Why are lines so commonly used in TV today? For example, the old C4 idents, with vertical lines. Today ITV uses them, ITV1,ITV3, ITV ECPs Sky News ad breaks, Loose Women.
We then see a little red block on BBC News Astons, exactly like Sky News, which Central News West previously used in 2001. ITV news astons have them as well.
What a bizarre topic. Unless you want CBBC-style graphics everywhere, the straight line is a fairly useful thing. It's possible that straight lines are fairly easy to use in a design. As opposed to, for example, the hexagon. We don't see much of the hexagon nowadays, do we?
Fruit. I think there is too much fruit about. This lacks originality.
When I first saw this topic simply titled "Lines". I thought, right, its either about lines that make up a TV picture - i.e 625 and HD etc. Tosh Lines from The Bill, Between the Lines, the BBC police drama with Neil Pearson...or Anne Robinson's face in HD...
No doubt that lines are useful, but there appears to be, at least in my view, a greater use now in animated lines and more commonly the vertical line.
Red Bee seem quite fond of this sort of style, not just in coloured lines of whatever thickness, but also using division and creating division:
We have the ITV1 logo broken apart to 'frame' the scene, the latest BBC TWO trail style (TWO MORROW etc) with the purple lines of a similar purpose, and then we have BBC FOUR with a division of the screen into 4 straight quarters, and ITV4, again with a division which is vertical-only to bring together the sides into a new image.
I must say I don't want to see any such styles used yet again for BBC ONE; I want something which is distinctly removed from any stylings of the ITV channels...moreover something in the mould of the simple yet bold 'traditional' style; less fanciful concepts and something that is both representative of the channel, and visually / aurally arresting.
