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You're spot on, the BBC's graphics are fine as they are. They are there to serve a practical purpose of delivering information with clarity, not to look like some graphic designers wet dream.
I'm going to break the trend of this thread, and say I quite like the BBC News graphics - well, the national ones anyway. There is some quite subtle animations, and the package matches the rest of the BBC News output, from idents & titles to the website. News graphics don't need to be rendered in 3D with hundreds of different gradients to make them modern. The graphics are there for a purpose - not to demonstrate the power of the 3D chipset in the graphics card they're using, but to inform viewers what they are seeing, and provide additional details where appropriate. The understated (but quite clever with their colour scheme) Gain/Hold/Lose graphics during the election I found much more appealing than Sky's "how much data can we fit on a lower third" graphics.
Finally, to the person who said Gill Sans is outdated, it's a classic font, has been around for decades, and almost certainly will be around for many more. It's also the BBC's corporate font, and IMHO opinion, looks quite classy, while being easy on the eyes.
Finally, to the person who said Gill Sans is outdated, it's a classic font, has been around for decades, and almost certainly will be around for many more. It's also the BBC's corporate font, and IMHO opinion, looks quite classy, while being easy on the eyes.
You're spot on, the BBC's graphics are fine as they are. They are there to serve a practical purpose of delivering information with clarity, not to look like some graphic designers wet dream.
