Return from the dead!
owen, student
Saturday, December 19, 2009 14:36 |
The worm sucked. It screamed 8o's corportate bullshit. I could see it next to the 5 color apple or the stretch armstrong logo, maybe the font on the cover of "boogie nights"
Andy Thornberry, US Army
Monday, June 15, 2009 19:44 |
The nasa worm logo is based on pictures of a space worm we got with voyager. Now that the damn worm ate the millenium falcon, they're changing the logo. political bullshit.
My worms the biggest
Saturday, March 14, 2009 05:29 |
I hate to speak ill of the dead, but good Lord, somebody's got to. What's wrong with you people?
First, the so-called "new" logo (the "meatball") is the original Nasa logo. The worm, that's the imposter -- and I'm very glad Nasa corrected the error of their ways and restored the classic design.
The meatball is all about right-stuff, can-do, space-googie cool. It has soul. And it looks fabulous on the sides of spaceships.
The worm, on the other hand, is narcissistic '70s corporate bland. It comes from the same tradition that brought us the oh-so-inhumane stick figures on public bathroom doors.
If the meatball is a bomber jacket, the worm is a Member's Only jacket. And it's just as well that the worm logo should look so uncool, as it is also emblematic of the space agency's worst years.
Ernst
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 09:40 |
The Worm logo does bring back memories, and is way more modern looking than the old fashioned logo they have now. Of course, that relic look nice on a blue t-shirt but looks hopefully outdated on a modern-day rocket. When the spaceshuttle retires, it would be the perfect timing to bring the wormlogo back! And yes, I wear my wormlogo polo with pride.
Dirkjan
Friday, June 20, 2008 19:02 |
What if they did a refresh of the worm? Its so simple and distinctive. It feels a tad dated, so a refresh could be amazing.
Peter McRae
McRae Creative
Peter McRae, McRae Creative Group, Inc.
Thursday, February 07, 2008 23:11 |
Simple yet elegant in design, this logo has been synonymous with space exploration during it's time. It is a shame to see this one go.
Jasmine Christian, Honblue inc
Sunday, January 20, 2008 04:32 |
|\|/\S/\, you were so cool and simple. I didn't realize you got laid off in the 90's, just figured they were using two logos. You will be missed, as will the Jetsons' future...
mexist, mexist.com
Saturday, November 24, 2007 07:41 |
the old meatball still looks dated, and looks fiddly to replicate! the worm one is probably ageless as its so simple. they should have used both of them, IMO.
kevin, -
Sunday, August 20, 2006 18:29 |
N/\S/\
( the future is now )
metalbass.com, metalbass.com
Thursday, June 29, 2006 04:46 |
I was disappointed when I realized they has stopped using this logo. It was great because it was very simple, modern and techie with a dash of Cold War thrown in.
Myrna
Sunday, May 21, 2006 21:08 |
Well... Why not?... I think that one or more trademarks can be exists for ever. Like Adidas Logo®. I believe on these retro creations!
Diego Sandoval, DIEGOSANDOVAL.COM
Monday, May 15, 2006 00:38 |
Take a bunch of "Rocket Scientists" (literally) then take a really good logo that works really well and replace it with one that doesn't. The perfect NASA analogy. It turns out that changing the logo doesn't make the tiles stick any better.
Is there intelligent life here on Earth?
Robert Mead, ACS Group
Saturday, January 07, 2006 01:09 |
Warm logo was great. I don't understand why it has been changed for "Meatball". Worm had modern feeling and fresh spirit within. I remeber when I was a child and watched shuttles liftoffs in TV, Worm logo was looking just beautiful on the wings of orbiters. I hope it'll back to us someday...
Adalbert, IMJT
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 15:19 |
As I understand it, the old "meatball" logo was brought back after such debacles as the Challenger disaster and the failure of several launches. Bringing back an old logo will not guarantee success for a troubled agency; ensuring that launches are successful, settling goals and attaining them will. Had the NASA leaders focused their efforts on going back to the moon in the 1970s and 1980s as opposed to building the shuttle system, there might not have been a Challenger disaster, and there might not have been a need to bring back the "worm" logo. Logos alone don't guarantee the viability of an agency; successful programs do.
Joel Bader
Thursday, November 10, 2005 21:50 |
What a shame this mark was very famous and brings back many childhood memories
It was foward looking and not dated at all said "space" all over it.
Ulmtimate solution replace the dated Nasa font in the "new" nasa logo with worm logo as the official mark
use worm logo on all space craft ;)
Mark J
Wednesday, October 12, 2005 00:01 |
Will it make a comeback ?? Why does nobody sell 'worm' logo polo shirts online ??
Nick McGeoghan, Royal Mail
Monday, October 10, 2005 18:10 |
I couldnt believe it when they got rid of the worm. I grew up with the worm and loved every second of it. I guess the meatball isnt so bad they could have done worse I suppose.
Jason Harris
Tuesday, August 16, 2005 16:54 |
Come to think of it,there are some dead logos alive on the Yahoo Closing Logo Group (CLG) group sites.
Anyone remember the Screen Gems
scratchmark or Dancing Stcks logo?
It was replaced in the mid 1960's by the Screen Gems yellow/red stylized 'S' logo. Some of the Closing Logo group members nickname it the S From Hell
because of the music & animation.
The current version of it is silver/blue on a black background which is the movie version nicknamed the S From Heaven.
