Experimenting with placement and size was vital to achieving a professional, sophisticated design. Trying to make it uncluttered to achieve a harmony in it’s design, as the placement needed correcting from the current design. Correct placing of the electronic passport, to the typeface and emblem needed to be rearranged. The Nasa Graphic Standards Manual was an excellent resource in trying to understand how to create a graphical impact whilst remaining sophisticated. I believe the qualities and techniques Danne & Blackburn used in redesigning something as complex as spacecraft for Nasa aren’t so different to redesigning a passport.
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The NASA Graphics Standards Manual by Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn is a futuristic vision for an agency at the cutting edge of science and exploration.
The book features a foreword by Richard Danne, an essay by Christopher Bonanos, scans of the original manual (from Danne’s personal copy), reproductions of the original NASA 35mm slide presentation, and scans of the ‘Managers Guide’, a follow up booklet distributed by NASA.
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