Founded in 1998 by Steve Hackett as a personal archival project, TVARK documents British television presentation history. Idents, title sequences, programme promotions, start-ups, closedowns and break bumpers, material broadcasters rarely preserve, across nearly 4,000 pages and 40,000 clips. Each entry includes written analysis.
For motion design students, the archive makes it possible to trace how broadcast identity evolved across decades and technologies, and to compare how different channels approached the same design problems.
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