Mathew Bailey, Yahoo CLG
Friday, July 29, 2005 19:06 |
as a designer (from germany), i can't believe why they did it ... i grew up (born 1959) with the worm and loved it.
markus schmidt, design
Thursday, July 28, 2005 19:06 |
i agree with davide g. & others who like the old one better. Nothing's wrong with the worm. The new one is deterioration. To whoever likes it, you can eat that meatball.
hanggoro, beemotion
Wednesday, July 27, 2005 23:02 |
What the f is going on around here? Are people just stupid? The worm rocks! Are the minds of executives around the world rotting? Maybe they were already rotten. RIP worm. You were a good worm, the best anyone could have wished for.
Benjamin Parco
Friday, July 22, 2005 18:02 |
The meatball is such a bunch of crap. I have no idea why people even remotely like that logo. I really don't understand how a 4 year old couldn't design that. Am I too harsh? Worm forever!
Davide Giliati, dgiliati design
Thursday, July 21, 2005 15:24 |
I liked both the "Worm "and "Meatball "logos used by NASA. They should have couninued to use both of them at the same time, I read at one time the
Worm would be used for marketing and the Meatball would be used for Identity.
Bigg Will, PRSF
Thursday, July 21, 2005 10:31 |
This was a inspirational logo for me, its a shame that its not being used any more, the new/old one isnt too bad either though.
Miles
Friday, July 01, 2005 15:35 |
Everything old is new again. While former administrator Dan Goldin brought back the meatball because it supposedly evoked the history and thrill of space flight, as a child of the 80's I can't help but feel nostalgic for the worm.
When I was in college, studying graphic design, several pages from the Worm's corporate identity manual were included as examples of branding. It was truly a thing of beauty. The combination of the worm logotype with well-used, crisp Helvetica will always stand proudly as one of the things that inspired me to be a graphic designer.
MT
Sunday, June 05, 2005 04:45 |
The "Death" of the NASA Worm Logo is a bit premature. I believe the logo is more popular than ever! It's the "People's" logo. Why can't there be both? I think the administrator who championed the retirement of the worm logo sadly and severly underestimated it's popularity! Long live the worm!
Clark Walker
Monday, May 30, 2005 17:12 |
The worm is indeed gone, but not forgotten. She was proudly worn on the wings of the dear, departed Challenger. She was also worn on the fuselage of the the now-gone Columbia--the only shuttle during the Worm Era not to wear either the US flag or any NASA emblem on her wing. The Worm is the logo I grew up with, not just watching the shuttle, but also those great educational films NASA put out. It's a great logo, and one whose memory will stay alive with those who still love it.
Claxton
Tuesday, May 24, 2005 02:23 |
Reducing the letters N-A-S-A to their simplest form, and hence the abstraction of the A's into minimal cones that metaphorically suggest rockets, was a masterstroke. These curvy minimalist strokes gave a feeling of unity, technological precision, thrust and orientation toward the future. Worm R.I.P.
Catherine Bakker, o2, London
Monday, February 28, 2005 12:05 |
one of the greatest logos ever. the corporative and institutional design of the seventies at its best.
auggie
Wednesday, October 20, 2004 06:21 |
I guess I never knew that this logo was officially "dead". I thought the two were pretty much interchangeable. Pitty. I kind of liked this one.
Alex Foley
Wednesday, September 08, 2004 19:14 |
Die damned worm. I hate you,i hate the 70s ! MEATBALL FOREVER!!!!! And now the next step is return at silver space suit.
Carmelo Pugliatti
Friday, June 25, 2004 03:31 |
E VISTO UN OSNI
PIKA, GARRULO
Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:02 |
A pity... the new one is so American... anyway, they pay for it. Let them have as much terrible logos as they want.
Alex
Sunday, February 22, 2004 10:10 |
The worm instantly brings up memories of growing up on astronaut ice cream and day-dreaming in class about floating in space, what with all that fuzzy hopefulness of a reinvigorated NASA in the mid-to-post 80s... Poor poor worm you will be missed. How you got replaced by that monster of an anachronism is mystifying.
tc, eh...
Sunday, December 21, 2003 12:27 |
Hmm. While I have to admit that I vastly prefer the Meatball, they co-existed for many years.
Why the change?
C Michaels
Wednesday, December 17, 2003 20:31 |
View the new identity standards manual here: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/insignia/
Eric Vivian
Monday, December 15, 2003 23:48 |
What I would do for this identity standards manual ...
Alexander Shoukas, AESGraphic
Monday, December 15, 2003 20:04 |
The worm did not die naturally, it was killed by Dan Goldin. In a series of 1984-like obfuscations, the worm was eradicated from NASA.
Rob
Sunday, December 14, 2003 20:09 |
When I was a child I wanted to be an astronaut. I think it was because two things. First: the task of NASA: take the man where belongs: the stars. And second: the so simple but eye-catching Worm that leaded me to the future in space. I can remember the first Columbia landing and asking to my father -What is that?. The future-he answered. In the other hand I understand the Meatball represent the glorious past of NASA but may be the recent tragic events means that NASA has lost that "view of the future"
Marcelo Spinelli, A Blue World Design
Wednesday, December 10, 2003 15:11 |
I didn't know this was dead! How could NASA have taking this away from us?! What a real shame!
Paul Cowling, Fitch
Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:59 |
Although buried - and over 20 years since its appearence - it still inspires! Note the recent RAC identity.
John Gervais, Browns
Monday, December 08, 2003 17:10 |
There's a really cool site that celebrates 'sightings' of the worm... check: http://www.nasawatch.com/worm.watch.html
Judith Davis, SpaceBar Design
Friday, December 05, 2003 12:16 |
I can't believe that NASA returned to their 1950s logotype - the 'Meatball''. What a shame the worm was buried...
Anne Milton, Den Haag
Wednesday, December 03, 2003 16:30 |
Dear Worm, you will be in our hearts forever!
Warren Timberlake, Front 2 Design
Tuesday, December 02, 2003 23:05 |
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