Logo Watch

This story caught my eye yesterday:

Sports giant Nike has paid £300,000 to Hackney council after it emblazoned the authority's logo on its products.

It's good to see a big corporation taken to task for this kind of action. The quote from Nike says that this was an error made in "good faith" but I can't help feeling that if the situation had been reversed Hackney would have been slapped with a monster lawsuit faster than you could say swoosh.

In other logo news this was revealed a few days ago. As far as design goes it's completely predictable, but then anything else would look silly when every other TfL logo is based on the familiar roundel design. I'm bound to be slightly excited about this, partly because I'm a complete design and typeface geek when it comes to the development of London Transport branding. More understandably, perhaps, it's because the new OVERGROUND line will be coming right past my house in 2010. It just makes the whole thing seem more real.