Official Symbol of the American Revolution Bicentennial: Official Graphics Standards Manual

$45.00 at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

The 1976 American Revolution Bicentennial symbol was the logo for America's 200th birthday party and a precursor to the NASA logo that Bruce Blackburn at Chermayeff & Geismar would design in 1974. This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original, wrapped in a black jacket with a foreward from Bruce Blackburn and an essay from Christopher Bonanos. Standards Manual is a New York City based independent publishing imprint founded by designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth in 2014, striving to archive and…