Hamish Muir: Graphic Designer/Founding Principal 8vo/Editor Octavo

Teaching:

Lead Tutor Information Design
BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design
School of Graphic Design
London College of Communication (formerly the LCP)

Visiting Lecturer
International Masters Program in Visual Communication
Basel School of Design Switzerland

Design/Writing
Recent Projects

Design:

Current Project
Tephra

Developed with Dalton Maag, Tephra is a new type family based on the lower-case typeface designed at 8vo in 1994, for interact, a special issue of the American Center for Design Journal and later used for the 1997 Flux New Music Festival poster series.

The original type has been extended and updated to include full upper- and lower-case character sets, numerals, punctuation and European accents. Tephra is available in OpenType Format, as a family of six fonts; solid and five related outline versions – Tephra 0; Tephra 12; Tephra 50; Tephra 100; Tephra 138; Tephra 250.

To promote Tephra, a series of six prints designed by Hamish Muir has been produced in a limited edition of 50 sets. Format 100 x 70 cm, 2-colour silkscreen – a common base colour overprinted with a different colour metallic ink for each of the six designs.

Prints can be bought from the Dalton Maag web site.

Design:

Detail in Contemporary Domestic Architecture

Laurence King, London
2007

Design/Writing:

8vo On the outside

Lars Müller Publishers
2005

‘On the outside’ surveys 8vo’s work from 1984–2001, including Octavo, the international journal of typography and its influence in the emergent typographically-led design movement in the UK and internationally during the late 1980s and through the 1990s. The emphasis is on process: trying to reveal how 8vo’s design got made rather than simply showing finished jobs. A number of hand-made and computer generated stage by stage mock-ups are featured. Written and designed by Mark Holt and Hamish Muir, two of the founding principals of 8vo, the story’s told how it was – the everyday struggles of working with clients, typesetters, printers, and later on computers. Like many of their contemporaries, 8vo were working during a period of considerable change within the design industry – the book places 8vo’s work within the context of this revolution; from paste-up to desktop.