A comprehensive editorial design system for Harappa Publications — translating long-form content across books, courses, and editorial publications into structured, readable narratives, supported by a consistent visual and illustration language across print and digital formats.
75 Thrive Skills — the complete publication series. Each book cover demonstrates the typographic and color system consistently applied across the full publication ecosystem, with the yellow brand foundation and systematic numbering creating immediate series recognition.
Interior spread — "Powerful Storytelling" chapter layout demonstrating the grid system, typographic hierarchy, and mixed-media illustration integration. The editorial framework balances dense content with visual breathing room and clear navigation.
Framework overview — the complete "Wisdom That Inspires Us" spread showing how the Thrive Skills taxonomy (Think, Solve, Communicate, Collaborate, Lead) is systematically presented within the editorial grid system.
"Think" spread — demonstrating the editorial system's approach to mixed-media collage integration. Greyscale portrait photography combined with yellow geometric elements and comprehensive skill listings, maintaining visual hierarchy across content-dense layouts.
Motivational typography — "Do One Thing Every Day That Grows You" spread demonstrating how the editorial system handles large-scale type treatment while maintaining the established grid logic and brand color integration.
Chapter opener — "Attention" section showing the system's approach to minimalist page layouts. The hand-pulling illustration demonstrates how custom artwork integrates within the editorial framework while maintaining visual consistency.
System flexibility — the editorial framework applied to different content types and publication formats, showing how the grid system, typography, and color logic scale across varying content densities and layout requirements.
Illustration integration — close view of how custom mixed-media illustrations and collage elements are systematically integrated within the editorial grid, creating visual interest while maintaining readability and information hierarchy.
Marketing video — frame from the promotional video created to support the 75 Thrive Skills publication launch. The project extended beyond editorial design to include motion graphics and marketing collateral, demonstrating the system's adaptability across media formats.
Cover design — the complete book cover demonstrating how the editorial system's typographic and color logic extends to external presentation. The embossed "GROWS" treatment and systematic numbering create a recognizable publication series that works both individually and as a collection.
Editorial design at its best is invisible — the reader moves through content without noticing the system holding it together.
— Design approach, Editorial Design & Publishing System, Harappa Publications, 2022
Reviewing Harappa's existing published output across formats — identifying structural inconsistencies, understanding the range of content types in production, and establishing the system logic the editorial framework needed to address. Determining what was shared across all formats versus what needed format-specific rules.
Building the core editorial infrastructure — the grid system, typographic hierarchy, and spacing logic that would govern how content sat on the page across print and digital contexts. Designing for dense long-form text as the primary use case, with clear navigation structures for chapter openers, pull quotes, captions, and callout elements.
Developing the rules for how Harappa's mixed-media illustrations were integrated into editorial layouts — scale, placement, bleed treatment, relationship to text columns. Ensuring the illustration language and the editorial system reinforced each other rather than competing, and that the integration logic could be applied consistently by production teams.
Adapting the editorial system across formats — print book production, course materials, digital editorial content, and the Independence Day publication — each requiring specific production preparation. Producing the marketing video for the Independence Day book launch, extending the project's scope from print publishing into motion content.
Designing for books and long-form publications is fundamentally different from campaign, deck, or interface work — it requires thinking about sustained reading experience across hundreds of pages, print production constraints, and the relationship between text density and visual breathing room. This project demonstrates that specific discipline at scale.
Building a single editorial system that held coherently across print books, digital course materials, and editorial publications — each with different aspect ratios, production requirements, and reading contexts — is a systems design challenge as much as a visual one. The ability to design a system flexible enough to adapt without losing its character is what makes it valuable at production scale.
The Independence Day book project extended this engagement beyond print into a marketing video — demonstrating the ability to work across disciplines within a single project. For organisations looking for designers who can carry a content initiative from editorial concept through to motion delivery, this signals genuine range without the need for multiple specialists.
Open to senior in-house roles, design consultancy partnerships, and long-term freelance or retainer engagements — particularly within Europe.