Jock designs cover of Sex in Society for Pelican Books

Words and Buildings

Words and Buildings: the art and practice of public lettering is published in London by The Architectural Press.

Typography in Britain Today

Exhibition of 37 designers organised by publisher Lund Humphries.

Joins Design Research Unit

Jock worked with Misha Black and Milner Gray at Design Research Unit through to 1956.

‘Pan African Railways’ brief to Royal College of Arts students

This important brief asks students to design a luggage-labelling system to be read by railway staff of multiple languages between South Africa and Egypt.

Captain Cook’s Florilegium published by the Lion and Unicorn Press

A printing press was established at the RCA in 1953. On arriving at the RCA in 1964 Jock Kinneir joined an already two year long project Captain Cooks Florilegium through to the final publication of its two issues in 1973.

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 …