GAP YEAR JOURNALS
LifeLines is developing a range of new ideas including the production of Gap Year Journals. Imaginatively designed and colourfully bound, gap year journals make a wonderful present for a young person about to start university. A reminder in years to come of their youth well spent – perhaps!
POETRY
Many people have written poetry over the years, some want to produce them in a single anthology, others include their poetry, or the poetry of say a parent, or grandparent, as part of their memoirs.
In this edition, Memories of Childhood, the author ended the book with a selection of poems written by her grandfather, Isaac Winstanley, to her grandmother, Rosalind. To differentiate between the two texts, and to evoke a sense of the period and romance, we separated them with this dramatic picture, reversing the title in white.
This poet, Mike Courtenay, favoured a more traditional layout and included the poems in a book which combined the memoirs of himself and his wife, up to the date of their marriage.
Collections of letters
Tucked away in drawers in houses all over the country are bundles of wonderful letters, some going back generations. Why not have them printed and bound in a book? You could preface the letters with a short biography of the writer with one or two photographs. You may have copies of their birth or death certificates, or other memorabilia that could be photographed and included.
If there are only a few letters, that doesn’t matter. We have designed some charming little books, and bound them in cloth or leather. (See Design and Layout). This is a delightful way of making sure personal insights into your forbears are kept safe for future generations.