I miss NASA's "worm Logo"

[Orbital Vagabond]

For anyone who doesn't know, the "Worm logo" is the modern, stylized logo that was used by NASA between 1975 and 1992.

As a child of the 80's, this was the first logo I ever saw for NASA, and, man, I just realized how much I miss it after looking through some old NASA stuff. It's just so clean, and minimalistic... I've always preferred it to the "meatball" logo.

Anyone else feel me on this?

[NovaSilisko]

I like both, and wouldn't mind both being used. Just fit them in different places depending on the spaces available. Or, perhaps, merge the two. Replace the serif text on the meatball with the worm text in white.

[Kryten]

As somebody not old enough to remember it in use, it just looks dated. The style is very 70s.

[razark]

Hate the worm. Meatball forever!

[Flymetothemun]

Fun Fact: The "Meatball" logo was actually the original logo, and was made after the NACA turned into NASA. It was made as a graphic that would be used for less formal occasions, and is based on the NASA seal, which was made first before the meatball and worm logos at the very start of NASA. The official seal would've been used for more formal occasions and nowadays is only used by the Administrator for awards and other such things. The "Worm" logo was actually made in 1974 when the government launched a "Graphics Improvement Program" and NASA got some National Endowment for the Arts funding to give to an artist to design a more modern NASA logo. The "Worm" was retired in 1991.

I prefer the Worm on spacecraft and the Meatball on buildings, uniforms, shirts, and ground vehicles.

[Orbital Vagabond]

Yeah, I know the meatball was the original logo, and it looks REALLY dated to me. The worm was in use from Apollo-Soyuz through early "shuttle years", and it just always sat well with me, certainly better than reviving an older design. I guess I'm in the minority on this one. /shrug

[NovaSilisko]

Couldn't help myself. Behold, the meatworm (or wormball)

I actually like it more than I thought I would.

[Kibble]

I freaking love the Worm! Incidentally I also freaking love the Eighties.

[Bill Phil]

Never doubt the Worm.

I actually like both. The meatworm looks pretty cool.

[Newt]

I also have always liked this one. A bit older still.

[dryer_lint]

The Official NovaSilisko Meatworm-Wormball Complex: Iconographic Logo looks pretty nice. I like it.

We couldn't decide on a name so I went with this. Don't judge.

[Special Agent Sigvan]

Hail the worm.

[Dispatcher]

I like this:

[NovaSilisko]

[KerbMav]

Sorry.

[Whirligig Girl]

I modified NovaSilisko's Wormball, now it's a minimalist logo.

[razark]

I modified NovaSilisko's Wormball, now it's a minimalist logo.

That's just taking wrong and making it wronger.

[Albert VDS]

The worm logo looks like it was made for an electronics company.

In fact, it fits right in with samsung:

Or how about the CNN logo:

The "meatball" logo actually explains what NASA is.

[Camacha]

In fact, it fits right in with samsung:

Typographically it looks nothing like the Samsung logo. The only thing they have in common is the cut out A, which is a bit gimmicky.

[FishInferno]

The "meatball" logo actually explains what NASA is.

This^^

[Dodgey]

That's just taking wrong and making it wronger.

I don't think so. The normal meat ball is starting to look dated to me. Gregroxmuns redesign looks more modern, that being said I like Novas the best.

[Camacha]

The "meatball" logo actually explains what NASA is.

They are a dirty blue Frisbee with bird poop and a weirdly red twig on it?

[RogueMason]

Couldn't help myself. Behold, the meatworm (or wormball)

http://i.imgur.com/c852qDe.png

I actually like it more than I thought I would.

That's actually pretty cool.

[Nikolai]

I grew up with the worm logo, but much prefer the meatball to the worm. It looks like it alludes to something, and as such is fitting as an emblem you'd put on vehicles, rather than a corporate logo designed to be plastered on buildings that just sit there. (Corporate names don't even need to make sense. What is a "Verizon"? Or a "Magnavox"? They're abstract in the extreme, and even though it doesn't fit as much these days, I like to think of NASA as potentially being known for doing stuff when it gets its act together.)

[basic.syntax]

This logo for the Canadian National Railway was commended in a comment about various corporation logos, as being a perfect fit: just looking at it, you can hear a train going around the track.