Kanso Index — 2024
A small team publishing like a large one
Cadence beats craft while nobody is reading you yet.
- Client
- Kanso Index
- Discipline
- Editorial Strategy & Design Systems
- Sector
- Research
- Year
- 2024
The brief, honestly
Overview
Sharp thinking, invisible presentation, and nine authors each formatting their own work. The infrastructure we built let them publish four times as often without the tone drifting.
The problem
Original research read as internal documents, so nobody cited it.
“Infrastructure is what makes taste repeatable.
The insight the work turned on
The system
One typographic scale, four layout templates, and a written rule for when breaking them is allowed.
How it was made
We designed for the worst case: a rushed author, at midnight, with no designer available. Everything else got easier from there.
What we delivered
- Editorial system
- Template library
- Voice guide
What changed
- 4x publishing cadence
- One voice across nine authors
- Citations by three journals
A publication is a promise about frequency before it is one about quality.
A problemworth solvingproperly?
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