Bernard Lodge

Bernard Lodge (born 1933) is a British graphic designer, known for his design of title sequences for television programmes. He worked for the BBC from 1959 to 1977 before launching a freelance career. He has been described by the Open University as a pioneer of graphic design in television.

Career

Lodge attended the Royal College of Art and joined the BBC graphics department. He is known for his work on the science-fiction television series Doctor Who, for which he designed the first four series logos and engineered the first five title sequences. The earliest versions were generated using the 'howlround' technique. Lodge began to experiment with slit-scan photography techniques that has been developed by Douglas Trumbull to generate the Stargate sequence in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 1973, he used this technique to generate a new title sequence for Doctor Who, creating a "time tunnel" effect. Lodge's designs were used on Doctor Who until 1980, when Sid Sutton was appointed as the designer of a new title sequence by incoming producer John Nathan-Turner.

After leaving the BBC, Lodge worked on films, including Ridley Scott's Alien and Blade Runner.

Since retiring, Lodge has written and illustrated children’s books, and works in woodcut and linocut printmaking.

Awards Several of Lodge's title designs in the 1960s and 1970s won awards from Design and Art Direction. In 1974, Lodge won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Graphics, becoming one of the first people involved in Doctor Who to win an award for his work.

Filmography Lodge designed title sequences for a range of noted productions: