Martin Lambie-Nairn
Credit: Ashley Bingham at A&M Photography
Martin Lambie-Nairn, who has died aged 75, was one of Britain’s leading television graphic designers, creating memorable logos for the BBC and Channel 4, as well as coming up with the original idea for the Spitting Image series.
Credited with the concept of “an adult Muppet Show”, Lambie-Nairn recalled having a brainwave in the middle of a winter’s night in 1981: a satirical show featuring grotesque caricatures of public figures, politicians, royalty and celebrities, like the Plasticine models made by Peter Fluck and Roger Law he had seen in Sunday newspaper colour supplements but with animated puppets.
Martin Lambie-Nairn, branding expert who made TV idents sexy , dies aged 75
Tributes for designer s exceptional work for C4 and BBC.
by Gideon Spanier
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