OVERVIEW
Liminal Gallery is delighted to present ‘Roadworks’, an exhibition by renowned graphic designer Margaret Calvert, best known for her work with Jock Kinneir on the design of a radical new road signing system for the UK, initiated in 1965.
‘Roadworks’ exhibits work that is both serious and playful.She is also responsible for designing ‘Calvert’, used to sign the Tyne and Wear Metro, which opened in 1980, and more recently Rail Alphabet 2, in collaboration with Henrik Kubel, for Network Rail, which will be implemented across all Network Rail Stations and architectural publications. With a career spanning several decades, her work in the public domain is often seen to shape the Country’s visual identity. Calvert was made a Royal Designer for Industry in 2011, and awarded an OBE for services to Road Safety and Typography.
ARTWORKS
Margaret Calvert - 20mph
£300.00
Margaret Calvert - Cattle
£850.00
Margaret Calvert - Illuminate
£500.00
Margaret Calvert - Wild Animals
£850.00
MARGARET CALVERT
Margaret Calvert OBE RDI (born 1936) is a British typographer and graphic designer who, with colleague Jock Kinneir, designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies, and British Overseas Territories. She also designed typefaces including the Transport font used on road signs, the Rail Alphabet font used on the British railway system and Calvert font used on Tyne and Wear Metro system. The typeface developed by Kinneir and Calvert was further developed into New Transport and used for the single domain GOV.UK website in the United Kingdom. Alongside these projects, Calvert taught at the Royal College of Art for almost 40 years and was head of graphics from 1987 to 1991.
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