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Martin Lambie Nairn in the chair
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A career in one word?

When the DBA asked Martin Lambie-Nairn to sum up his career in design in one word, he chose 'varied'...

Biography
Lambie-Nairn's history is laced with rich experience. He started his career
in the world of television in the sixties by joining the BBC as a temporary
holiday relief assistant graphic artist.

He subsequently went on to work
as a graphic designer in 3 other television companies in the UK, Rediffusion TV, ITN and London Weekend TV.

After leaving LWT and setting up his own company in the mid seventies, he
went on to pioneer new graphic presentation techniques in current affairs broadcasting for the current affairs programme Weekend World.

With the advent of computer animation in the Eighties he produced the
revolutionary computer-animated identity for Channel 4, which was to have a profound impact on both television graphic design and advertising. During this period he also conceived the original idea for the satirical TV series Spitting Image which ran for 11 years.

For the next decade he worked as a director of computer animated
commercials. These productions including the first ever 30 second computer generated ad in the UK, a TV commercial for Smarties.

In the late nineties he returned to the BBC as a consultant creative
director, a position he was to hold for the next 12 years, during which time
he tackled the total re-branding of the BBC, it¹s TV channels and radio
networks.

     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
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Over the last few years his company has developed into one of the worlds leading branding consultancies working for broadcasters and non
broadcasters.

Martin is currently Chairman and Executive Creative Director of Lambie-Nairn and works daily on projects as a designer and consultant. His philosophy of making complicated thing simple remains a core part of the business as does balancing commercial imperatives with creativity.
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