About

Kinds Of is a publishing and design system that makes the world�s classifications visible again. Across every domain � from the natural world to human culture, from objects to ideas � people have spent centuries naming, comparing, and organizing what they know. These systems of understanding already exist all around us, yet they remain hidden in libraries, archives, and databases. Kinds Of collects and reimagines them, transforming knowledge from something abstract into something you can see, explore, and own.

We begin from a simple conviction: knowledge is beautiful. The shape of a taxonomy � its branches, its relationships, its language � tells a story about how humans perceive the world. When that structure is designed clearly and rendered beautifully, it invites everyone, not just specialists, to take part in it. We believe access is not only a matter of permission, but of presentation � that how knowledge looks determines how widely it can be understood.

This is why Kinds Of approaches data as design material. We treat classification not as an academic record, but as a visual medium � something that can be composed, printed, shared, and lived with. Each taxonomy we publish becomes an artifact: a poster, a grid, or a living page that reveals the order within complexity. By visualizing the architecture of knowledge, we make it tangible and human again.

What makes this newly possible is artificial intelligence.
AI allows us to collect, reconcile, and render thousands of existing systems at a scale no human team could sustain. It lets us preserve the authority of original sources while giving them new life through pattern recognition, language synthesis, and generative design. We use AI not to invent new knowledge, but to reveal what already exists � faster, more faithfully, and more beautifully than before.

Over time, Kinds Of will grow into a living atlas of human understanding � a continuously expanding archive of how people have organized the world. Each new taxonomy, each rendered poster, becomes part of a greater system that connects disciplines, cultures, and histories. Through this work, we aim to restore a sense of wonder to information itself: showing that knowledge, when seen clearly, is not only useful � it is profoundly beautiful.