Creative direction · Human Potential Initiative

Human Potential editorial book

Sixty pages with a steady typographic voice.

Three cover studies for The Cosmology of Human Potential
Client
Human Potential Initiative
Role
Founder, Start Right; layout and production
Scope led
Book design system, typesetting, cover studies
Format
Sixty page proof, eight chapters

A long form book proof for the Human Potential Initiative, set from cover to back matter. I gave a dense subject a calm, repeatable structure across eight chapters, working with the author on what the structure had to carry.

Start Right project work for Human Potential Initiative. Layout and production by Will Mosley. Author: Joda Williams.

Chapter one opener spread

01

Chapter openers with a numeral.

Each chapter starts with an oversized coral CHAPTER and a tall numeral set behind the title. The device repeats eight times and signals every new section at a glance.

Chapter openers repeat the same numeral device

02

One device, eight times.

Across the book the opener never changes shape. Only the title and numeral move, so a reader always knows where a new idea begins. Holding that line is the discipline of long form work.

Dedication and interior reading pages

03

Quiet pages that carry weight.

Body pages use generous margins, spaced serif headings and coral panels for key passages. Images sit in fixed positions so the reading rhythm holds for sixty pages.

Up close

Typography that holds for sixty pages.

An oversized numeral sits behind every chapter title.
An oversized numeral sits behind every chapter title.
The lilac masthead holds. Only the image changes.
The lilac masthead holds. Only the image changes.
Coral panels hold the passages meant to be read slowly.
Coral panels hold the passages meant to be read slowly.

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