2024
Paper Harbour
A quarterly architecture magazine with no cover lines, set in a single typeface at five sizes.
Client
Paper Harbour Quarterly
Role
Editorial design, type system
Year
2024
Discipline
Editorial
Key colour
The brief
An independent magazine about buildings nobody else writes about: water towers, bus shelters, the concrete of the 1970s. The editors wanted it to feel like a field guide rather than a coffee-table object.
What we made
A strict editorial system: one serif, five sizes, a 12-column grid and photographs that are always full-bleed or not at all. There are no cover lines, just one building and the issue number. Long-form pieces open with a hand-drawn site plan by the writer.
Issue 07 was shortlisted for a European editorial design award, and the print run has tripled.
