The Consilience Project

The Consilience Project publishes novel research at the leading edges of global risk mitigation, governance design and culture. Their content explores the key challenges and existential threats facing humanity, and the underlying problems with current approaches for addressing them. The project is a publication of the Civilization Research Institute, a charitable think tank focused on reducing systemic fragility and advancing new forms of governance and coordination. The content published is for any individual, group or institution trying to innovate around global coordination challenges, catastrophic risks and social technologies. The primary aim of the project and indeed the articles published is to clarify and reveal the nature of the metacrisis (interlocking, interrelated problems) and enable comprehensive solutions to global problems.

A comprehensive identity system was designed to align with with the concept of closure, one of the six Gestalt design principals. The logo with its cut-out sections, collage illustrations, and layered imagery, are all a part of this system. Applied across web, social media and print the identity is designed to further increase out ability to sense make. That is visually and conceptually bridge gaps, close loops, read between lines, question and uncover layers of content.

The website, which publishes and archives the Project’s writing, was designed as a central resource for readers. It allows free access to research that would ordinarily be behind a paywall. Readers can bookmark, comment and make notes on articles after making a profile. With each article published we created a triptych of illustrations, designed to break up the long form articles. The illustrations are all deliberately made using collage and three dimensional forms, to further tie in with the identity’s Gestalt principle origins.