An interview with MuirMcNeil in GRAPHIC #37
September 15th, 2016The Summer 2016 issue of this quarterly journal discusses approaches to computation in contemporary design practice. GRAPHIC #37 also includes interviews with A2/SW/HK, Adrian Shaughnessy, Andrew LeClair, Andrew Blauvelt, Benedikt Groß, Catalogtree, Ellen Lupton, Erik van Blokland, Frederike Huygen, Hansje van Halem, Jonathan Puckey, Jürg Lehni, Ken Frederick, LUST and Rob Giampietro. GRAPHIC #37 is […]
FF ThreeSix featured in MoMA 2016 Appointment Calendar
September 2nd, 2016The Original Champions of Design agency have included MuirMcNeil’s FF ThreeSix in their design for the Museum of Modern Art 2016 desk calendar. For each week, a typeface selected by OCD is featured opposite typographic work from the Museum’s collection – in the case of ThreeSix, a cover from Wolfgang Weingart’s ‘Typographic Process’, volume 1971-2.
MuirMcNeil Show at TypeCon 2016
August 30th, 2016An exhibition of our typographic work took place during the annual TypeCon convention in Seattle WA from the 24th to 28th August 2016. Thanks to the generous support of Monotype, most of the MuirMcNeil typeface systems were presented in the form of posters along with a few designs still in development. A limited edition of […]
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.
