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Sketches for New Transport, 2012
New Transport is a digital adaptation of Transport, designed by Calvert in collaboration with Kubel. Calvert works by hand using a pencil, always tackling the character 'a' first. New Transport was designed in seven weights, with corresponding italics and small capitals.
Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work
(May - August 2021)
With a career spanning six decades, graphic designer Margaret Calvert has produced timeless work that we see everywhere — often without realising it. Whether it is the design of the UK’s road signing system, with Jock Kinneir, wayfinding at railway stations and airports, or the typeface used on the gov.uk website, with Henrik Kubel, her work shapes much of our national visual identity.
This display marks the launch of Network Rail’s new customised typeface, Rail Alphabet 2, designed by her in close collaboration with Henrik Kubel in response to a new wayfinding system at Network Rail stations designed by Spaceagency. It will eventually be used in combination with a suite of bespoke pictograms to sign Network Rail’s stations, and as a text face for all their key built environment design publications.
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British Rail Corporate Identity Manual, 1965
Rail Alphabet formed one of the 'Basic Elements' of British Rail's new identity, which was meticulously documented in manuals designed by Design Research Unit.
Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work
(May - August 2021)
With a career spanning six decades, graphic designer Margaret Calvert has produced timeless work that we see everywhere — often without realising it. Whether it is the design of the UK’s road signing system, with Jock Kinneir, wayfinding at railway stations and airports, or the typeface used on the gov.uk website, with Henrik Kubel, her work shapes much of our national visual identity.
This display marks the launch of Network Rail’s new customised typeface, Rail Alphabet 2, designed by her in close collaboration with Henrik Kubel in response to a new wayfinding system at Network Rail stations designed by Spaceagency. It will eventually be used in combination with a suite of bespoke pictograms to sign Network Rail’s stations, and as a text face for all their key built environment design publications.
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The nearer portion is a loose take on Monet but to the right is a dark doorway to the Xinjiang dugout where Ai Weiwei had to live with his exiled father in the 1960s.
Indre By | Bredgade
The Danish Museum of Art & Design is a museum for Danish and international design and crafts.
The ticket desk office.
Rail Alphabet 2
Rail Alphabet and the Design Research Unit's corporate identity remained in use by British Rail until the re-privatisation of the railways in the early 1990s. The new companies promoted their own individual commercial identities. Today, Britain's railway infrastructure is owned and operated by publicly owned Network Rail. It has embarked on a system-wide reassessment of its graphic identify, with the aim of creating a coherent approach throughout the stations that it controls.
Calvert and Kubel were commissioned in 2019/20 to design for this purpose a customised typeface that related to the original Rail Alphabet. The result was Rail Alphabet 2. Unlike any of Calvert's previous work, this letterform was designed specifically for both use on signing systems and as a digital text face. The typeface has a special weight for signs, and three weights with italics for Network Rail publications.
Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work
(May - August 2021)
With a career spanning six decades, graphic designer Margaret Calvert has produced timeless work that we see everywhere — often without realising it. Whether it is the design of the UK’s road signing system, with Jock Kinneir, wayfinding at railway stations and airports, or the typeface used on the gov.uk website, with Henrik Kubel, her work shapes much of our national visual identity.
This display marks the launch of Network Rail’s new customised typeface, Rail Alphabet 2, designed by her in close collaboration with Henrik Kubel in response to a new wayfinding system at Network Rail stations designed by Spaceagency. It will eventually be used in combination with a suite of bespoke pictograms to sign Network Rail’s stations, and as a text face for all their key built environment design publications.
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Taken in the Design Museum
New premises in what used to be the Commonwealth Center. I wrote about it here: medium.com/@fjordaan/londons-new-design-museum-b9f9d1b5c17d