New Moquette For TfL

Here's a pattern Londoners will soon find themselves sitting on. It's a moquette fabric called Barman designed by WallaceSewell (Emma Sewell and Harriet Wallace-Jones) which beat 350 entries to become Transport for London's new design for seats on the Underground, as well as on overground trains, trams and buses. The East London Transit bus route between Ilford (my home town) and Dagenham Dock Station will be among the first to sport the new design in 2011. The colours are pleasant, relaxing and patriotic, but the abstract London Eye in red looks like a chopped off question mark. Why London? Why TfL? Why me?