Margaret Calvert becomes Jock Kinneir’s assistant

After being asked to develop signage for Gatwick Airport, Jock asks his graduating Chelsea student Margaret Calvert to be his assistant.

Kinneir Calvert Associates forms

Kinneir Associates becomes Kinneir Calvert Associates with Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir becoming business partners, continuing their practice from 3 Old Barrack Yard, London.

Kinneir begins work on signage for Gatwick Airport

Through a conversation at a bus stop with one of the architects working on Gatwick Airport, Jock secured a project which was to define his practice.

Typography in Britain Today

Exhibition of 37 designers organised by publisher Lund Humphries.

“…he had a quite up-to-date modernness”

Junior designer Andrew Haig joins Kinneir Calvert Associates. Here he describes Jock’s thinking, day-to-day studio life and working with the team.

Kinneir Calvert Tuhill formed

Soon after graduating, 1969 RCA graduate David Tuhill joined the firm.

Begins teaching at Chelsea School of Art

A part-time role through to 1958. Here he meets Margaret Calvert who is studying illustration.

Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines – the visual treatment for a new town

Kinneir Calvert Associates were invited to propose a holistic approach towards the identity and visual treatment for a new French city south of Paris, Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines

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…

Colophon

Published by: Anna & Simon Kinneir (Amsterdam, NL; London, UK) First site: 11 February 2017, updated 21 May 2017 Second site: September 2019 Editor: Simon Kinneir, London Website design: Simon Kin…

UK’s first full length motorway opens

Jock and Margaret drive down what is an empty Preston Bypass admiring the first set of full size signs in situ.

P&O-Orient Lines Luggage Labels

After seeing their work for Gatwick, Colin Anderson of P&O asks Jock to develop a suite of labels to be read by people of different languages and levels of literacy around the world.

Information

The Library was launched on 11th February 2017, 100 years after Jock Kinneir’s birth. For a comprehensive introduction to Jock Kinneir’s life, work, and teaching, please read his biography by Robin Ki…

Biography

Among the founding figures of graphic design in Britain, Jock Kinneir was both typical and exceptional. Like other designers of this generation he went through art school, started out as a commercial …

Graphic design workshop at the Aarhus School of Architecture

Jock Kinneir runs a one-time workshop ‘Information in the Environment’ to students of multiple courses. Peter Gyllan describes switching from Industrial to Graphic Design after taking part.