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 * 1991: The BBC1 Computer Originated World was replaced on 16 February 1991 by a new ‘Virtual globe’, designed by the Lambie-Nairn branding agency who had first made an impact with Channel 4′s original 1982 ident. The idents which were computer generated and had no soundtrack consisted of a figure ’1′ inside a rotating transparent globe surrounded by a swirling smokey atmosphere above the BBC’s corporate logo – the bold italic letters B B C within three rhomboids, above blue red and green flashes. The idents were “unveiled” on that week’s Going Live!, the Saturday morning magazine show on Children’s BBC at the time, by Philip Schofield and Sarah Greene, although the globe already officially debuted before then.


 * 1991: BBC2's new custom ’2′ — and the signature colour, viridian — were unveiled, in idents that would successfully change public perception, and become world famous. The ’2′ always appeared in the same shape, in various forms; the earliest idents of 1991 featured solely inanimate ’2′ figures of different material in each, but also made use of camera angle tricks and properties such as refraction to achieve various effects.