Fluid Identity

TypeCon, the annual convention of the American Society of Typographic Aficionados, is one of the largest and most significant events in the international design calendar. For its 2016 conference in Seattle, MuirMcNeil was invited to design the visual identity.
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In response to the title of the event, Resound, our solution was to produce a modular visual system that would have both impact and coherence across a wide range of applications. Working with a deliberately restricted palette of typographic forms and colours, we developed an extensive series of visual hierarchies that varied as the result of differences in textual content. In individual applications, separate levels of information were emphasized or diminished as required within predefined constraints.
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The visual system was generated using two parametric typefaces and corresponding background panels developed specifically for the project – TwoPoint H and Two Line – which are now part of the Two Type System
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The result of their implementation for TypeCon 2016 was a flexible but instantly recognisable identity whose bright colours, clean geometries and ambiguous relationships of form and counterform playfully engaged with notions of legibility and taste while also reflecting on the modular foundations of traditional and contemporary typographic form-giving.
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Poster Printed offset litho in black and neon green 89x60cm

Very few copies remaining in our shop
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Programme. Printed offset litho in black and neon green. 254x110mm.
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Desktop clock using 66 fonts from the MuirMcNeil Two Type System. In two precisely registered layers, fonts for time, date, and background panels are programmed to change randomly every minute. With layer colours reversing for am and pm, this results in 8,712 possible overlay combinations.
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Conference presentation title frames at the Amazon Doppler Tower, Seattle WA
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Intermission video.
The timing of frame motion for text elements, foreground and background panels is programmed in increments proportionate to the dot pitch for each font size used. As a result, the animation is a product of the text content itself.

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Desktop and lock screen
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Conference gobo
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Conference goodies: delegate and volunteer T-shirts, tote bag, postcards, stickers and badges
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Process
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