Now, that’s interesting, as I greatly prefer your version. No offence to @Travis whose work is great as always - I just think that somber theme is a bit depressing, especially at 5am.
And you’ve proven me wrong about that theme! Would still work well today.
The supers was based on the ones they used (like this one), while the colour palette is also based on theirs. I just wanted to play with Stuff’s S symbol for the ‘new’ brand, so I risked reading the name as “NEW HUB” and placed it in the middle of the condensed wordmark.
For the LIVE bug, I really don’t like how the place names are much tinier than the main tag:
Knocked up a no-frills backdrop inspired by the horizontal wipes at the end of their videos, with an Auckland photo from Unsplash. Fonts taken from Stuff’s CSScodes (not sure if it’s appropriate to share them here though - please correct me if it’s not!).
As for Sky News Australia taking the gig, I think BNZ already has an idea…
A cursed style swap - Carlton 1993 and CBS 1995. Always thought the two had a similar style and vibe (trying to be more relatable by including human faces to their IDs), so I swapped their respective symbols, but otherwise followed the original designs (adopted in places like replacing the 888 subtitle command in UK with US’ CC sign).
Stumbled across this mock on Youtube, swapping the RTL United symbol in their recreated 1999-2001 package. Of course this isn’t mine, but LOOK AT IT. It looks slightly better than the original too IMO.