{"id":20823,"date":"2023-04-26T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T03:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=20823"},"modified":"2023-04-26T20:35:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T03:35:41","slug":"a-brief-beautiful-bubble-in-design-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/26\/a-brief-beautiful-bubble-in-design-history\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A brief &#038; beautiful bubble in design history&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I always love a good dive into learning not just the <em>what<\/em> and the <em>how<\/em> of how things\u2014in this case materials from the US federal government\u2014was designed, but <em>why<\/em> things were done that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>This video\u2019s all about the briefly groovy period in which Federal designers let it all hang out. From the NASA Worm, to the EPA\u2019s funkadelic graphics, to, heck, the Department of Labor acting like it just took mushrooms, this was an unquestionably adventurous period. And then it stopped. What went wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal Graphics Improvement Program was an NEA initiative started under Richard Nixon, and its brief reign inspired design conventions, logo revamps, and graphics standards manuals. But it was also just a cash infusion rather than a bureaucratic overhaul. And as a result, we only remember toasty Federal Graphic Design, rather than enjoy its enduring legacy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How the US government got hip graphic design \u2014 and then lost it\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HAKsoiHR8JU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always love a good dive into learning not just the what and the how of how things\u2014in this case materials from the US federal government\u2014was designed, but why things were done that way. This video\u2019s all about the briefly groovy period in which Federal designers let it all hang out. From the NASA Worm, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20828,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions\/20828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}