Margaret Calvert OBE
President's Award Recipient — 2015
Profile
About
Typographer and graphic designer Margaret Calvert is perhaps best known for her work on the UK’s road signs, as well as the Transport lettering she designed in partnership with Jock Kinneir. Her first design job came while studying at Chelsea College of Art where Kinneir, her tutor, approached her to create signs for Gatwick Airport. Later, Kinneir would hire her to design a pictogram system for UK signage, with some of the icons based on Calvert’s own memories of her family’s farm. Calvert, who has been described as “the mother of modern-day information design”, has also designed several typefaces for Monotype.
About
Typographer and graphic designer Margaret Calvert is perhaps best known for her work on the UK’s road signs, as well as the Transport lettering she designed in partnership with Jock Kinneir. Her first design job came while studying at Chelsea College of Art where Kinneir, her tutor, approached her to create signs for Gatwick Airport. Later, Kinneir would hire her to design a pictogram system for UK signage, with some of the icons based on Calvert’s own memories of her family’s farm. Calvert, who has been described as “the mother of modern-day information design”, has also designed several typefaces for Monotype.
D&AD achievements
- Participation
- President's Award Recipient — 2015
- Participation
- President's Award Recipient — 2015