Phillip Cooper, an organizer of the conference who proudly wore his BedBug Central company logo shirt, said this was the biggest, broadest meeting of its kind since bedbugs began making their miserable return.
On the television side, Wal-Mart will cull titles from networks big and small, like Comedy Central, CW, FX, Logo, MTV and Nickelodeon.
And before Mr Osborne's speech, the central Tory tree logo behind him turned out to be a tree-shaped video screen, showing not leaves or forests but gritty images of building sites and factories (on a side note reserved for Britons of a certain age, the effect was oddly reminiscent of BBC television's Playschool, and looking through the round, square or arched window).
Twenty minutes of brisk outlining and six hours of bloody fill work later, I had a recreation of the asterisk on Anthony Kiedis's wrist, which I hadn't realized was the central motif in the logo for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Designer Michael Beirut of Pentagram chose the clock in the center of Grand Central as the new logo because he felt it was most emblematic of the rendezvous experience of the station.
In parts of central Harlem, bootleg Gucci-logo fabrics are now much in use as insets customizing Timberland boots.
It's not that Grand Central Terminal was lacking a logo to commemorate its 100th anniversary next year.
Saeco, whose geometric S logo decorates a central knob like a hood ornament, was founded in 1981, and a few years ago gobbled up the venerable Gaggia brand.
In a sign that the Metro-North Railroad is preparing to celebrate the centenary of Grand Central Terminal next year, a new logo began appearing this week on display screens in the main concourse.
