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.

Anderson Committee forms to look at Motorway signage

Behind the pace of Europe, particularly Germany’s Autobahns, the UK needs to start building motorways, and these require signage.

Street Name Signs, Design magazine 195

In March 1965, Design magazine published a feature investigating the need to redesign local street names and house numbering following the redesign of Britain’s motorway signage. In the second of a tw…

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…

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 …

Transportation Graphics: Where Am I Going? How Do I Get There?

A 1967 symposium on Transportation Graphics at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, invited Jock Kinneir to present. We can now accompany the magazine Dot Zero’s publication on it with the original audio recording.

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.

“…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.