notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

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.

The American Bicentennial logo from 1976, as designed by Bruce N. Blackburn.

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.

The old Thames TV ident. I always thought that Tower Bridge looked a bit like a rocket.

(via psd)

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.

In case you’d forgotten: Wolff Olins : London 2012.

The 2016 Olympic Games identity is a logo that dances on the sand - a post on the Rio games identity at Eye Magazine.

It’s probably because I’m a fan of hard-edges, sharpness and blocks of colour, but I absolutely hate this logo, whereas the London 2012 design (which everyone else seems to hate) strikes me as pretty good.

Even if this gets no further than the current teaser page, this project is still fantastic. More teasers.

Intercity APT T-shirt, from Teemarto. Lovely. (Good that they offer a choice of colours, too.)

This is one of the prizes for the (quite tricky) London Reconnections quiz (via).