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BBC Radio Rebrand

Thank you for the comments. I'm no graphics designer and I'm not using professional software. I like to tinker in my spare time and just experiment. I was bored the other day and just wanted to experiment to see what the Reith font might look like if used to update the radio logos.

In my opinion, they don't look too bad, at least as a foundation to someone who's much better at this than me, to go in and add some personality to each one and also change the positioning of some of the elements.

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I can't read the "sports extra" in the 5 Live Sports Extra logo, too small. The "music" in the 6 Music logo harks back to the station's original logo, with the "m" inside the slanted 6 in inverted colours, but isn't done as well and struggles for readability. Woman's Hour looks a mess, the kerning is out between "W" and "o". The whole lot looks uninspiring and generic, plus poorly made.


The 6 music and 5 live sports extra ones, were the two I had the greatest challenge with and I will hold my hand up and say that they showed me that this concept doesn't really work with these longer titled stations. With the Woman's Hour version, I guess changing between the serif and sans serif fonts, won't help with the gap between the w and o. In terms of being
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poorly made
, I'm using PowerPoint, not Photoshop, I am sorry.

This was just my interpretation and I'm sure the BBC would never use anything like this.
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They all look a bit... dull. There's no originality to any of them.
This is something I have accused the BBC of doing, particularly with their programme websites. To be honest, I wanted to do something fancy with the Radio 3 logo, but with the software I was using, I just couldn't get the bass clef like they do in the current version. I kind of like them, but I can see that no one else does. It's fine though, I just wanted to see what other people might think.

Thanks for the constructive criticism.

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BBC Radio Rebrand

I was inspired to have a look at what the BBC radio logos might look like, using the Reith font. I've made circular, square and bar versions for the main radio stations and I'm currently thinking about other stations too. I've even thought about a couple of the programme names.

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