Michael Pickwoad (1945 - 2018)

[elisi]

Doctor Who Team: We are sad to report that Production Designer Michael Pickwoad has died at the age of 73.

And here is a video of him talking about re-designing the TARDIS.

Comments

[promethia_tenk]

I did always like him. Also that video makes me so happy. buttresses . . . *ngh*

[elisi]

I love the fact that he turned up in tweed & bow tie... ♥

[promethia_tenk]

Head canon: when the Curator dies he turns into Michael Pickwoad.

[elisi]

Head canon accepted.

[enevarim]

I also enjoyed this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx2nBsyNPd0 where he talks briefly about the bookcases – “here we have Gallifreyan symbols and a high-tech bookcase but with an eighteenth century scroll pediment. It's a mixture – a blend of design – that's the TARDIS – it's a mixture of all millennia, of everything.”

[elisi]

Oh cool, will check that out!

ETA: THE ROUND THINGS ARE MADE OF DALEKS???!?!?!?!

[enevarim]

Yes. I wasn't convinced by his rationalization of that, but it was a lovely moment. (Now in the Seeker's TARDIS, on the other hand…)

[elisi]

The running joke has just been made a million times better. Thank you.

And I don't know that the Seeker would use them for decoration, to be honest. He's much too practical.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

That inscribed to hear.

[elisi]

<3

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

Oh no :(

[elisi]

Sounds like an amazing man.

[sea_thoughts]

That's a shame.

[elisi]

It really is. :(

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

RIP :(

[elisi]

Yes, very sad. :(

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Damn...

[elisi]

:(