Table of Contents Inspiration and analysis

The table of contents isn't really bound by a precedent of my theme, it's usually purely aesthetic

I will be using this example from The Smithsonian as my main inspiration.

My organization will go like this:
Make body identity and short kings into half pages on the same page before the two page spread

Table of contents will be the first left page

grid format with hierarchy dependent on size with short descriptions, similar to this Smithsonian table of contents.