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Bespoke covers inside a brand frame
Illustration gives each subject a face while the system keeps the family together.
Dais Reports
An editorial system for complex policy.
- Organization
- The Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University (In-house designer)
- Role
- Lead visual direction for an ongoing suite of research publications
- Scope
- Cover illustration, multi-page layout, typographic hierarchy, grids, illustration style, print and digital
- Design outcome
- One editorial system across 17 published reports
Overview
At The Dais, I lead the visual direction for a suite of research publications. I have designed many of them, and I treat each report as a complete editorial system: a bespoke cover illustration, a multi-page layout, and typographic and grid rules that make long-form research easier to read.
Click a cover to read the full report
123Risky Business cover. The same frame holds every report.
On the cover
- The cover frameA white title band with the title, subtitle and date sits above a full-bleed illustration. It never changes, so every report reads as a Dais report at a glance.
- The illustration layerEach report gets its own illustration and palette, a new face for each subject inside one consistent style.
- Date and labelsA small pink accent line carries the date and labels, a constant across every cover.
Key design decisions
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Hierarchy and grids for long documents
Structure does the navigating so the reader doesn’t have to.
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Information design for findings
Charts and key-findings pages turn data into something scannable.
What the work supported
37policy reports published, 2023 to 2026
3.8B+media reach across 4,800+ articles
200+citations and references
13policy briefs and government submissions
These are the Dais’ results; the reports are the vehicle that carries them. Source: Dais Impact Report 2023–26.
Reports I designed
- The Art in Artificial Intelligence
- Banking on AI
- Submission to the Consultation on Canada’s Renewed AI Strategy
- Survey of Online Harms in Canada 2025
- Survey of Online Harms in Canada 2024
- Survey of Online Harms in Canada 2023
- Human or AI?
- Right Brain, Left Brain, AI Brain
- From Potential to Performance: Roundtable Report
- Building Democratic Resilience to Foreign Disinformation in Canada
- Toronto’s Digital Divide
- Summary of the Dais Talks on Anti-Racism
- Submission on the Proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act
- Built to Scale? Microcredentials Use Among Digital Professionals
- Mind the Gap: Compensation Disparity Between Canadian and American Technology Workers
- Changing Lanes: Understanding the Motivations of Ontario Students
- Risky Business: The Cyber and Sociotechnical Security Threats of Crypto-Asset Trading