NASA Emblem Design

Emblem design within the aerospace community is very much different from logo design in the civilian markets. The first audience for a NASA design tends to process visual concepts literally and are unsurpassed in their knowledge of subjects. Yet the design must resonate with a larger audience for the purposes of team building, lobbying, and public outreach. Both require securing the confidence of the customer in the design and an understanding of how the target audience will receive it. I’ve achieved these goals, repeatedly.

The emblem design for the Technology Applications and Science (TAS-01) mission is the only official mission emblem designed in a cooperative agreement between NASA and Warner Bros. during the entirety of the Space Shuttle Program. I was honored and grateful to be selected for this project from amongst a large pool of candidates. This design has been displayed at the Air and Space Museum, The Smithsonian Museum and the Warner Bros. corporate museum.

The success and popularity of the TAS-01 emblem design led to my being commissioned to design the emblem for Satélite de Aplicaciones Científico-A (SAC-A), the first satellite flown by the country of Argentina. I was deeply honored and gratified that this work helped promote international cooperation between the United States and Argentina, and will forever be a part of the history of both nations. This design was displayed at the Air and Space Museum and the Smithsonian Museum.

Some missions were so complex and required so many diverse disciplines that the teams working on subsystems and components merited their own emblems. I designed the ISIM and NiRCAM subsystem emblems for the James Webb Space Telescope and the COS emblem for Hubble Space Telescope.