When I began work on this project, I had to start almost from scratch. It was a 128pg directory, with blue, white, and yellow pages (community, basic directory, business listings/ads). The previous format had no cohesiveness, each element competing with others on the page. I picked out a font family to use throughout the book, added the colors to differentiate the sections, re-designed or re-created the vast majority of the blue pages, typeset the white pages, designed some ads, and organized the yellow page ads and listings.
Then I designed the directory again the following year, but from a much better starting point.