Hamish Muir
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Editorial Eye 94
Issue 94, Summer 2017
The notion that graphic design is fundamentally a creative business, a form…
Pleasure in the process
Issue 94, Summer 2017
Paul McNeil and Hamish Muir are graphic designers who construct typefaces through mathematics…
Is anybody out there reading?
Issue 9, Summer 1993
One of the features of Octavo magazine that made it so appealing to anyone…
8vo: type and structure
Issue 37, Autumn 2000
For fifteen years this UK practice has given typography a central place in graphic design
Recent blog posts by Hamish Muir
Pleasure in the poster
7 May 2019
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 unprecedented, unpredictable project: designing the 8000 variable data covers for Eye 94.
Type Tuesday: Film night
24 August 2018
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 cavalcade of short documentary films about type, lettering, design and printing culminating in the world premiere of Adrian Harrison’s 94 [8000 One-Offs].
A sunnier classroom
15 May 2017
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 students, from infant school to university, are grouped together according to their age and experience, writes Andrew Howard.
Chat show
11 October 2013
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 ‘dialogue’ to the stage, write Pam Bowman and Matt Edgar.
Destination design
8 July 2013
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 summer schools are using location as the starting point for design exploration writes Linda Kwon.