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Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century History
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Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century History

by Richard Poulin
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1 pages
10h 27m
English
Rockport Publishers
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THE POSTWAR WORLD 1950–2000III
MODERNISM AND THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE 1950–19796
JOCK KINNEIR, MARGARET CALVERT, AND
THE BRITISH TRAVELER
BRITISH ROADWAY SIGN SYSTEM
United Kingdom
Kinneir, Calvert & Associates (est. 1964), Designers
London, United Kingdom
1957
Born in 1917, Richard “Jock” Kinneir (1917–
1994) was a British typographer and graphic
designer who, with his colleague Margaret Cal-
vert (b. 1936), were the first graphic designers,
rather than civic engineers or road surveyors,
to design cohesive national graphic systems for
roadway and railway signs that are still used
today throughout the United Kingdom.
Kinneir studied engraving at the ...
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