24-4-2020
New typeface release – Interlock

Interlock 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



15-4-2020
New typeface release – TwoBar Mono

TwoBar 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



14-4-2020
Cut in use – Lulumelon Manifesto

Pentagram’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



26-11-2019
Type Directory

A 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



19-11-2019
‘Share’ exhibition

Curated by Andy Campbell of Norwich School Art and Design, ‘Share’ is an exhibition which brings together the work of five UK design studios: A Practice for Everyday Life, Spin, Graphic Thought Facility, North and MuirMcNeil. MMcN are showing a wall of test prints for the Eye 94 poster series in the exhibition. Crypt Gallery, Norwich School, 18–30 November 2019.

Andy Campbell talks to Creative Review about staging the Share exhibition



9-11-2019
Visual Engineering Talks

MuirMcNeil 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

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8-11-2019
Demo Festival, Amsterdam CS, 07 November 2019

MuirMcNeil’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 Festival
Studio Dumbar

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18-9-2019
Pan’s trip to the Moon

Pan & 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 Stem Light for the publication’s titles and headlines throughout.

Pan & The Dream



15-7-2019
Analog Algorithm

MuirMcNeil’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



30-6-2019
iDAF 2019

The International Digital Art Festival, took place in Manchester, UK, 26–27 June, 2019. MMcN were invited to submit work for the festival’s Digital Art gallery featuring HD projections and 4K display screens.

iDAF Festival

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