Story behind the Federal Design Improvement Program explored in new zine

On May 26 1971, then-US president Richard Nixon issued a memorandum to the heads of all federal departments and agencies. The note addressed what the president called an “increasing awareness” of the arts among the American populus – an observation that kick started a decade of high-profile design improvements made to government departments and agencies, known as the Federal Design Improvement Program (FDIP).
The program – which produced now-iconic logos like the NASA Wor