Resources
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)