Simon also edited and published Signature (typography journal). Subtitled a Quadrimestrial of typography and the graphic arts, Signature was published between 1935-1940 and 1946-1954 (new series). Printed by the Press, Signature featured original and formative graphic work and writings by relatively new artists such as Graham Sutherland, John Piper and Eric Ravilious. it has been said that ‘no journal can make a greater claim to have stimulated the taste that became Neo-Romanticism,’ Causey A. (2000), Paul Nash Writings on Art, Oxford University Press, p. 26. a term applied to the imaginative and often quite abstract landscape- based painting of Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, John Piper and others in the late 1930s and 1940s. It was Simon, though Signature, who published Sutherland's new style of painting first, and the first series provided a sustained support and exposure for certain artists, most notably Sutherland, Piper, Freedman, Ravilious and Bawden.Wells, N. (2022), Accidental Alchemy: Oliver Simon, Signature Magazine, and the rise of British Neo-Romantic Art, Unicorn Publishing. . p208
