Celebrating a legendary law firm’s anniversary. 

I've worked with law firms over many years to produce marketing materials and websites, but in 2009 had the chance to design an anniversary book for the highly respected Chicago-based law firm Kirkland & Ellis, which was celebrating its one hundredth year in business. To honor the occasion, they wanted to tell their story with an elegant, 100-page coffee table book documenting not only their century of success, but their place in U.S. history, having argued some of the most important cases of the 20th century.

 

I designed a series of spreads that established the book's visual style, grid, color palette, typography, use of imagery, and overall tone, which included a timeline that ran across every page. 

 

I also designed a companion book containing the correspondence between the firm’s founders.