BBC3's new logo has taken some branding tips from W1A
Paging Siobhan Sharpe of perfect Curve…
BBC3 has unveiled a new logo – basically some Roman numerals mashed with an exclamation mark – and we can’t help but feel it looks a bit familiar. Namely, it closely resembles a redesign of a logo created in BBC parody W1A, pitched to the Corporation by Jessica Hynes’ nightmarish Head of Brand Siobhan Sharpe.
Maybe the meeting for BBC3’s new look went a little bit like this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EySLuYWTy0
Or maybe the BBC3 team just took a bit of inspiration from the scene, as their own twitter account has suggested.
https://twitter.com/bbcthree/status/683981939628486656
They say the truth is stranger than fiction – but sometimes they’re just really, really similar.
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