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.

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.

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.

International Civil Aviation Organisation meeting

Jock Kinneir travelled to Montreal to act as advisor to the UK delegate at the International Civil Aviation Organisation meeting.

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.

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.

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.

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…

“…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.

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…

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.