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Offshore Studio is a Zurich-based design studio, founded by Isabel Seiffert and Christoph Miler. Their projects have a strong focus on editorial design, typography and storytelling. Next to commissions and collaborations, Offshore Studio investigates critical issues of design, media and globalisation in self-initiated projects.
The design practice of Offshore Studio reflects the fundamental idea of ‘Offshoring’—the relocation of working processes to other cities, countries and continents. Going offshore means to elude closed territories and start to connect elsewhere. Driven by the aim to explore the remote, unknown and invisible, being and thinking offshore embodies one of the studios’ key principles. In doing so, their modes of production become inevitably collaborative, transnational and decentralized, questioning the traditional boundaries of space, time and professions.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch for commissions or collaboration requests.
→ heaven@offshorestudio.ch
Note: We are currently not offering internships in our studio, and will not be able to respond to all requests. Nevertheless, if you would like to share your work with us, feel free to send a PDF or URL by email.
Geroldstrasse 31/33CH-8005 Zurich
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
2017
Swiss Design Awards, Nominee
2017
TDC Tokyo 2017, selected as a work of ‚excellence‘
2016
German Design Award Nominee 2017
2016
Graphic Design Festival Scotland, Shortlist Poster Competition
2016
Österreichischer Staatspreis 2015
2016
Bronze Medal ‘Most beautiful books from all over the world’
2015
Most Beautiful Books from Austria
2015
Type Directors Club New York 61 in Communication Design
2015
Graphic Design Festival Scotland, Shortlist Poster Competition
2015
100 Beste Plakate 14
2014
German Design Award Newcomer Nominee 2015
LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
2018
Professional Amateurs’, Lecture at It's a Book, HGB Leipzig
2018
Future Archive of the last humans’, Workshop Zurich University of the Arts
2017
Lecture at HGK, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel
2017
Lecture at F+F Schule für Kunst und Design, Zurich
2017
Keynote on Migrant Journal at The Modern Magazine, London
2017
Keynote on Migrant Journal at Indiecon, Hamburg
2017
Lecture at Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
2017
Lecture and workshop at IDEP Barcelona
2017
Talk at Ligature Connections 8 in Lausanne
2016
Lecture Zurich University of the Arts, Fubu
2016
Lecture Zurich University of the Arts, Reality Check, Master of Arts in Design
2016
Semester launch lecture, Master of Arts in Design, University of the Arts Berne
2016
External judge, class of Andreas Uebele. HSD Duesseldorf
2016
Lecture FH Dortmund, Germany
2016
Reading at Corner College Zurich, Switzerland
2016
Lecture at HfG Karlsruhe, Germany
2015
Soirée graphique, Berne, Switzerland
2015
Lecture Paperness, Stuttgart, Germany
2015
Workshop ‘Zinetific’. Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany
EXHIBITIONS
2018
Natural Capital (Modal Alam), Brussels
2017
Swiss Design Awards in Basel
2016
umlaut‘‘ Gallery, London, UK. Migrant Journal – Maps on Migration
2016
Depot Basel, Switzerland. MigrantJournal – Maps on Migration
2016
Decima X, London, UK. Migrant Journal Symposium
2015
Festival for young literature Freiburg, Nowhere Men
2014
Not the End of Print, Book Launch, Projektraum LOTTE, Stuttgart, German
2014
Netzpolitik Daily, Projektraum LOTTE. Stuttgart, Germany
SELECTED PRESS
- It’s Nice That
- Monocle
- Eye on Design
- Ligature.ch
- ZEIT Magazin
- Shoplifters 4
- Wallpaper+ Magazine
- Form Magazin
- Slanted
- Arcademi
- Novum
- I Love Type Series
- Design Everywhere
- This is Paper