Octavo and 8vo: More Client than Clients
Octavo and 8vo: More Client than Clients
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Location
Date
Description
2 October 2018
7.00pm – 9.00pm
Mark Holt and Hamish Muir will discuss Octavo and its relationship to 8vo’s commissioned work. The talk will focus on the synergies and tensions between the studio’s two areas of activity in the context of 8vo’s continuing programme of exploration in typographically-based approaches to graphic design. The talk will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Adrian Shaughnessy, with Mark Holt and Hamish Muir and special guests to be confirmed shortly.
Mark and Hamish will also be signing copies of Unit Editions’ ‘Octavo Redux’ which will be on sale at the event. (Cost: £75.00 with 10% of all sales donated to St Bride Library.) For more information about the book please visit: https://uniteditions.com/products/octavo-redux-1-1-a-record-of-octavo-journal-of-typography-1986-1992
8vo, 1985–2001
‘Octavo’, journal of typography, 1986–92
Mark Holt and Hamish Muir were co-founders, with Simon Johnston, of the influential London-based design studio 8vo. The shared objective was to use type as the central component of the studio's output, eschewing big ideas and all things British. By the late eighties, the studio’s work for clients in the UK, Europe and the US was highly acclaimed internationally for its innovative approach to typographically-based visual communication. The studio’s reputation was heightened by ‘Octavo’, journal of typography, in a designed to self-destruct series of eight issues, self-published between 1986 and 1992.
Since 8vo’s closure in 2001, Mark Holt has helped steer Nokia's global brand harmonisation (2003–5), co-founded ‘better thinking’, a sustainabilty consultancy trying to convince brands to become ‘good guys’ (2005–10), and since 2016 has been working on a book about the visual output of Otl Aicher’s Munich ’72 design team (Dept. XI), which he hopes to self-publish in 2019.
In 2009, Hamish Muir co-founded MuirMcNeil Design Systems with Paul McNeil. MuirMcNeil’s work focusses on exploring parametric and algorithmic approaches to typographic form and visual systems – in the generation of typeface designs and their subsequent application in visual communication projects, both in self-initiated work and in professional commissions.
Holt and Muir have joined forces on the writing, editing and design of two books about 8vo/Octavo: ‘8vo: On the Outside’, published by Lars Müller (2005) and more recently they collaborated with Unit Editions to produce ‘Octavo Redux 1:1. A record of Octavo, international journal of typography, 1986–1992’ (2017).
Organiser
Established in 1891 with a clear social and cultural purpose, St Bride Foundation is one of London’s hidden gems.
Housed in a beautiful Grade II listed Victorian building, St Bride Foundation was originally set up to serve the burgeoning print and publishing trade of nearby Fleet Street, and is now finding a new contemporary audience of designers, printmakers and typographers who come to enjoy a regular programme of design events and workshops.
Many thousands of books, printing-related periodicals and physical objects are at the heart of St Bride Library. Volumes on the history of printing, typography, newspaper design and paper-making jostle for space alongside one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of type specimens. The printed, written, carved and cast word may be found at St Bride in its myriad forms. Architectural lettering and examples of applied typography in many media, together with substantial collections of steel punches and casting matrices for metal types are also held in this eclectic collection. The Reading Room is open to visitors twice a month and on other days by appointment. Although we operate on a cost-neutral basis, it is necessary to charge for some of our services. Details are available by emailing the library team at library@sbf.org.uk.
St Bride retains many of its original features, including the baths, laundry, printing rooms and library. As part of the Foundation’s original mission to provide for the community, many of the building’s unique and characterful spaces are available to hire whether for meetings, weddings or classes.
St Bride also houses the popular Bridewell Theatre, and Bridewell Bar (once the laundry), and hosts a year-round programme of plays, comedy, music and exhibitions.
With some 65,000 visitors a year St Bride Foundation is a major London hub for the creative arts in London. We look forward to welcoming you soon.
Venue
St Bride Foundation, Bride Lane 14, EC4Y 8EQ London
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Octavo and 8vo: More Client than Clients
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