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BBC News Rebrand - This Monday

New look BBC News output from Monday (January 2008)

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NE
newsmonkey
Reboot posted:
peterrocket posted:
urban14 posted:


Hmmm... as an insider, I've seen the complete re-brand - and I'd describe it as anything but 'a minor tweak'. In my opinion, BBC News will look significantly different following the re-launch. True, the graphics are an evolution of a previous look - but I think they're fresh, energising and exciting. I can't wait to see them on screen.


Another thing here is that it looks more an evolution of the 1999 look, not the current one....

Cat's cradle anyone? Wink


So, what, we're looking at something "evolved" from this?

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/8742/n24huhsw3.jpg

(original image taken from here and super-quickly recoloured to white-grey & red rather than cream & orange-red, given that we've already been told that white-grey & red are going to be the dominant colours)


Well if you really want a hint, just wait til 0200 and you'll be able to see the first glimpses of it on the news website
JO
Joe
Careful, the BBC bandwidth might get used up by people pressing Ctrl+F5 all night!
BR
Brekkie
Reboot posted:
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/8742/n24huhsw3.jpg

(original image taken from here and super-quickly recoloured to white-grey & red rather than cream & orange-red, given that we've already been told that white-grey & red are going to be the dominant colours)



Ooh - quite liked that. Was never a huge fan of the cream graphics - they look so much more modern in white - though white graphics often tend to date quite quickly.
MD
mdtauk
peterrocket posted:
Another thing here is that it looks more an evolution of the 1999 look, not the current one....

Cat's cradle anyone? Wink


Well with Lambie-Nairn on board, they are just re-asserting thier design. And I guess I wasn't too far off, conceptually with my Video Mock, Evolution of 1999...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnP1rVcheI
MD
mdtauk
Brekkie posted:
Ooh - quite liked that. Was never a huge fan of the cream graphics - they look so much more modern in white - though white graphics often tend to date quite quickly.


Channel 4 News is testament to that!
JO
Joe
Quote:
And I guess I wasn't too far off, conceptually with my Video Mock, Evolution of 1999...

Umm... How do you know how far off you are? You don't know the concept...
NG
noggin Founding member
martinDTanderson posted:
peterrocket posted:
Another thing here is that it looks more an evolution of the 1999 look, not the current one....

Cat's cradle anyone? Wink


Well with Lambie-Nairn on board, they are just re-asserting thier design. And I guess I wasn't too far off, conceptually with my Video Mock, Evolution of 1999...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnP1rVcheI


Wait until you see it before you decide how close or far away you are...
ST
STV Today
Martin, I hope the new look will be similar to your predictions. Whatever they do - it will still be better than the predicted Sky News new look.

Let's face it - the BBC team cannot cock it up as much as Sky have done in the past (and will probably continue to do)...time will tell though!
MD
mdtauk
Jugalug posted:
Quote:
And I guess I wasn't too far off, conceptually with my Video Mock, Evolution of 1999...

Umm... How do you know how far off you are? You don't know the concept...


I don't know for sure, but it sounds like its a remix of 1998, but more modrn and cleaner, which was the idea behind my animation
BH
Bvsh Hovse
newsmonkey posted:
Well if you really want a hint, just wait til 0200 and you'll be able to see the first glimpses of it on the news website

I'll be interested to what has been done tomorrow morning, as I have not been sent an email warning of CPS maintenance this evening. I would expect to have been told, as some World Service languages use CPS.

For those that don't know CPS is the content management system for everything hosted on news.bbc.co.uk.
JO
Joe
Is that in-house? I can't find anything about it on t'internet.
MW
Mike W
Jugalug posted:
Is that in-house? I can't find anything about it on t'internet.
Might be custom drupal build.

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