Paul McNeil is a typographic designer, author and educator, formerly Course Leader of the MA Contemporary Typographic Media at the London College of Communication. Seven years in the making, The Visual History of Type, McNeil’s exhaustive survey of type design from 1450–2015, was published in 2017. In 2009, with Hamish Muir, he co-founded MuirMcNeil, a design practice whose activities are focussed on exploring systematic methods in graphic design, type design and moving image.
