A graduation present about the three years, not the hat
There is no mortarboard in this catalogue and no rolled-up scroll, and that is on purpose. A cover drawn for one afternoon in a gown reads as fancy dress by the following spring, and this is a notebook meant to be carried into a first job and still used two jobs later. So the covers here are about the years themselves: the city they lived in, a sentence they will want on a bad Tuesday, or their name set as though they had always been somebody whose name goes on things.
- The best is yet to come£17.99
- Your place, mappedAny place on earth drawn as a map, marked with a symbol, its name and coordinates beneath and a line of your own under that.£17.99
- Your sky, chartedThe exact night sky above any place on earth, on any date, drawn as a chart across the cover, place and date beneath.£17.99
- A poem for themTell us about them (their dogs, their hills, whatever makes them them) and we write a short poem for the cover.£17.99
- Your own words£17.99
- Empowering quotesOne line about getting on with it, shuffled from a bank of fifty-odd or written yourself, set large across the cover.£17.99
- Be BoldOne line built from three words (Be Brave. Be Kind. Be Bold.) that you shuffle or write yourself, initials in the corner.£17.99
- Famous quotesA line worth keeping and the name of whoever wrote it, shuffled from sixty-odd out of copyright, or written yourself.£17.99
- Dictionary definition£17.99
- Name and monogram£17.99
- Property of£17.99
- Portrait and caption£17.99
The year, and the name under it
The best is yet to come was made for exactly this day. The promise takes the largest type on the cover, a heading sits beneath it and initials sit at the foot, and that heading is a field you type into: it toggles between Chapter and Vol., and the number in it may be a year rather than an age. If even that is more occasion than they would like, two of these refuse the subject entirely. Name and monogram cuts the initials large with the full name beneath, and Property of says the book belongs to them and nothing else whatsoever.
The city they spent them in
Three years somewhere leaves a deeper mark than the certificate does. The map takes any place on earth, a city, a street or a campus, draws it with a symbol marking the spot, and sets the name and coordinates beneath. The sky chart takes a place and a date and draws the exact night above it, which for a graduation means the evening it was all finally over. The portrait cover wants a photograph where the face fills the frame. All three are drawn on screen before you pay, so a street that turns out to be a disappointing shape costs nothing to discover.
A sentence for the bad Tuesdays
The rest is about what the cover says. Be Bold builds one line out of three words that each begin with Be, shuffled from a bank you can type straight over. The empowering quotes cover does the same with whole lines about getting on with it, and neither is attributed to anybody, so nothing gets misquoted into leather. Famous quotes is the version for a borrowed sentence, drawn only from work that is out of copyright, and your own words takes any sentence you have. A poem can be written about them from a few things you tell us, then rewritten line by line until it sounds like you. And the dictionary entry defines whatever word you choose and leaves the meaning to you.
A ceremony is a fixed date and nothing here exists until somebody orders it, so the fortnight before is comfortable and the morning of is not. If you are handing it over at the reception yourself, allow longer. There is no delivery date on this page, because each carrier publishes its own every year. How long making, dispatch and delivery take is set out on Delivery and returns.