The 1980 spread is where the book can become denser. The stats should be allowed to do real narrative work: not as decoration, but as evidence of early momentum.

With a small team and a growing income line, CDL starts to look less like an experiment and more like an operating company. The page should still feel measured, with the figures set large and the prose held back.

Editorially, this is a useful place to connect the intimacy of the founding years with the discipline needed to serve a specialist market.