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Design for Translate Swiss Books, a platform for Swiss literature

Pro Helvetia is the Swiss Arts Council. We worked on the design of Translate Swiss Books, its platform for contemporary Swiss literature.

Results

Platform
WordPress
Scope
Design
Live since
2020
Client
Pro Helvetia
Industry
Culture
Duration
Project
Services
Design

The brief

Pro Helvetia awards grants for translations of contemporary literary works from Switzerland. Translate Swiss Books presents those books to publishers and translators, so Swiss authors reach readers at home and abroad.

What we did

We worked on the design of a new site inside the Pro Helvetia multisite: the book pages, the lists and the blocks editors use to build pages.

Translate Swiss Books on a laptop and a tablet

Books are easy to find through a filter and categories, and the layouts work on every screen size.

The introduction and the book list of Translate Swiss Books

Simon sketching layouts in a notebook next to the Translate Swiss Books site

How it went

The site has been live since 2020. Editors run it with the same tools as the rest of the Pro Helvetia sites.

Translate Swiss Books on three phones