Category: Graphics

  • Presents Continuous

    Presents Continuous

    Explaining how I recreated the ABC Weekend Television start-up from the morning of Christmas Eve 1967.

  • Remember the name

    Remember the name

    A look back at some bits and bobs I did as a favour for the late, and much missed, Rob Milburn.

  • A Christmas Card

    A Christmas Card

    Explanation of how I created a Trumptonshire/BBC Presentation themed Christmas card for David Harper.

  • Drawing the Curtains

    Drawing the Curtains

    A description of how I recreated the curtain that was used for magic buttons on Westward Television’s “Gus Honeybun’s Birthdays”

  • Lemons Parking

    Lemons Parking

    A look at what the ground-breaking First Report/News at One theme would sound like if it had been played by an orchestra.

  • Recurring Nightmare

    Recurring Nightmare

    A piece detailing the creation of an orchestral version of the Big Centre TV start-up and close-down themes in MuseScore.

  • Torch and Go

    Torch and Go

    Description of how music and graphics of the BBC Television Schools countdown from 1958 was recreated in MuseScore, Blender and Inkscape.

  • We will mend it…

    We will mend it…

    At the end of June 2023, my friend Mark Simpson from BBC Northern Ireland’s presentation department wrote to me with a rather unusual request. “An incident has occurred with our BBC1NI globe. It seems a new cleaner has been into our Pres suite and wiped the legend with something which has taken some of the…

  • Secret Realms

    Secret Realms

    Repton was an BBC Micro puzzle game I first came across in 1985. It was one of the very, very few computer games that really clicked with me and I have had an on-off relationship with the lizard in the yellow jersey ever since! In 2010, I was involved in the BBC Micro and Electron…

  • This is BBC1

    This is BBC1

    After doing a BBC2 “GEM” clock, I thought it would only be right to do the BBC1 clock to go with it. The BBC1 caption is one of the fiddliest things I’ve drawn on a BBC Micro, and it wouldn’t be something I’d normally attempt to draw using MOVE, PLOT and DRAW commands. It would…

  • A little GEM

    A little GEM

    Sometimes, things don’t go as well as you expect. Other times, things go a lot better. And here’s one that falls into the second camp. After creating Oliver Elmes’ 1979 BBC2 symbol in Owlet, I thought it would be fun to create the fully-electronic BBC2 station clock to go with it. The BBC2 station clock…

  • Back To Basics

    Back To Basics

    Recently I’ve noticed that I have repeatedly revisited things whenever a new or interesting way of doing them turned up. When I first got my BBC Micro, back in 1983, one of the first things I wanted to do was recreate old television logos and teletext pages. Six years later, when I got my A3000,…