Tag Archives: Channel 4

2010 ➤ Index of posts for October

Birth of electro-pop, synth-pop,Makers, Gentry, Spandau Ballet

Feb 1978: The Makers, one day to be Spandau Ballet. Photographed by Gill Davies

➢ Classics of 80s graffiti revived by campaigning collective in New York

➢ Final spin confirmed for the Technics 1200, the DJ’s top turntable

➢ On this day in 1980 Spandau fired the starting gun for British clubland’s pop hopefuls: dada didi daaa!

➢ A second squadron of high-octane British artists zaps the Saatchi space

➢ Facebook may well be the mother of all networks but one man needs to check his maths

➢ Cool 21st-century branding for Channel 4, but when will it junk those clunky Bladerunner idents?

➢ A step up in the world for graffitist Eine, thanks to Potus and lady friends who shop in high places

Molly Parkin, John Timbers

In her heyday: Molly aged 29 at her first art exhibition. Photographed © by John Timbers

➢ Miss Parkin regrets that she said no to Cary… and can’t wait to meet Orson, Lee and Walter

➢ How Keith Richards’s life of debauchery became an inexplicable sign of alien invasion at The Times

➢ 30 years ago today: First survey of their private worlds as the new young trigger a generation gap

➢ 2011: Sade comes home to tour UK but even a cheap seat will cost you £158 !

➢ 1980: The day Spandau signed on the line and changed the sound of British pop

➢ 1980: Rik and pals detonate a timebomb beneath another kind of strip for Soho

➢ 1976: When Iain met Stephen, London traffic stopped and St Martin’s stood still

➢ Britain’s top hatter, Stephen Jones OBE, celebrates 30 years of Jonesmanship

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➤ Cool 21st-century branding for Channel 4, but when will it junk those clunky Bladerunner idents?

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❚ SENSATIONAL! Rudd Studio is behind this refreshing brand update for Channel 4 in the UK and builds on the splintering figure 4, the logo created by Martin Lambie-Nairn for the channel’s launch in 1982. The new look went live on October 22 with a series of channel stings for book-ending commercial breaks and trailing upcoming shows. Here’s Rudd’s own video compilation of the new split-screen animated graphics, with mood music by Oscar Gonzalez. Now all we can pray for is an end to those tiresome scenic station idents, contrived from barbaric housing estates and levitating supermarket trolleys.

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