New typeface release – Cut Square
November 8th, 2020Cut Square is a straight-edged variant of MuirMcNeil Cut, a stencil type family based on the forms of neoclassical typefaces produced in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Cut Square Cut
New typeface release – Diode
November 3rd, 2020Diode is the second modular geometric type system produced by MuirMcNeil in collaboration with Natasha Lucas. The Diode project is a further product of visual experiments examining the interdependence of positive and negative spaces in typographic form, first explored by Lucas in her Bisect typeface system published by MMcN in 2018. Diode type system Bisect […]
New typeface release – Interlock
April 24th, 2020Interlock is a geometric bitmap type system in four variant styles, each in six weights. MuirMcNeil’s Interlock typefaces are designed to interact in layers with one another and with corresponding sets of rectangular background grids. Interlock Type System
New typeface release – TwoBar Mono
April 15th, 2020TwoBar Mono is a monolinear, monospaced type system in nine weights. A robust and efficient typeface for text and display applications, TwoBar Mono is also compatible with MuirMcNeil’s TwoPoint, TwoPlus and TwoBit type families. TwoBar Mono Type System
Cut in use – Lulumelon Manifesto
April 14th, 2020Pentagram’s Eddie Opara has developed a dynamic typographic setting for the manifesto of Lululemon, the activewear and lifestyle brand. Used in a range of applications from apparel to environmental graphics, the manifesto features a variety of contemporary typefaces including MuirMcNeil Cut. Pentagram
Type Directory
November 26th, 2019A large number of MuirMcNeil typefaces are featured in Peter Dawson’s Type Directory (Thames & Hudson), a comprehensive sourcebook published in 2019 that details and classifies over 1,800 historical and contemporary typefaces. Type Directory
Visual Engineering Talks
November 9th, 2019MuirMcNeil will be lecturing at Elisva, Barcelona on 20 November 2019, and delivering a keynote at 10ET Matoshinos (Porto) on November 22. Both talks will focus on MMcN’s systematic and algorithmic approaches to typographic form generation, in both type design and applied typography. Elisva 10th Typography Meeting, Matoshinos
Demo Festival, Amsterdam CS, 07 November 2019
November 8th, 2019MuirMcNeil’s submission to the Demo Festival – 6 thirty-second animations – each showing the first sixty Fibonacci numbers typeset in fonts from MMcN’s Two+TwoPlus Type Systems. The festival, a 24-hour takeover of 80 HD advertising screens across Amsterdam Central Station, was organised by Studio Dumbar and featured over 250 motion designers from across the globe. Demo […]
Pan’s trip to the Moon
September 18th, 2019Pan & The Dream is an art and style magazine that invites artists, designers, photographers and writers to contribute to a theme chosen for each issue. The large format publication is produced in loose bound sheets contained in a numbered case. For its third issue, Pan’s trip to the Moon, designer Jeanette Birdy chose MuirMcNeil’s […]
Analog Algorithm
July 15th, 2019MuirMcNeil’s THD Sentient type family has been used as the typeface in Christoph Grünberger’s Analog Algorithm, published by Lars Müller in 2019. Both a workbook and a source of inspiration, this publication provides a toolkit for form-giving that is analogue, algorithmic and experimental. Analog Algorithm
