One report, twenty-one designs
One real report set in twenty-one finished designs, so a client can choose a look by laying the covers side by side instead of trying to describe one.
finished design positions, every one rendering the same content - editorial magazine, luxury fashion, technical blueprint, financial terminal, brutalist, statutory instrument, Swiss international, newspaper broadsheet, risograph, Bauhaus and eleven more.
What was done
One content module is pushed through twenty-one stylesheets from a single build script. The words and the figures are held constant; only type, palette, grid and page furniture change.
The library exists because of a specific failure. An earlier five-design study shipped with four of the five covers sharing one composition skeleton - masthead strip, stacked headline, standfirst, facts row. Different type, different palette, the same document. At cover level they were recolours, and nobody noticed until they were laid side by side.
There is now a binding rule: no two covers may share a composition skeleton, and every cover must either carry content in its middle third or make its emptiness deliberate through symmetry and a frame.