Ten Acre Films have reported the sad news that Doctor Who title sequence designer Sid Sutton died in September.

Sid was generous and enthusiastic when contributing to our Adventures in Type and Space project earlier in the year and we’ll be dedicating the magazine to his memory.

Sid Sutton was a British graphic designer most famous for designing the Doctor Who title sequences from 1980 until 1986. The title sequences for Doctor Who were the starfield versions and were used from The Leisure Hive until the end of The Trial of a Time Lord. For 1987’s Time and the Rani, Oliver Elmes designed the titles. Sid Sutton also provided the cover designs for the earliest BBC VHS Video Doctor Who releases, including Revenge of the Cybermen, The Seeds of Death and Day of the Daleks. 

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.