TypeCon 2016 Clock App
August 29th, 2016MuirMcNeil have designed a clock for TypeCon 2016 using 9 typefaces / 66 fonts from MuirMcNeil’s TwoPoint and TwoPlus type systems. In two precisely registered layers, fonts for time, date, and background panels are programmed to change randomly each minute. With layer colours reversing for am and pm, this results in a possible 8,712 overlay […]
TypeCon 2016 Animation
August 28th, 2016Our animation for TypeCon 2016 explores the potential of the modular construction of MuirMcNeil’s TwoPoint and TwoPlus type systems in formulating a layered information environment which evokes a glitched LCD display system. In this context, and to adapt the typographic approach used across the static elements of the identity to motion graphics, a set of […]
Paul McNeil to speak at TypeCon:2016
August 10th, 2016Typography in the Search for Perfect Language 4.10pm, Saturday, August 27 The history of the human endeavour to perfect language by means of design can be traced across many cultures, although most attempts to achieve it have been as quixotic as they are utopian. In his talk at TypeCon 2016, Paul McNeil will look at […]
TypeCon 2016. Inside the ‘Resound’ identity
April 9th, 2016Some background on our identity design for TypeCon 2016. typecon.com/archives
Three Six in use – TYPO Labs identity
March 17th, 2016The identity for the first TYPO Labs font technology conference, an offshoot of TYPO Berlin, has been designed by Alexander Roth for FontFont using MuirMcNeil’s FF ThreeSix 30 type system. FF ThreeSix TYPO Labs 2016
TypeCon 2016
March 16th, 2016MuirMcNeil have been invited by the Society of Typographic Aficionados to design the identity for TypeCon:2016 ‘Resound’ to be held in Seattle, WA, from 24–28 August. Here’s a small preview of our identity design – more to follow soon. Society of Typographic Aficionados TypeCon:2016
LCC Postgraduate Shows 2015
October 30th, 2015The directional offsets used in our identity for LCC Postgraduate Shows 2015 (see below) form the basis of animated GIFs for screen-based applications – the example shown here is for use on LCC’s flat screen information display system.
LCC Postgraduate Shows 2015
October 30th, 2015External signage, part of our identity for London College of Communication Postgraduate Shows 2015, has just been installed on site at the Elephant & Castle. The core of the identity is built from two of the bespoke modular typefaces created for LCC Summer Shows, offset by the same interval in four directions (up/left; down/left; down/right; […]
TwoPoint in use – Russell Haswell
October 28th, 2015To accompany the poster we designed for Russell Haswell’s Mini-Fest at Cafe Oto, London, we have developed this animated GIF with MuirMcNeil TwoPoint C for use in announcing the event on Twitter. Russell Haswell Cafe Oto
ThreeSix in use – 1974 Clock
September 12th, 2015Designed by Chris Jackson and Nick Kapica, the ‘1974’ clock is made from 3mm ABS with custom 3D printed hands. The numerals 1; 9; 7; 4, which are part of the clock face, use MuirMcNeil’s FF ThreeSix 31. The typeface was chosen by the designers ‘for its geometric clarity and its visual similarity to the […]
