Branding the Future of TV

So in a moment of creative abandon I entered this competition on my fave site for ‘getting hold’ of guilty Televisual pleasures like Screenwipe, IT Crowd and (shh) Top Gear to design a new logo for their new 2.0 site. It was up against some good stuff too; I wasn’t too worried by some of the homemade Comic Sans offerings but wasn’t too confident when I saw the quality of some of the entries on their messageboard.

But I won! They liked it so much they are already using it on the site (and are sending me a mug sporting the winning entry into the bargain). This makes me happy for three reasons:

One: I haven’t won a competition based on skill since a colouring compo in the Hartlepool Mail when I was eight, wherein I won a Briton’s Farm set, complete with working Bailer and Archimides screw.

Two: It’s a genuine honour to give a little back to such a good site

Three: My clients never send me mugs. :)

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First published:: 10.2.07 / 7pm

Filed under:: TV & Film, News, Design, Typography, Internet

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Joe 10.19.07 / 6pm

Muchos congratulations dude. It’s a lovely swirly design reminiscent in colour of Joost and in style of many TV idents from the past. I take several hats of to sir.

Littlepixel™ 10.23.07 / 5pm

Thanks! It’s funny - I’d never seen the Joost site so I didn’t know…
I just went to look but it’s all ‘halloweened’ out. Luckily I found a screencap on imagesearch. It is similar. How rare!

Glad you got the essence of ‘1988 BBC Sport’ that was injected into the proceedings. The swirls are mainly borrowed from a flickr group called ‘camera toss’ where the photographers throw their cameras on time-expose mode and catch them again. Brave..!

I tried a few chucking the ixus on the sofa but it wasn’t quite as good for some reason…. :)