[TesTVWhirl]

It's a nice find, especially seeing some of the widescreen versions of stuff that never got broadcast in that form actually exist. Of course I'm sure everyone is going to sit dissecting and posting images one by one regardless, because we are all not capable of following the link on the previous page, but I would still suggest tempering your expectations of what some of this means somewhat. A lot of these graphics will never have been intended to make it to air so in that sense you could call them unused, but the words 'Tyne Tess Television' likely made it to a graphic too in error at some point (it did for their Teletext pages after all) so would that still be considered unused.

YTV had it's own in-house design department (Ballistix was the final name as I recall) who will have had to fill time doing things as they won't have been creating production graphics 100% of the time, especially once most of the promo creation moved south after 1998. Some will have been just been playing about with ideas. Some will have been examples of the sort of work they could do for pitches for other departments. Some are the deliberate duds that you always include in design pitches - company execs always want to see 3 or 4 ideas just to think they're getting value, so if you have one really good one you often have to knock something up no one would ever pick to pad out your deck (or so you hope anyway... Execs can sometimes go and pick the one you really didn't want them to so you have to be really careful ). And then don't forget there are people involved here too with careers to look out for. Some will have been people shoring up examples for portfolios as they'd no doubt have seen the writing on the wall for Ballistix long before it closed. And then of course any new people, juniors and interns need training up on tools and skills, so often may either be playing about with assets or have been set filler tasks by a senior just for practice. None of this would be intended for broadcast, and may also include random none existent companies or mergers. If anything I'd have thought the more intriguing bit is how so much of this would have ended up on machines at Tyne Tees rather than just Yorkshire, though that could just be the exact source of the material being unknown by the Flickr poster