Eightvo

Eightvo.co.uk

About this site
This is a dedicated site to the work of the 8vo, it is an unofficial 8vo site and has no input from any of the members, but if they would like to input any information that would be great.

I personally have be inspired by their work ever since I first saw a full set of Octavo’s at the LCP library back in 1993.

I hope you enjoy this site.

David Bennett
This-Studio

The Font
Tephra
Designed by Hamish Muir and developed with Dalton Maag, Tephra is a new font family based on the lower-case typeface designed by 8vo in 1994, for interact, a special issue of the American Center for Design Journal and later used for the 1997 Flux New Music Festival poster series.

Release date January 2008, for more information please visit
www.hamishmuir.com

8vo
92.8
CD Rom

Eye Review
The process is the premium
http://www.eyemagazine.com/review.php?id=130&rid=627

The Book
On the outside surveys 8vo’s work from 1984–2001, including Octavo, the international journal of typography and its influence in the emergent typographically-led design movement in the UK and internationally during the late 1980s and through the 1990s.

Written and designed by Mark Holt and Hamish Muir, two of the founding principals of 8vo, the story’s told it how it was – the everyday struggles of working with clients, typesetters, printers, and later on computers. Like many of their contemporaries, 8vo were working during a period of considerable change within the design industry – the book places 8vo’s work within the context of this revolution; from paste-up to desktop.

16 x 12 cm
536 pages
395 Illustrations
Hardcover
Lars Müller Publishers

8vo
8vo were a British graphic design company founded in 1984 by Mark Holt, Simon Johnston and Hamish Muir.

During their time they designed and produced some of the UK's most exciting graphic design, including the series of typographic journals called Octavo, in which Michael Burke was invited to be an associate of the studio and a co-editor of Octavo magazine.