‘Machine Tools’ – MuirMcNeil at TYPO Berlin 2014
May 1st, 2014We’re busy gearing up for our talk to TYPO Berlin at 7pm on Thursday May 15th in the main hall of the wonderfully named Haus der Kulturen der Welt (The House of World Cultures, AKA the ‘pregnant oyster’ to Berliners). We’re still dotting is and crossing ts but can reveal our theme will cover design […]
ThreeSix on Fonts in Use
April 29th, 2014Fonts in Use have featured FF ThreeSix in the signage graphics designed for Massey University’s Exposure 2011 exhibition by Thomas le Bas. Fonts in Use
Porto Design Summer School, 07 – 19 July 2014
April 9th, 2014The Porto Design Summer School Editorial Course is a unique opportunity to study graphic design within the setting of one of Europe’s oldest and most beautiful cities. Focusing on editorial design and typography, this intensive two week practice-based course also pays special attention to the city’s rare heritage in vintage shop signage and other forms […]
Weingart Typography, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, 07 May – 28 Sept 2014
April 7th, 2014This long awaited retrospective, which opens at the MfG in May, is the first major exhibition of Weingart’s work to be staged in Switzerland. At the boundaries of analogue and digital, his work still has profound significance. The photomechanical layering / montage techniques that Weingart developed culminated in a unique synthesis of type and image […]
ThreeSix 10 in use – Outcast Editions iBooks
April 7th, 2014Outcast Editions have newly published their single building architecture monographs as iBooks for iPad and Mac. FF ThreeSix 10 was selected as the typeface for these publications as it is particularly well-suited to retina screen display – its 8 subtly modulated weights which share the same central contour, allow for the optimisation of readability by […]
Design Factory – Thirty(ish)
April 5th, 2014MuirMcNeil’s contribution to Design Factory’s thirtieth anniversary publication launched by DF founder Conor Clarke at the ‘Thinking + Typography’ evening at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 03 April 2014. Typeset in Nine Mono 162 (outlined), the composition is driven by a simple system that overlays One – Ten; Eleven – Twenty; Twenty-one – Thirtyish on […]
From the archive – Nine Mono test
April 4th, 2014Poster for the autumn lecture programme at the LCC School of Design 2013 designed by MuirMcNeil – a pre-release live test for Nine Mono. Buy Nine Mono from MuirMcNeil
Rumori
March 12th, 2014Rumori is a typeface designed by Paul McNeil for a project by designers Paul Bailey and Yeb Wiersma. In February 2014, Bailey and Wiersma were commissioned to republish Luigi Russolo’s Futurist Manifesto ‘L’Arte dei Rumori’ on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. The new publication was planned as a procession of Russolo’s texts applied to […]
Thinking + Typography, Dublin
March 10th, 2014The Institute of Designers in Ireland presents an evening of talks on design thinking and typographic design by Paul Hughes (Ten Meters of Thinking) and Hamish Muir. 3rd April 2014, 18.30 Smock Alley Theatre Temple Bar Dublin IDI Ten Meters of Thinking Smock Alley
Interact updated by MuirMcNeil
February 6th, 2014Interact, designed by 8vo in 1994 for an invited submission to the American Center of Design ‘Interact’ CD-ROM, has now been extensively expanded and revised by MuirMcNeil. The Interact type system and a large-format silk-screened poster in 2 day-glo colours can be purchased from the MuirMcNeil online shop. Buy Now
