Sidney Malcolm Sutton (1939 – 27 June 2023) was a British graphic designer most famous for designing the Doctor Who title sequences from 1980 until 1986.[1] He joined the BBC in 1961, as assistant to Tom Taylor.[2] In 1968 he was appointed Senior Designer for Presentation Graphics.[2]
Sid Sutton
Born
Sidney Malcolm Sutton
1939 (1939)
Died
27 June 2023 (aged 83–84)
Occupation
Graphic designer
In 1969 he designed the "rotating globe" ident for BBC television, which was used until 1984 at least.[2]
Sutton was seen on camera as a magician in the title sequence he made for the programme "For My Next Trick" in 1975.[2]
The title sequences for Doctor Who were the starfield versions and were used from The Leisure Hive until the end of The Trial of a Time Lord. For 1987's Time and the Rani, Oliver Elmes designed the titles.[1] Sutton also provided the cover designs for the earliest BBC VHS Video Doctor Who releases, including The Seeds of Death and Day of the Daleks.[citation needed] Sutton discusses his work in a short documentary, "Synthesizing Starfields", provided as an extra feature on the DVD release of the series The Leisure Hive.[3]
SVT1 and SVT2 logos, designed by Sutton, used from 1980 to 7 January 1996.
Immediately prior to his work on Doctor Who, he had been nominated for a BAFTA for his graphics on the Robert Banks Stewart-created Shoestring that was a precursor to Bergerac, another show for which he provided the titles.[citation needed]
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