According to the BBC website, Livingstone said the designer should not be paid for the "catastrophic mistake". "Who would go into a firm like that again and ask them to do that work. This is a pretty basic thing,” Livingstone said.
The clip, which provoked 22 complaints to the charity Epilepsy Action, is the latest in a spate of bad publicity related to the launch of the London 2012 brand identity.
Michael Wolff, of the design firm Wolff Olins, which created the logo, argued in the press that the presentation of the logo as a static image had not "done justice" to the company’s work. More than 38,000 people have signed an online petition to have the logo scrapped.
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has lambasted the video makers of a promotional film on the London 2012 website which has triggered epilepsy fits among some viewers suffering from the condition.
