That’s Nick! Appreciate the feedback.
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To be totally honest, there’s a lot of bad mock-ups posted to this forum, but level of “bad” is up to the level of design knowledge of the person critiquing. I couldn’t tell you the last time I saw a mock up on here that was anywhere close to broadcast quality, was different enough from old designs or even adaptable to become a package… but I enjoy seeing people improve their skills (we all came from somewhere), and there is the occasional diamond in the rough.
If I could give people some pro tips it would be:
- Learn more about fonts and text sizes. Try to keep things to 2 or 3 font sizes (eg. Title, body, subnote/footer)
- There are quite a number of resources to help you determine colours that go well together. Adobe has “Adobe Colours” as a build in plugin, there are also online resources like Coolors.
- Mimicking other designs you see is a great way to learn technique, but that doesn’t necessarily make your concept new. Has it been done before? Is there a way to update it to make it different, or more exciting?
“A man is only as good as his tools” is an accurate analogy, but “tools do not maketh the man” is also true. They go hand in hand. I agree that you can get good results out of anything with a level of design knowledge, but better tools used well can make getting great results more efficient.
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I think if it had that 7 slash in there these would be perfect!
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Can’t tell if this is serious or a gee-up…
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Second however for my liking, they appear to be too big
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I always use PowerPoint and my mocks are okay!
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cough are you saying mine a dogs breakfast? 
cough
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It’s too cramped, the font is to heavy.
I think the bottom left position is better than the top left - I know it’s only slight thing, but there’s less action around the ground level than in the air.
I don’t think the new graphics are that much of a disaster. I rather like them.
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Been working on a few Test Cards recently, and I thought this would be the place to show off.
(If only analogue was still around.)
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Something of a SydneyCityTV tribute to the former Mix 106.5 (now KIIS 1065) branding: A re-edit of the old website homepage. Primarily based on the 2004 Mix Network look, but some splashes of the graphical looks used in 2008 and 2010 have also been thrown in:
Of course Sammy (RIP) and Jason unfortunately couldn’t have been an actual breakfast show in 2020/21, but since they were the longest running brekky duo in Mix 106.5 it was only fitting to have them there. A few other elements which would be considered dated by current day standards (such as the smartphone app ad), although maybe I’ll do a modern Mix 106.5 website mock one day! 
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Ah yes, I do to remember when everyone was using the font from the 1991 Channel TEN logo on everything in the early 2000’s.
says no-one ever. 
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Good point. 
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I miss the early 2000s internet era
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Not just a brilliant mock, but also nice to reminisce the old Mix website and what developers would put on websites back then… things like games, horoscopes, Google search, tell the boss - all just to populate the site before there were a heap of people who only worked on digital.
Side note (and wrong topic), but that format would do really well IMO in 2021.
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I’ve been playing around with seeing what a white logo could look like. At first I don’t think it would stand out enough, but if you think of it like a watermark I think it could work. An interesting exercise. I haven’t done a full set of mocks yet.
Another varient.
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From what I’ve seen, the Classic Hits station websites (in their own design) also had those types of features at the time.
Of course I agree it’d be cool to have sites like that today! 
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