Martin Lambie-Nairn has died

Good to know that his legacy will constantly live on in the form of the animated balloon and 2-car on the homepage. He will truly be missed.

It's survived previous rebrands so I suspect it'll live on.

Surprising BBC News didn't mention his BBC News work.

I loved Martin’s work, a real inspiration - really sad news.

I really hope they honour him by bringing back the old 2s for a day

Tribute with old Ident before Back to the 90s on Channel 4

Nice touch Channel 4

y’know, I’ve just realized: the guy hasn’t really had a good connection with ITV
like, he’s only done work for 3 franchises, and one of them is universally disliked

i wonder why this is?

Channel 4 just played the MLN blocks ident with a brief mention of his passing

God no - we'll end up stuck with them for 4 years.

The greatest tribute is actually the curves - they hark back to his work of 1991 more than any other ident set has over the last 20 years.

P.S. Good to see C4 pay tribute.

Really sad to hear of his passing. I've loved his work and like many, his work was mainly what got me interested in TV pres. I doubt we will but it would be nice if maybe on BBC Four we got a special programme about all the work he did for British TV pres.

Also love C4 for that little dedication to him just now playing one of his idents

Bravo, Channel 4.

I can only imagine the behind the scenes admin just to get this tribute done - here's the video.