Speaking of ribbons, what significance do the BBC's red, blue and green ribbons have (you know, the ones they have as the background on the BBC's computer desktops and on that flag outside TV centre)?
The red, green and blue, you should know, but whatever the ribbons represent, erm, I don't know, strands of information maybe, or three ribbons to "inform, entertain and educate"?
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I have an inkling that the orange ribbons are meant to convey the BBC's newsgathering presence throughout the world. They don't just go encircle it but envelop it at points, so they're perhaps representing how the events are "captured" no matter how far away.
Alternatively they're trying to show the reach of the BBC, the world service especially, and how it reaches (almost) every corner of the planet to report events. In that case, maybe the 'explosion' at the start of the titles represents the event taking place.
Nah, I think Barney Boo hit the nail on the head. They are just graphical fillers. They didn't know what to do, so they plonked something pointless in to fill a space or something.
Hi guys - new to the forum - thoughtI'd add my two pennies!
I think the multicoloured ribbons hark back to the old BBC Colour Logo - with each letter of "BBC" underlined by a different colour - red green and blue? kind of a funky way of updating it really..!
I think that the 'ribbons' are pretty much just nice onscreen garb, don't have any real meaning, just look nice don't they? Or just mean the nations as they did in early 90's with NI being green, Scotland being blue and Wales as red. (Why England doesn't come up I don't know but they probably figured good ol' England could have all 3 colours.) As for the BBC News ones, maybe they could be abstract versions of waves.
Surely the red, green and blue represent the way CRT screens (like those in most household TVs these days) display pictures... Somewhat like so:
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/display4.gif
Just look at your TV really closely when its on... And yeah, I'm guessing most people already knew thats how they worked, but thats where I was told the 3 colours come from...
On a similar subject, what did the original News 24 flags represent? I can understand why BBC World used them with its international remit but I always found their presence on News 24 a little odd. Even so they looked very impressive, perhaps because they were quite nonconformist in terms of news graphics, i.e. not featuring a globe at any point!
Surely the red, green and blue represent the way CRT screens (like those in most household TVs these days) display pictures... Somewhat like so:
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/display4.gif
Just look at your TV really closely when its on... And yeah, I'm guessing most people already knew thats how they worked, but thats where I was told the 3 colours come from...
The three colours are those of the phosphors on a colour television (the primary colours of light, also used in the BBC "TWO" logo). There were also national variants. BBC Scotland had its underlines all in blue; BBC Northern Ireland used three green underlines; BBC Wales used all red. (In peculiarly British fashion there is no BBC England.)
http://www.625.uk.com/tv_logos/logos/bbc_corp_88.gif The ribbons on the bbc corporate logo (computer desktops and flag) are a derivative of the above or "a funky way of updating it", but as for the news ribbons, metaphorical headlines, graphical fillers, who knows?
But does any else think anything different?
If you're reading this and you designed them then tell us
WHY?
