‘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.

Jock Kinneir begins teaching Graphic Design at the RCA as Head of Department

In the Summer of 1964 Anthony Froshaug leaves the Royal College of Art and Richard Guyatt of the School of Graphic design contacts Jock Kinneir, 46. He swiftly steps from Senior Tutor to Head of Department, four days a week.

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.

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 …