The FontShop FontFeed (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Last week The Art Of The Title Sequence featured the opening sequence for How We Built Britain, the landmark BBC One show that aired over June and July 2007. The six-part television series was written and presented by David Dimbleby, and gave a revealing insight into the British character through the extraordinary landscape of Britain’s [...]
cousas d'opaco (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
How We Built Britain, The Art of the Title Sequence , via nevver
Motionographer (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Art of The Title highlights the typographic handiwork in the main title for the BBC’s, How We Built Britain. Posted on Motionographer Posted on Motionographer
The Art of the Title Sequence (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Click to Watch SD | Click to Watch HD | iPod/iPhone “Development wants, development gets.” – Fugazi A tangle of utility in both architecture and typography offers a fascinatingly structured title sequence for the BBC’s “How We Built Britain” that bespeaks an acquisitive England. The artificial monuments of type seem proportionally sound, the final title card...
Gordon Frickers' Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... would be included. I wish I could attend the funeral. Returning to “The Boats that built Britain” to be narrated by the renowned journalist, sailor and author Tom Cunliffe, the series is scheduled to broadcast in Britain on BBC C4 next Spring as part of a celebration of the sea. The film company are also interested in my Father’s account of his landing in Normandy on D Day + 4. An...
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
The Yorkshire Building Society, Britain's second-largest lender of its kind, and the Chelsea Building Society on Wednesday announced plans to merge.The plan would consolidate Yorkshire Building Society's position by creating a group with assets in...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The Yorkshire Building Society, Britain's second largest lender of its kind, and the Chelsea Building Society on Wednesday announced plans to merge.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
THE Candy brothers, property developers for the super-rich, want to call the Prince of Wales as a witness in an £81m case in which they are suing the Qatari royal family over the collapse of their plans to build Britain’s most expensive residential block.
Gordon Frickers' Blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... links. The reason is FORM FILMS, http://www.formmedia.co.uk , I may have mentioned ‘ Boats that Built Britain ’? They wish to interview me for a 6-part documentary series entitled ‘ The Boats that Built Britain ’. This series is part of a landmark BBC4 season about the Sea. This series is currently scheduled to air in spring 2010. Showcase at the British Ambassadors...
The Keezees in the UK (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Here's a few shots from our drive-by visit to Ely Cathedral . We first saw this place on the BBC documentary called " How We Built Britain " which aired a couple of years back, and thought - that'd be worth a look. How We Built Britain was an enormously cool show, and David Dimbleby is a pretty cool presenter,travelling about the country from building to building...
Labour.org.uk (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Today’s Queen’s Speech has set out the next steps in Building Britain's Future. Central to the speech was that government can be a force for good – to secure the economic recovery and build a fairer society. Our vision of the future for Britain is optimistic – Britain has great reserves of strength and talent which can be unlocked. On the economy...
From Under the Stone (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It is always a pleasure to receive letters, notes and emails from 'the big guys,' especially those of a more polemical nature. In this vein, From Under the Stone was delighted to receive a letter from Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate (and Herald letters page regular) Donald Worsley. Kent County Council (almost totally blue) favour building a lorry park capable of holding thousands...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... up Whitehall in devising ever more complex ways of trying to measure the goals. In a summer paper, Building Britain's Future, the government said it no longer believed in targets to be met by departments, but instead favoured entitlements for consumers of public services. Questions of legality emerged, with even cabinet ministers privately divided on the extent to which the entitlements...
Joshua Chambers' Political Review (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... it does rather raise the question why hasn’t anyone seriously been proposing this earlier? Even building Britain’s part of the Channel Tunnel infrastructure took years longer than it did for the French, partly because of our planning laws. Crossrail’s been trying to get done since the ’70s, and then was proposed again in the ’90s, but was dropped agin. Suddenly the Tories think trains...
Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
But the Prime Minister's strategists made clear they welcome Conservative opposition to plans that have been selected to create “dividing lines” with their election rivals. Leading the charge, Lord Mandelson, writing on the facing page, said: “If playing politics means that we in the Labour Government are setting out a strong agenda to build Britain's future then that is a charge to which...
