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Margaret Calvert, the Glossary

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British typographers and type designers
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Arts University Bournemouth

Arts University Bournemouth (abbreviated AUB) is a further and higher education university based in Poole, England, specialising in art, performance, design, and media.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC iPlayer

BBC iPlayer (stylised as iPLAYER or BBC iPLAYER) is a video on demand service from the BBC.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.

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The British Overseas Territories (BOTs) are the 14 territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom that, while not forming part of the United Kingdom itself, are part of its sovereign territory.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997.

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Chelsea College of Arts

The Chelsea College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, a public art university in London, England.

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Crown Dependencies

The Crown Dependencies are three offshore island territories in the British Islands that are self-governing possessions of the British Crown: the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey, both located in the English Channel and together known as the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland.

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Darcey Bussell

Dame Darcey Andrea Bussell, (born Marnie Mercedes Darcey Pemberton Crittle; (27 April 1969) is a retired English ballerina and a former judge on the BBC television dance contest Strictly Come Dancing. Trained at the Arts Educational School and the Royal Ballet School, Bussell began her professional career at Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet.

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Design and Art Direction

Design and Art Direction (D&AD), formerly known as British Design and Art Direction, is a British educational organisation that was created in 1962 to promote excellence in design and advertising.

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Design Museum

The Design Museum in Kensington, London, England, exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design.

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Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.

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Edgar Wright

Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English filmmaker.

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Font

In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface.

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Gatwick Airport

London Gatwick, also known as Gatwick Airport, is the secondary international airport serving London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom.

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Gov.uk

gov.uk (styled on the site as GOV.UK) is a United Kingdom public sector information website, created by the Government Digital Service to provide a single point of access to HM Government services.

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Graphic designer

A graphic designer is a professional who practices the discipline of graphic design, either within companies or organizations or independently.

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Haymarket Metro station

Haymarket is a Tyne and Wear Metro station, serving the Haymarket area of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Jenny Beavan

Jenny Beavan (born 1950) is an English costume designer. Margaret Calvert and Jenny Beavan are Royal Designers for Industry.

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Jock Kinneir

Richard "Jock" Kinneir (11 February 1917 – 23 August 1994) was a British typographer and graphic designer who, with his colleague Margaret Calvert, designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies, and British overseas territories. Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir are British graphic designers and British typographers and type designers.

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Margaret Calvert

Margaret Vivienne Calvert (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, as well as the Transport font used on road signs, the Rail Alphabet font used on the British railway system, and an early version of the signs used in airports. Margaret Calvert and Margaret Calvert are British designers, British graphic designers, British typographers and type designers, British women graphic designers, history of transport in the Isle of Man, history of transport in the United Kingdom, People educated at St Paul's Girls' School, Royal Designers for Industry, South African emigrants to the United Kingdom, South African graphic designers and Women graphic designers.

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Monotype Imaging

Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., founded as Lanston Monotype Machine Company in 1887 in Philadelphia by Tolbert Lanston, is an American (historically Anglo-American) company that specializes in digital typesetting and typeface design for use with consumer electronics devices.

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Motorway (typeface)

Motorway is a sans-serif typeface designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for use on the motorway network of the United Kingdom.

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National Health Service

The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales.

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Opel Insignia

The Opel Insignia is a large family car (D-segment in Europe) developed and produced by the German car manufacturer Opel from 2008 to 2022.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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P&O

P&O (in full, The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company) was a British shipping and logistics company dating from the early 19th century.

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Pictogram

A pictogram (also pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto) is a graphical symbol that conveys meaning through its visual resemblance to a physical object.

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Rail Alphabet

Rail Alphabet is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert for signage on the British Rail network.

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Rail transport in Great Britain

The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest railway system in the world.

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Road signs in the United Kingdom

Road signs in the United Kingdom and in its associated Crown dependencies and overseas territories conform broadly to European design norms, though a number of signs are unique: direction signs omit European route numbers, and road signs generally use the imperial system of units (miles and yards), unlike the rest of Europe (kilometres and metres). Margaret Calvert and road signs in the United Kingdom are history of transport in the Isle of Man and history of transport in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Calvert

Also known as Calvert (typeface), Margaret Vivienne Calvert.

Margaret Calvert, the Glossary

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See also

British typographers and type designers

British women graphic designers

History of transport in the Isle of Man

History of transport in the United Kingdom

South African graphic designers

Women graphic designers

References