Channel Identity and News Programme Titles The BBC Arabic channel branding designed by Mike Afford and Angus McKeown for BBC News. Channel identity and news programme titles produced at the Moving Picture Company, London. TV Channel Ident video: BBC Arabic TV – Channel Ident BBC Arabic News (programme titles) BBC Arabic TV – News Titles […]
3D weather graphics for real-time forecasts A new look for weather maps and a completely new system for producing weather forecasts at the BBC.
Bundle of all four ‘TV-Style’ weather icon packs, including the font version.
Real-time 3D results and analysis graphics and Brainstorm virtual set. The VR studio This was Jeremy Vine’s first outing as BBC Election analysis guru (Peter Snow had retired from Elections following the General Election of 2005). A simple but convincing VR set served as a solid grounding for the graphics – something that would provide […]
The BBC’s General Election programme for 2001 All the graphics were rendered in real-time, including the virtual reality graphics for Peter Snow’s swingometer and House of Commons sequences. Awarded the Royal Television Society Judges’ Award Programme Logo Peter Snow and the V.R. swingometer Conservative / Liberal Democrat Swingometer Swingometer close-up Targets William Hague climbs the […]
BBC General Election programme Election 97 was the BBC’s General Election night programme for the Labour landslide in 1997. All the graphics were rendered in real-time (i.e. with no pre-rendered animations) using Silicon Graphics hardware. Awarded the BAFTA award for Graphic Design, an RTS award and a BDA award Here are just some of the […]
1992 | 1996 | 2000 The American Election of 1992 was a graphics testing ground for the BBC. The live graphics were based partly on Silicon Graphics hardware for the first time, and consequently the programme was the first in the world to incorporate realtime 3D graphics into its output, fed from […]
5 continents, 25 channels, 227 reporters…All the news you’re ever going to need in 30 minutes The Brief The brief for this show was to conceive and produce the channel identities for about thirty channels or channel strands for a 6-part comedy show lampooning the relentless march of 24-hour news. The aim was to go […]
Broadcast Graphic Design by Mike Afford Starts Monday 24th August 2009.17.15 BBC Two. Just completed some TV graphics for the new BBC2 show ‘The Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour of Britain’. It’s a 30-part series running weekdays on BBC2 starting August 24th. You can view below a movie of the title sequence end resolve and see […]
Digital compositing for CBBC TV show April 2011. Nearing completion of two back-to-back series of Little Howard’s Big Question (Series 2 & 3) for CBBC. Digital compositing by Mike Afford Media and Made In Colour. Little Howard’s Big Question is a children’s series about an animated six-year-old boy, and stars Howard Read (‘Big Howard’). In […]