Celebrating history in the 21st century

We designed and built an immersive anniversary experience that transformed two centuries of publishing history into an engaging digital story.

Celebrate HarperCollins’ legacy while reinforcing its continued relevance as an innovative, forward-looking publisher. Create a memorable experience that invited audiences to explore the company’s authors, milestones, and cultural impact.

The project required bringing a large and varied archive of content together into a cohesive experience that felt both historical and contemporary. We developed a visual system that balanced literary heritage with digital confidence, pairing typewriter-inspired typography with a refined modern sans-serif and using bold color to organize the site’s five main sections. Our focus was to create a structure that encouraged exploration, kept visitors engaged, and reflected HarperCollins’ evolution from a 200-year-old publisher into a modern media brand.

The site gave visitors an accessible, interactive way to explore HarperCollins’ history through key milestones, author stories, a rich timeline, and a curated collection of 200 iconic book covers. The experience helped translate a major corporate anniversary into a compelling public-facing platform and was nominated for a Webby Award in the Corporate Communications category.