Comments on: The History of the Channel 4 logo and idents http://eyedropper.co.uk/2007/10/19/the-history-of-the-channel-4-logo-and-idents/ Who do you believe, me or your own eyes? - Groucho Marx Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:23:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bing « Mr Shev's Blog http://eyedropper.co.uk/2007/10/19/the-history-of-the-channel-4-logo-and-idents/#comment-5511 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:08:45 +0000 http://eyedropper.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/the-history-of-the-channel-4-logo-and-idents/#comment-5511 [...] ‘fun’ things with the logos bollocks that I find a bit old fashioned (think Channel 4 logo circa 1985) and deeply patronising. I can imagine the brass at Google saying: ‘yeah, [...]

]]> By: Chris Johnston http://eyedropper.co.uk/2007/10/19/the-history-of-the-channel-4-logo-and-idents/#comment-5062 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:25:59 +0000 http://eyedropper.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/the-history-of-the-channel-4-logo-and-idents/#comment-5062 Start date was 2nd November 198i2 not 5th November

]]> By: Matt http://eyedropper.co.uk/2007/10/19/the-history-of-the-channel-4-logo-and-idents/#comment-4986 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:49:49 +0000 http://eyedropper.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/the-history-of-the-channel-4-logo-and-idents/#comment-4986 The 3rd ‘drive by’ logo is Los Angeles and features the Westin Bonaventure hotel in the background – the building of which Fredric Jameson equates as being the start of the postmodern era.

]]> By: Chris M http://eyedropper.co.uk/2007/10/19/the-history-of-the-channel-4-logo-and-idents/#comment-4839 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:02:10 +0000 http://eyedropper.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/the-history-of-the-channel-4-logo-and-idents/#comment-4839 Bless, a style guide. I love it when companies give me these… then sit in meetings where they ask for the site to be nothing like the style guide states, its the old, ‘OK, So you gave me this for what? Me to scan the logo out of?’

Anyhow you seem to have had a cool design past with the big two main stations (in my head anyway). I hope you find your exploits with food are just as fun if not a hundred times better.

]]> By: James Wallis http://eyedropper.co.uk/2007/10/19/the-history-of-the-channel-4-logo-and-idents/#comment-3389 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:48:37 +0000 http://eyedropper.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/the-history-of-the-channel-4-logo-and-idents/#comment-3389 A friend who claimed to know David Dundas once told me that there were words to the five-note C4 ‘parps’:

“I’VE earned THREE-FIFty.”

]]> By: Jim http://eyedropper.co.uk/2007/10/19/the-history-of-the-channel-4-logo-and-idents/#comment-3357 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:51:09 +0000 http://eyedropper.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/the-history-of-the-channel-4-logo-and-idents/#comment-3357 That Hamlet ad is genuine – I remember it from broadcast.

And what a great story the ’4′ has. It’s good to see that, even with its variations, it’s stayed the same basic design.

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