2012-01-07
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One of the classic British graphic identities (and there are many).
(via hammerandcode)
2011-08-03
NASA: Something is missing
- (Richard Danne quotes NASA’s Administrator, Dr. James Fletcher, and Deputy Administrator, Dr. George Low, having the following exchange)
- Fletcher: I’m simply not comfortable with those letters, something is missing.
- Low: Well, yes, the cross stroke is gone from the letter A.
- Fletcher: Yes, and that bothers me.
- Low: Why?
- Fletcher: (long pause) I just don’t feel we are getting our money’s worth!
2011-08-01
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Wim Crouwel’s Rotterdam hexagon urban identity as seen at Kosmograd (via)
2011-07-20
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New York Power Authority logo, by Dunne & Blackburn, 1983, at the AIGA Design Archives.
Unlike the NASA design identity by the same firm, it’s still in use.
2011-06-17
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NASA never placed their logotype on the Vehicle Assembly Building, but they did use the same designer’s American Bicentennial logo, which survived until 1992.
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The American Bicentennial logo from 1976, as designed by Bruce N. Blackburn.
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The NASA Logotype standards manual.
The logotype was designed by Bruce N. Blackburn, and used from 1975 to 1992, when, shamefully, Daniel Goldin, then NASA Administrator, reverted to the previous design.
In Creative Review’s recent Logos issue, it was the only entry in the top 20 that was no longer in use.
2011-03-04
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The old Thames TV ident. I always thought that Tower Bridge looked a bit like a rocket.
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2011-02-09
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![Archives and the brilliant modernism of Theyre Lee-Elliott at Quad Royal:
This very pure, almost continental modernist design is by Theyre Lee-Elliott, who I’d never come across before. But it turns out that he also designed the archetypal airmail wings, as well as the Imperial Airways Speedbird logo, a design which endured beyond Imperial’s incorporation into BOAC and well into the time of British Airways. Those two designs alone – both classics which survived well past World War Two and beyond – should have been enough to secure [him] more fame than he currently has.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgc60udx8l1qz4vjro1_500.jpg)
Archives and the brilliant modernism of Theyre Lee-Elliott at Quad Royal:
This very pure, almost continental modernist design is by Theyre Lee-Elliott, who I’d never come across before. But it turns out that he also designed the archetypal airmail wings, as well as the Imperial Airways Speedbird logo, a design which endured beyond Imperial’s incorporation into BOAC and well into the time of British Airways. Those two designs alone – both classics which survived well past World War Two and beyond – should have been enough to secure [him] more fame than he currently has.
