Happy Birthday, NASA
Posted by Sunday on Oct 1, 2008 at 6:03 am in Daily Space
50 years old, and not looking so fresh. Remember when they unveiled this “updated” logo? It’s like New Coke. Looking at the old one is a lesson in jumping the shark.
See, look at that. Simple. Unique. Timeless, if you don’t count times where human beings ruin everything. Here’s sincerely hoping that you’ll somehow pull it all back together again, from all of us here at GalacticMu.
Just realized, the original logo looks like Space Spermy trying to sneak it’s way into that big red ‘V’ … heh hehheh
Sorry, I guess I didn’t make it very clear: the top one, the spermy one, is the NEW logo. The original one is the black and white one, referred to as “the worm” logo.
Caption under the new one threw me. My powers of observation to logos lately, are in dry-dock, eh? I thought the ‘wormy’ one was still in use. I like it! Spacey-er I think.
WTF? The ‘new’ one looks out-of-date, like something from a Disney Flight to Mars flick. And the ‘old’ one looks fresh, like something you’d see on patches of crew members in a good scifi movie!
Oh NASA, we hardly knew ya …
For their 50th they should have gone retro and unveiled a new new logo that was just like the old. Ah well. Maybe for their 75th.
NYPinTA, that would have been an awesome idea. But I remember there being a huge brouhaha over it when they changed it, people (me) we really upset. Not only did it not need to be updated, but the original is to this day one of the greatest logos ever designed. I mean, remember when logo designers would actually make up their own fonts?