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Last week NASA released in full its circa-1976 “NASA Graphics Standards Manual” to the public after a demand was raised by a Kickstarter campaign to release it in glorious hardback. The hefty ...
9/1/2015: NASA uses its classic meatball logo today for everything, but from the mid-70s to the early-90s, there was a different logo: the worm.Created by graphic design company Danne & Blackburn ...
Here's Your Chance to Cop NASA's Old Design Manual Featuring Its Lost "Worm" Logo. This Kickerstarter campaign will reissue the 1975 NASA Graphics Standard Manual, which was rescinded in 1992.
From the meatball, to the worm and now Artemis, graphic designers at NASA have branded the face of space travel for decades. By Molly Long October 31, 2019 3:05 pm October 31, 2019 3:05 pm Beyond ...
The “worm” logo along with the graphics manual for integrating it were both retired in 1992 with the introduction of NASA’s current design but through a new Kickstarter, the manual is being ...
Graphic design junkies have a chance to reserve a copy of a coveted NASA Graphics Standards Manual on Kickstarter until October 4. The manual first went to print in 1975 and lays out the insignia ...
The Brooklyn-based publishing company, Standards Manual, has produced a series of meticulously crafted facsimiles of design manuals, from the New York City Subway to NASA.
The manual perfectly encapsulates a defining moment in scientific and graphic design history. NASA issued the manual, developed by New York design studio Danne & Blackburn, in January, 1976.
The NASA Graphics Standards Manual, which in 1976 defined the use of now-retired NASA "worm" logo, is getting a limited reissue through Kickstarter. ... "From a graphic designer's perspective, ...
Graphic design is literally his passion. Richard Danne, designer of the NASA worm logotype, joins us for a look back at the history and legacy of this iconic emblem of exploration.
The title of this article ‘NASA creative team shares its “out of this world” design secrets’. Yet the one notable secret NASA manages to not share is the woman who designed both the ‘Artemis’ and ...