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A graphic with a grey diagonal striped background. Bold, pixelated text reads “LCC SUMMER SHOWS 2015”.

Muir McNeil's typography-led LCC Summer Shows identity

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Date
27 April 2015

It’s Summer Shows-time again, and so we’re bracing ourselves for another slew of smart identity projects to go with them. Today, we present to you the work of MuirMcNeil, which has created the identity for the show at London College of Communication, where the duo teach. MuirMcNeil is comprised of Hamish Muir, lead tutor of BA Graphic and Media Design and Paul McNeil, course leader for MA Contemporary Typographic Media. Naturally, it’s a very typographic identity, and “confronts traditional letterform” according to LCC.

“As graphic designers who often employ a typographic approach, information hierarchy mediated in carefully structured ways has always been central in our design work,” says MuirMcNeil. “There are no mysteries in the systems we use – no traditional skills, trade secrets or black arts are employed. We are not type designers in this sense but graphic designers interested in developing processes, generating forms and systems to work with.”

A graphic composed of black dots of varying sizes on a white background. The dots are arranged to form the lowercase letters “at”.
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Muir McNeil: LCC Summer Shows identity 2015

A black and white graphic of two stylised characters on a dotted grid. The bold, blocky shapes are broken up by diagonal white stripes.
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Muir McNeil: LCC Summer Shows identity 2015

A typographic poster with a grey background divided into three textured sections. The top reads “LCC SUMMER SHOWS 2015”, followed by “SCHOOL OF MEDIA 05–11 JUNE” and “SCHOOL OF DESIGN 15–27 JUNE”.
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Muir McNeil: LCC Summer Shows identity 2015

Large, striped white lettering on a glass building facade reads “LCC SUMMER SHOWS 2013”. A few people stand and sit in the foreground on a paved plaza.
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Muir McNeil: LCC Summer Shows identity 2015

A digital illustration of the letters “A” and “E” formed from overlapping grey circles. The letters appear distorted, as if blurred or sliding across a grid of small dots.
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Muir McNeil: LCC Summer Shows identity 2015

A black and white abstract illustration of fragmented horizontal bars. The bars are arranged in a loose, organic shape against a background of a grey dot grid.
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Muir McNeil: LCC Summer Shows identity 2015

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Emily joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in the summer of 2014 after four years at Design Week. She is particularly interested in graphic design, branding and music. After working It's Nice That as both Online Editor and Deputy Editor, Emily left the company in 2016.

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