National Heritage Board

Mapping Heritage
Project Detail

Heritage is only as alive as the stories told about it. For the National Heritage Board’s Heritage Education Highlights 2018, Leap was tasked with designing a publication that does exactly that — making Singapore’s cultural institutions feel inviting, navigable, and relevant to students and educators alike.

Spanning seven institutions and multiple audience tiers, the catalogue required a design system capable of handling significant content complexity without sacrificing clarity. A tiered colour-coding scheme — from pre-school programmes through to tertiary and all-ages offerings — gives each section its own visual identity while maintaining cohesion across the whole. Edge-tab navigation ensures readers land exactly where they need to be.

The cover’s hand-drawn architectural illustrations quietly set the tone: these are not just buildings, but living repositories of collective memory. Every layout decision served a single purpose — to lower the barrier between a student and their heritage.