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Way to go: the woman who invented Britain’s road signs

7 mins | May 28, 2017
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In the 1960s, Margaret Calvert designed an entirely new signage system for the UK’s roads. Homa Khaleeli writing in The Guardian finds out who Calvert did “possibly the biggest design job ever” – and why she is still haunted by it. While also discovering what graphic design meant, before the term existed.

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