Channel Ident

チャンネル・イデント / 1982– / Motion / Broadcast Design

The broadcaster's face: its logo set in motion for a few seconds. Lambie-Nairn's flying blocks for Channel 4 became the origin of CG idents and broadcast branding.

A complete film in seconds / The logo dimensionalized and transformed / A repeating motif / The channel's character personified

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Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type
Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition
Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material
Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution
Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
Further study
the Channel 4 blocks, 1982 / BBC Two's '2' series, 1991 / the British lineage of ident culture

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