diff --git a/packages/angular-cli/commands/version.ts b/packages/angular-cli/commands/version.ts
index c37dc3ea4e9f..00a823a7784d 100644
--- a/packages/angular-cli/commands/version.ts
+++ b/packages/angular-cli/commands/version.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 const Command = require('../ember-cli/lib/models/command');
 import * as path from 'path';
 import * as child_process from 'child_process';
+import * as chalk from 'chalk';
 
 const VersionCommand = Command.extend({
   name: 'version',
@@ -45,6 +46,14 @@ const VersionCommand = Command.extend({
         versions = Object.assign(versions, this.getDependencyVersions(projPkg, root));
       });
     }
+    const asciiArt = `
+                             _                           _  _
+  __ _  _ __    __ _  _   _ | |  __ _  _ __         ___ | |(_)
+ / _\` || '_ \\  / _\` || | | || | / _\` || '__|_____  / __|| || |
+| (_| || | | || (_| || |_| || || (_| || |  |_____|| (__ | || |
+ \\__,_||_| |_| \\__, | \\__,_||_| \\__,_||_|          \\___||_||_|
+               |___/`;
+    this.ui.writeLine(chalk.red(asciiArt));
     this.printVersion('angular-cli', ngCliVersion);
 
     for (const module of Object.keys(versions)) {