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 Long Reads

• 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

• Words and buildings – the art and practice of public lettering, 1980. The Print Arkive
• Transportation Graphics: Where Am I Going? How Do I Get There? MOMA, 23 October, 1967 (audio)
• Beginnings of the Jock Kinneir Library AIGI, 2017

Margaret Calvert

• Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work, 2026. Initially crowd-funded by Volume, published by Unit Editions, then published by Thames & Hudson
• RCA article, 2012
• Design Council interview and video
• Foundation Press, 2024 interview and zine
• ‘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, October 2019
• ‘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.
• Mike Dempsey interview for RDI, 13 July 2015 (For audio click ‘RDInsights’)

Friends

• St Brides Foundation Library
• New Rail Alphabet Margaret Calvert and Henrik Kubel
• New Transport Margaret Calvert and Henrik Kubel
• Festival of Britain: The Design Council’s Archive on the Festival of Britain and 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)