[Larry the Loafer]

I think there's an overlap of a few things for me. I was generally fascinated by logos and brands from a very young age, so I'm told. I'd always notice what make a car was, or what brand of food I saw in the cupboard, so I guess that would've included TV logos too. There's an added bonus of 90s pres being generally pleasing to the eyes and ears of a young child.

Then there was the fact that my nan had cable at the time, which I found utterly fascinating. We eventually got it ourselves around 1996/7 and just became engrossed in all the different TV channels on offer. There's a short bit of home movie footage from 1997 that catches me doodling a Sky Movies Gold logo on a magnetic drawing tablet.

The interest in wider presentation came from a cabinet full of VHS tapes we used to have, full of 80s and 90s home recordings that I generally enjoyed looking through to see how different everything was. The tapes were unceremoniously disposed of, and it's probably to blame for my habit of archiving stuff to this day.

As a final note, there was one day in the early 00s I decided to try and look for the old Sky tombstone logos on Google, having jolted my memory of them somehow. An image of them led me to the good old TV World website, where I soon learned I wasn't the only person who had an interest in this weird stuff.