“The highlight was – and is – seeing it teeter on that edge,” the designers add on this careful balance between positive and negative space. With a hint of the optical illusion about it, Diode rests somewhere between abstract and legible, in the liminal space intersecting communication and interpretation. Their projects address specific aspects of this, and Diode, the modular geometric type system created in collaboration with Natasha, is no exception.ĭeveloped into three versions (one positive and two negative) and in three sets of individual letter component fonts designed to register precisely with one another in layers, Diode offers its user an immense range of visual interactions.
Meanwhile, Hamish – who is also co-founder of design studio 8vo and co-editor of Octavo – says he loves working in this medium, “because type, at a certain level, is as close as design can get to pure abstraction, with no defined values, messages or intentions.” MuirMcNeil’s projects are unique, as the pair classify themselves not so much as type designers but as “graphic designers who make type as a way of exploring the possible connections between the form of text and language”. Paul – a designer, author and former MA course leader of Contemporary Typographic Media at London College of Communication – describes the appeal of type and how it communicates: “The constant, beautiful friction between its function as a carrier of language and as an autonomous system of graphic marks.” Hamish and Paul met originally when teaching together on various design workshops and quickly discerned a mutual interest. “I find it fascinating to explore ‘incomplete’ letterforms that verge on the abstract, yet preserve the qualities of alphabetic letters,” Natasha tells us. Google Ads Service uses this cookie to collect information about from multiple websites for retargeting ads.What can we understand from language when the conventional structure of a letter is manipulated? The subject has long interested the designer Natasha Lucas, most recently in her latest project, Diode, developed collaboratively with MuirMcNeil, the collaborative practice of Hamish Muir and Paul McNeil. This cookie can only be read from the domain they are set on and will not track any data while browsing through other sites. The _gads cookie, set by Google, is stored under DoubleClick domain and tracks the number of times users see an advert, measures the success of the campaign and calculates its revenue. The test_cookie is set by and is used to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns.
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