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.
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.
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.
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.
To generate covers for fifty-four titles across six instruments which comprise the London College of Music Examinations guitar handbooks, MuirMcNeil used the instrument names to create a series of multi-layered typographic compositions, using fonts from the MMcN Two System. These compositions, modified by a colour palette specific to each instrument, were then zoomed and cropped to produce a one-off cover design for each printed copy of the handbooks.
2019 LCME Guitar Handbook Covers
Published in cooperation with Eye Magazine, MuirMcNeil have generated 100 unique posters (format 70 x 50 cm) from the ten typographic fields originally designed for Eye 94’s 8,000 variable data front covers. Buyers will receive a one-off poster selected randomly from a series of their choice.
Marnich Associates, Barcelona has showcased MuirMcNeil’s TwoStroke type in a black-and-white 2019 desk calendar for the paper manufacturer Guarro Casas. Wladimir Marnich has been showcasing MuirMcNeil typefaces on Guarro Casas calendars since 2015. TwoStroke is part of MuirMcNeil’s extensive Two type system.
Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen are marking the 10th anniversary of the founding of Bold Monday with the release of an EP. MuirMcNeil were delighted to be asked to design the sleeve. Type: Capibara from Bold Monday.
Poster for TypeCon 2016, pp476 ‘The History of Graphic Design Vol.2, 1960–Today’ by Jens Müller / Julius Widemann (Ed), 480pp, Taschen, 2018.
MuirMcNeil’s generative design for the cover of Eye 94 is featured in the 4th edition of Graphic Style: From Victorian to Hipster (Abrams), Steven Heller and Seymour Chwast’s seminal survey of the history of graphic design. Ironically, the authors have categorised The Eye 94 design under the heading “Hipster: Neo-Expresionism”, the antithesis of everything our work stands for.
