mike afford media : TV graphics, broadcast graphics design, motion graphics. TV and corporate video, Leitrim, Ireland.
TV Graphics
We offer expertise at every stage of motion graphics creation - channel branding and idents, titles, credits, content graphics, 3D and VR studios. We have produced award-winning graphics for News and Current Affairs programmes, Elections, Weather Graphics and International Events.
Channel Branding
Mike Afford headed up the small design team responsible for the channel identity, branding and automated graphics content design for BBC Arabic - the BBC's new Arabic language Television service which launched March 2008.
Weather Graphics
Mike Afford was the senior graphic designer for the award-winning BBC Weather Graphics which for the first time made use of realtime 3D technology across the entire BBC national and regional output.
Virtual Studios
As well as designing many high-profile VR graphics for the BBC (including the award-winning 'Election Night' in 2006), Mike has recently designed and produced VR Studio Sets for Setanta Sports in Dublin
Election Graphics
Mike Afford has designed state-of-the-art graphics for countless BBC Election programmes.
Election 97 : find out more
Vote 2001 : find out more
Election Night (2006) : find out more
US Elections : find out more
TV & Corporate Video Graphics
Graphics are an essential means of getting your message across. As well as conveying information in a memorable and visually engaging way, graphics can be used to reinforce your brand values - establishing a mood or feeling by careful use of colour, typography, imagery and movement.
Video graphics can explain complex ideas or concepts in a way that voiceovers or talking heads cannot. As well as providing visual signposts within a presentation, professionally designed graphics can also tie various elements together into a consistent single package.
Contact Mike Afford for TV graphics or corporate video graphics
Logo Animation
A static logo is fine for print applications, but if you are producing corporate DVDs or web videos a professionally produced animation is essential to get your business noticed.
A broadcast-quality video animation will take your production to a whole new level.
Headlines (www.corpnews.co.uk) are one of Britain's leading corporate communications agencies.
Watch Headlines animated logo (Flash video)
Contact Mike Afford for professionally designed and produced animated logos for video
3D Realtime Graphics and VR
Realtime graphics are those rendered 'live to air' direct from a graphics rendering platform (often 3D-model based sequences driven by a live data stream) - as opposed to being pre-rendered and recorded on to disk or tape for playout at a later time.
Broadcast applications have naturally included Election programmes where the need to display results on screen with the minimum delay has always been paramount.
Mike Afford has always been at the cutting edge of 3D and real-time graphics. He designed the first data-driven 3D graphics for same-day transmission for the BBC Election Campaign way back in 1992. Europe Decides showcased the first full-screen live-to-air 3D (Royal Television Society nominated for Graphic Design). Mike also designed the first realtime-only graphics for a UK General Election programme (Election 97) - all subsequent Election programmes have used real time 3D designs.
More recent developments in computer hardware have made graphics rendered live from PCs the affordable option for every broadcaster. Mike's graphics for the BBC's 'Working Lunch' were among the first to use PC platforms to render financial data and analysis live-to-air, and the new BBC Weather Graphics are also rendered in real time from PCs.
We offer advice and guidance for your own programme needs - VR (virtual reality) studio design, or bespoke 3D design and animation solutions for real-time graphics systems (tOG, Brainstorm, VizRT).
Contact Mike Afford for real-time 3D graphics design and consultancy
See also : VR Studio design
Award-winning Graphic Design
Mike Afford has over 20 years experience in broadcast graphic design - a Senior Designer for BBC News specialising in information graphics for one of the world's leading broadcasters.
Industry awards include a BAFTA for Graphic Design, Royal Television Society awards for programme content graphics, and international awards from the Broadcast Designers' Association.