About Sid Sutton
Lived 1939 – 2023 (aged 83–84). Sid Sutton was a British graphic designer.
Sidney Malcolm Sutton (23 August 1939 – 27 June 2023) was a British graphic designer most famous for designing the Doctor Who title sequences from 1980 until 1986. He joined the BBC in 1961, as assistant to Tom Taylor. In 1968 he was appointed Senior Designer for Presentation Graphics.
Sutton also created logos for Sveriges Television, which appeared in October 1980.
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.
An archive of his work for the BBC is held at Ravensbourne University London.
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Who was Sid Sutton?
British graphic designer (1939–2023)
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Sid Sutton was born in 1939.
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Sid Sutton died in 2023.
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Sid Sutton was a graphic designer.
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Sid Sutton was British.
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