A curated list of external further reading. While these links are interesting; some include factual errors. We don’t list these mistakes – instead the Jock Kinneir Library exists to ensure there is a place that endeavours to provide correct information.

Road Sign and Motorway Sign Design

• Baines, P. (1999) A design (to sign roads by) London: Eye no. 34 vol. 9
• Kinross, R. (2002) Unjustified texts: perspectives on typography London: Hyphen Press
• Lund, O. (2003) The public debate on Jock Kinneir’s road sign alphabet Typography Papers vol. 5. pages 103–126
• BBC documentary The Secret Life of the Motorway

Jock Kinneir

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (audio)
• The Design Council’s Archive on the Festival of Britain

Margaret Calvert

• RCA Interview
• The Time of the Signs Phil Baines interviews Margaret for Frieze magazine.
• Britain’s signature John Walters, as editor of Eye, interviews Margaret and Henrik Kubel about digitising Brit Rail into New Rail.
• It’s Nice That Interview
• ‘Margaret Calvert: Woman At Work’, Design Museum, London, 2020–2021. With ‘virtual experience’ walk through and video walk through.
• The Type Director’s Club
• The One Club 2024 Inductee, and showreel.

Friends

• St Brides Foundation Library
• New Rail Alphabet Margaret Calvert and Henrik Kubel
• New Transport Margaret Calvert and Henrik Kubel
• The University of Brighton Design Archives

Viewable Work

• Design Museum, London
• St. Brides Foundation, London
• The Postal Museum, London
• Central Saint Martins Central Lettering Record, London
• 10 Ham Farm Road, Ham, London (Designed by Kinneir around 1960)
• Hope House, Winderton, Oxfordshire (Designed and built by Kinneir around 1980)