Editorial design by Remo A. Wyss containing his results from the Signs and Symbols seminar at the University of the Arts Zurich (Visual Communication) led by Offshore Studio.

From the original briefing:

Read your poem from the book Spells: 21st-Century Occult Poetry and transform words and phrases of your choice into new symbols. Those symbols should represent the sensual experiences that are excluded by these words (how does a tree smell, how does a rock feel, how does a river taste, how does fire behave?). Try to consider the specific sensuous characterstics of these things and processes you look at and avoid stereotypical and human-centred representations. Design a coherent visual language. Later on, combine and connect symbols in order to create new poetic meanings. Layout your poem with the symbols you have designed and create an overview of your character set.

About Twin:

Twin is a hardback biannual magazine which showcases disobedient, rebellious and visionary creative voices through art and cultural features. These are published alongside freshly commissioned fashion photography from the likes of Ben Weller, Cass Bird, Stef Mitchell and Boo George, featuring models such as Freja Beha Erichsen, Dree Hemingway, Hanne Gaby and Christina Kruse.

Fiercely independent since it was launched in 2009, Twin is a not for profit endeavour founded and headed up by ex-Lula magazine creative director Becky Smith, produced through collaboration with a passionate team of international editors including art editor Francesca Gavin, features director India Doyle, fashion editor Naomi Miller and contributing editor Isabella Davey.

Alias Harbour is used for headline text, and paired with Aperçu Mono and Brandon Grotesque for captions, and a yet unidentified sans serif.

A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates, as published by 4th Estate:

Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women’s reproductive rights and a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead.

(...) A heart-rending reckoning with some of the most incendiary issues that divide us in our troubled times – religious extremism; abortion; gun violence; capital punishment – this is a novel Joyce Carol Oates was born to write. To read it is to encounter the full spectrum of humanity – its ugliness, misery, beauty and hope.

Harbour is used in all caps for titles and author’s name, and – slanted – for the quote on the top right, paired with a yet unidentified serif.

A photography book curated and edited by Erik Kessels. The publication explores the volume of imagery that we encounter in our daily lives. The plastic cover, the weight of the glossy paper and the size of the book remind of a manual — Anna Kiosse

Alias Harbour is used for cover title and text.

Poster using Harbour for a club night with JD Twitch at The Poetry Club, Glasgow. See also the So Low album cover, also using Harbour.