and before long the worm replaced the meatball as the agency's official logo. It looked great, but there was one problem: While considered a victory for graphic design, many of NASA’s employees ...

Decades after sending it to design purgatory, the space agency celebrates a logo it still calls the worm. Credit... Supported by By Kenneth Chang Last month, NASA welcomed Richard Danne to its ...

[Image: NASA] The question is, why? Why does a logo that was only in use for 17 years—and was retired for 28—have such staying power? It comes down to three components: its removal, its design ...

This is further proof that NASA uses a ridiculous naming scheme for its logos, and their story was detailed by Design Week in 2021, shortly after the worm logo reappeared after nearly a thirty ...

Dan Goldin, NASA’s administrator in 1992, brought back the primary logo design to “invoke” the nostalgia of the Apollo missions. Aside from NASA’s primary logo, the space agency uses a ...

a modern aerospace era,” NASA writes. Enter Danne and Blackburn, who created the worm logo in 1975 under the Federal Design Improvement Program. The logotype is starkly pared down in comparison ...

The glorious NASA “worm” logo is officially back ... Enter a cleaner, sleeker design born of the Federal Design Improvement Program and officially introduced in 1975. It featured a simple ...

The worm logo was first used in 1975 after being designed by Danne & Blackburn, a New York-based studio who recreated the NASA wording under the U.S. Federal Design Improvement Program ...

Coach originally approached NASA to ask if it could use the “worm” logo, the retro design that the space agency used from 1975 through 1992. NASA, which had barred the use of the worm after it ...