Schwimmen/Schweben by Jaqueline Scheiber

Austrian author Jaqueline Scheiber, who made her fiction debut with the novel Dreimeterdreißig, returns to the essay form with Schwimmen/Schweben (“Swimming/Floating”) – a lucid, empowering meditation on the courage to embrace change and the liberating power of swimming.

Sellerie Studio, again responsible for the book’s complete design, translated these themes into a strong typographic concept: titles and chapter openings float across the page, with subtly distorted letterforms as if refracted through water. As in the earlier novel, they use a combination of the phospho typefaces Antipol and Gyst, complemented by Baskerville for the body text. The two publications are further linked by a recurring two-color palette of deep blue and pink.