We are always untranslatable
Scibbolet
Translation, graphic design, and editorial services.
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Translation
Literary, technical, and legal translations in dozens of languages, from and into Italian. It all starts with our native translators – carefully selected, and paired only with the projects that suit them best. Every translation undergoes internal review before reaching the client.
Graphic design
We manage design projects for publishers, corporate clients, and cultural institutions. Books, magazines, catalogues, brand identity, naming, financial statements, brochures, presentations, materials for events and trade shows, videos, and websites. Print and digital, from the first sketch to the print-ready file.
Publishing
We act as your external editorial team, overseeing every project from manuscript to final print-ready PDF. Content editing, line editing, drafting, proofreading, bibliographies, indexes, back matter, house style alignment. We also coordinate with authors, editors, and printers.
Contents
We nurture an idea through its entire life cycle: from conception (ghostwriting) and narration (storytelling), all the way to its multi-channel delivery (podcasts) and international reach (translation). Bringing the communication process full circle.
Bridging form and content iswhat we do
Scibbolet is an editorial studio founded in Rome in 2012. We use languages, graphics, and words to bring ideas and content to life. Our backgrounds are in newspaper editorial offices, publishing houses, and graphic design studios, and for over a decade we have been putting our experience at the service of publishers, companies, and institutions. We select a tailor-made team for every project: native translators, editors and journalists who work in the field, and graphic designers specializing in books and corporate publishing.
Alessandro Ciappa
Michele Zurlo
Marianna Matullo
Valentina Nicolì
Fabrizio Filipponi
Balance sheets, manuals, and catalogues may not be written in the same way as a book, but they demand the same care and precision. We assist companies and institutions in technical translation, manuals, content creation, and official documentation.
We localize texts and products into the languages and contexts in which they need to work. Websites, apps, advertising campaigns, translation review, cultural localization. We don’t just translate: we make sure your content sounds native, wherever it goes.
Three things we don’t do
Offer standard price lists
Every project has its own estimate. Since no two texts are the same, and no two graphic design projects are identical, there is no one-size-fits-all price. You pay for what you need.
Leave artificial intelligence to its own devices
An algorithm can help you do things faster, but it can’t understand, be intuitive, or decide. This is why, when we use AI, every text, translation, or graphic design project is looked over by an editor, a native speaker, or a graphic designer before it reaches the client.
Deliver without inspection and supervision
Before a text or graphic design project leaves our office, it is always proofread or checked by someone other than the person who wrote, translated, and conceived it. It’s an extra step, but we’re convinced it makes a crucial difference.
Our work
Books, translations, graphic design, logo design, brand identity, naming.
N. Chomsky
Resistere
Ponte alle Grazie
Progetto grafico e impaginazione
Bilancio aziendale
Patronato ACLI
R. Khalidi
Palestina
Editori Laterza
E. Todd
La sconfitta
dell’Occidente
Fazi Editore
Immortale parola.
Antologia della poesia italiana dalle origini ai giorni nostri
Crocetti Editore
Diabolik
Italia, che meraviglia!
Astorina