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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · Oct 6

#StarTrek Fonts: The Thread

This thread is going to cover the official typefaces used for on-screen titles and marketing materials etc. Not in-universe graphics, alien scripts or any of that.

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FONTS! [the word rendered using different iconic Star Trek fonts]

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 3h

That's a brilliant idea.

It'll probably happen, even if not for Sky Captain 2. Though we are rapidly losing a lot of that institutional knowledge. And if they want to shoot and edit on film too, that's going to be a LOT more expensive than it ever used to be.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 3h

That's one of my favourites.

Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 3h

For clarification, the official Psygnosis logos that I found on box art, screenshots, etc, either had the owl ball element by the side, or omitted it. This third version (pic #5) seems to be fan art by pixel artist Philippe Lesire.

I recreated it anyway because I liked it.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 10h

The Psygnosis logo was designed by fantasy and SF artist Roger Dean, who I learned also designed the Tetris logo (and many others).

This version with the owl face in the background may have been a fan composition, I'm not sure. I didn't see it on any official materials.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 4h

Thank ye sir

Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 6h

Leto has the distinction of being actually repulsive to me. The others I can happily take or leave.

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 20h

The unlicensed Astro Boy I'm designing is moving along. I have no idea what I'm doing in this space or whether anyone would want to buy it. If you have advice, I'm all ears!

I just know I am compelled to make it, and keep it as close to Tezuka's original lineart as possible. So much research!

Astro 3D sculpt, and blueprint of what's in him, based on all the artwork Osamu Tezuka has of Astro Boy dissected or X-Rayed (that's 6 drawings!)

cover for the Kappa Comics De Luxe Astro Boy, Issue 1. Original Osamu Tezuka view of Astro's insides

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 9h

Funnily enough, I saw that while I was collecting reference images and had the same thought!

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 9h

Oscar Chichoni, cover art for Starship Titanic, 1997

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 10h

And this is a little collage of some of the key reference material I used.

I still have a few more bits to do, but I wanted to post this today anyway. I'll link to the completed project on ArtStation later.

A collage of Psygnosis reference material, like packaging, screenshots, business cards etc.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 10h

A few other variants and styles I threw together…

Recreation of a Commodore 64 cassette for the Psygnosis game 'Barbarian'. Cassette is vector art too (with some raster textures).

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 10h

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 10h

Vector recreation of the iconic Psygnosis logo.

Psygnosis were a video game developer and publisher from '84 to '99, perhaps most famous for Lemmings and WipeOut. At least to me. I was also fond of a mech shooter called Walker. [🧵]

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 20h

You should try some slow-motion shots! I did this with some of my local crows a while back. 😄

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 20h

Oh wow, I watched his videos for a long time! I'll have to check out how his journey ended.

Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 20h

Oh, I have a couple of these. The "Narcissus" and "Millennium Falcon" ones. Don't think I ever saw that packaging before tho.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 1d

Current #WIP logo recreation. Plus a bonus tutorial detailing my process…

The 'How to draw an owl' meme:

1. Draw some circles
2. Draw the rest of the fucking owl

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · May 11

☝️ Vector recreations of the Flash Gordon logo from the 1980 film, plus a few others.

I used textures quite liberally, but I still went a bit overboard making the vinyl record and CD case in Affinity Designer. 😅 [🧵]

Detail of the first pic. Don't you hate it when the labels won't peel off?

Vector outlines of the compact disc case, screenshot from within Affinity Designer. I made layers for the back, inner tray, front, etc, all to simulate the depth of the plastic. Also, note the staples!

Vector outlines of the vinyl LP and its sticker, screenshot from within Affinity Designer. And yes, the track is a spiral! Lighting was simulated using gradients, etc. IIRC, there was only one texture used for the fine scratches.

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AndyPurro @andydpurromann.bsky.social · 1d

Revising the K'T'Inga Battlecruiser refit to something more faithful to the original game asset, stripping the disco inspired structures that made it look more regal and overhauled some areas and redone the Nacelles!

Also dulled the colour of the hull

#StarTrekOnline #Blender3D #WIP

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grace @block-618.com · 1d

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JoeRalat @joeralat.bsky.social · 1d

This production art is a spoof of the runnabout shuttle used in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and features a small mouse piloting a ship made from a piece of cheese.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 1d

Sternbach? From that Spaceflight Chronology book?

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 1d

Sci-fi / horror film & TV and futurist magazines were the life blood of a kid throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 1d

BTW, for anyone coming from retro gaming Bsky this isn't the first logo from this era that I've recreated. There are a few other gaming bits on my ArtStation portfolio…

www.artstation.com/artwork/x3Pmg1

Ocean Software logo (1983-1998), StarfleetDesign

Logo for Ocean Software, a British video game developer and publisher founded in 1983 until it merged with Infogrames (1996) and rebranded to Infrogrames in 1998. I reproduced this initially when I ma...

www.artstation.com

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, thank you. Should be posting the final version(s) before the weekend.