The Design Museum has added a motorway sign to its collection. So is British road signage a design classic? There is very little to like about motorway journeys. Endless black tarmac, blurry white ...

This year, the British road signage system is having a significant birthday. It’s been 50 years since Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert designed the familiar circle, triangle and rectangle road signs ...

On 1 January 1965 the British road signage system, created by Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir, came into law. In the 50 years since its launch, the road signage system has come to be seen as one of ...

ONE hundred years ago, at the end of 1904, local people woke up to find workmen busy placing posts and signs in various places around Basingstoke. Over the following days, holes were dug and signs ...

If you think about it, traffic signs should be invisible. Not see-through invisible, but intuitively invisible; if they work like they’re supposed to, you won't even realize you're using them. That ...

Tucson has a myriad of street-sign designs, and in this case, variety is not the spice of life. Most of the city's 1,300 street signs are legible, but they're inconsistent. There are the old ...