Mike Afford Media provides motion graphic design services to broadcast and corporate clients worldwide.

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With over 20 years experience in broadcast graphic design at the BBC in London, Mike Afford has been responsible for some of the most eye-catching and innovative TV graphics including BBC Election programmes, BBC Weather graphics, and the brand identity for the BBC Arabic Television channel.

Mike has received design industry awards from the Broadcast Designers’ Association, BAFTA, and the Royal Television Society.

custom virtual set design (2020) by Mike Afford

Custom virtual set from 2020, by Mike Afford
See more of Mike’s sets at virtualstudiosets.com

In 2007 Mike left the BBC and moved to Ireland with his wife and young family and founded Mike Afford Media – providing the same world class design expertise to businesses and broadcasters in Ireland, the UK, and worldwide, ever since.

Mike also runs Virtual Studio Sets (virtualstudiosets.com) – world-class virtual sets you can buy online and download instantly. Virtual Studio Sets have customers all over the world using Mike’s sets for live streaming and post-production.


broadcast graphic design by Mike Afford

Latest posts from our blog

AccuWeather weather icons

I’ve recently added another look-up table that maps my royalty free weather icons to AccuWeather data condition codes. It’s a text file with tab separated values for the AccuWeather codes and descriptions and the corresponding file name from my weather icon sets. There are also a few notes regarding the symbols I have chosen for […]

Weather Channel (TWC) icon sets

I’ve recently added another FREE look-up table that maps my royalty free weather icon sets to the condition codes used by a popular weather data provider – the Weather Company / Weather Channel (TWC) Weather API Forecast and Observations APIs.

BBC Weather Symbols. What do they mean?

Even though it’s been about fifteen years since I worked at the BBC Weather Centre, I’m still surprised at the number of emails I receive asking about the BBC weather symbols, and what they mean. It’s quite interesting to get a glimpse into the kind of things that people find confusing. Even though the BBC […]