Summer 2024
Chance can be a fine thing
System Process Form
Designed and written by Paul McNeil and Hamish Muir. Typefaces: MMcN Two Type System, MMcN Sans Sans. Unit Editions, £75, $95
‘An exploration of 7,762,392 typefaces’, an additional subtitle for this tome, sets the scene for what is to come. System Process Form continues with a quote from Anni Albers in 1958: ‘The conscientious designer does not himself design at all but rather gives the object-to-be a chance to design itself.’ MuirMcNeil’s book sets out to explore variations on their Two Type System, a seemingly infinite collection of modular, geometric typography. As their website states, their activities are focused, ‘on exploring systematic and algorithmic methods in type design, graphic design and moving image’. This book seems to be a perfect illustration of their practice.
It starts off by simply showing the variations of the modular type …
Jim Sutherland, designer, London
Read the full version in Eye no. 106 vol. 27, 2024
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