Off planet design...have noteworthy designers tried?  

Nothing could be more fundamentally modern than design for astronauts (and eventual space tourists) and for tools and appliances they need in space. Have any respected modernist or neomodernist designers designed anything for space, or have the aerospace engineers been assigned all the work over the years? Some of the logos of the space agencies are about all I see that looks done by professional designers. Have any respected modernist or neomodernist product designers been asked to step in and design the tools and appliances, interiors and accessories space travel requires?

As space tourism is in its planning and feasibility phases aimed apparently mostly at the extremely wealthy, have any major designers been asked to participate?

If not, perhaps a group of innovative young designers should form a small design collective and draw, or otherwise model, some concepts for space goods that introduces good design to the process. Surely, with the competition between NASA and the European Space Agency, and the rise of private space enterprise, one of these organizations would be interested in branding itself differently from the rest through superior design, as well as superior engineering.

Grcich in space, anyone?

Now this would be modernist design taking the high ground. 🙂