Hamish Muir

Recent articles about Hamish Muir

Chance can be a fine thing

Issue 106, Summer 2024

Review

MuirMcNeil’s book sets out to explore variations on a seemingly infinite collection of modular, geometric typography.

Editorial Eye 94

Issue 94, Summer 2017

Opinion

The notion that graphic design is fundamentally a creative business, a form of art undertaken…

Pleasure in the process

Issue 94, Summer 2017

Feature

Paul McNeil and Hamish Muir are graphic designers who construct typefaces through mathematics, systems and experimentation, pushing hard at the boundaries of alphabetic form

Is anybody out there reading?

Issue 9, Summer 1993

Review

One of the features of Octavo magazine that made it so appealing to anyone who…

8vo: type and structure

Issue 37, Autumn 2000

Feature

For fifteen years this UK practice has given typography a central place in graphic design

Recent blog posts about Hamish Muir

Graphic design live #16

24 May 2024
Graphic design, Events and exhibitions

New exhibition by Onomatopee in Eindhoven; ‘Collection Insights’ at Museum für Gestaltung; The Vinyl Factory in London; Typographics 2024 in NYC; and ‘Now You See Us’ at Tate Britain

Current and upcoming events that have piqued our interest: exhibitions, conferences, talks and workshops …

Pleasure in the poster

7 May 2019
Graphic design, New media, Posters, Technology, Typography

Hamish Muir and Paul McNeil have made a series of one-off variable data posters based on the seed files used for their famous Eye 94 cover
Back in 2017, designers Hamish Muir and Paul McNeil collaborated with Eye magazine on an…

Type Tuesday: Film night

24 August 2018
Design education, Graphic design, Magazines, Technology, Type Tuesday, Typography

Join us on 4 Sept 2018 for an evening of shorts about type, lettering, design and printing, inc. the premiere of our documentary about Eye 94
Our next Type Tuesday evening at St Bride Library will be a ‘Film night’, featuring…

A sunnier classroom

15 May 2017
Book design, Design education, Graphic design, Typography

When the world is in flux, book design offers ‘a refuge of certainty’. Andrew Howard explains why he founded the Porto Design Summer School
There is a particularity about the education system which we take as given – that…

Chat show

11 October 2013
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Typography, Visual culture

Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar report from day one of the AGI Open conference in London, where the theme was ‘dialogue’
London’s AGI Open set out to shun the standard conference show-and-tell format, and to bring…

Destination design

8 July 2013
Book design, Design education, Graphic design, Information design

Several quite different summer schools take design education to Portugal, Lithuania and Sicily
Summer presents a chance to explore new destinations and starting this month, a number of…