Independent designer
Type, grid, and the discipline to stop.
Editorial and identity work for cultural institutions, publishers and the occasional software company that wants to look like neither.
Projects
2023 — 2026
Biennale Catalogue
Editorial · 2025384 pages, four languages, one grid. Set in Lyon and Suisse across a spread that had to survive translation.
Peak & Pine
Identity · 2024Wordmark, packaging and a typographic system for an outfitter that sells almost nothing online.
Quarterly Review
Editorial · 2024A quarterly essay journal redesigned around one typeface and a very stubborn baseline grid.
Process
How the work actually runs
- 1
Research
Read the archive, the back issues, the constitution. Whatever the institution actually is.
- 2
Grid
Set the structure before a single word is placed. Everything downstream depends on it.
- 3
Typeset
Draw it at real size, printed, on the paper it will actually be printed on.
- 4
Release
Files, specimens and a written rationale, so the next designer inherits reasoning rather than guesses.
48
Projects since 2017
3
D&AD pencils
1
Designer, no studio
12wk
Average project
“Sofia redrew the grid four times before she showed us anything. The fourth one we've now used across every publication for two years.”
Alex Moreau
Publisher, Quarterly Review
Selected clients
Who the work was for
Before you get in touch
Do you work with software companies?
Occasionally, when they want to look like a publisher rather than a startup. If you want the current SaaS look I am the wrong choice.
What does a project cost?
Editorial work is quoted by extent and complexity; identity starts at 18,000 euro. I quote fixed and I do not bill hourly.
Will you design a website?
Type-led sites, yes, working with a developer I have used for years. Applications and dashboards, no.
Do you deliver files?
Open source files, specimens and a written rationale for the decisions, so whoever inherits the work inherits the reasoning too.
Commissions open for autumn.
Editorial, identity and type-led digital work. Send a brief, however rough.