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Fan of colourful Star Trek and sleek starships • designer • #Blender3D • fonts! • AuDHD • typos • humanist • he/him • no commissions • opinions are mine not Starfleet’s • #StarfleetFinds • #WIP https://artstation.com/starfleetdesign

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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.

Feedback and corrections welcome! Please check ALT text for additional context. 🧵 [001/???]

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

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 2h

Do you make those renders in Blender or something? I keep thinking I should make a short Lego Star Trek animation…

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Alex Thompson @cuterefaction.bsky.social · 4h

Trektober, Day 8 - Underrated Character. Rand isn't some damsel, she's the PA for one of the most dangerous men in the quadrant. She has to ask the captain to intervene in conflicts because of how bad she might hurt THEM. She paints, she does botany, Rand is awesome, no arguments taken.

Cartoon of Yeoman Janice Rand from Star Trek. She looking extremely badass and is holding a tricorder in one hand whilst firing a phaser with the other. In the background is a pink-and-black colour scheme with the words 'Janice FRICKEN' Rand' writ large. It was going to be 'Janice FUCKMOTHERING Rand' but I chickened out.

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NCC-60147-working on comms @ncc-60205.bsky.social · 3h

Probably this one. It was very experimental but it came out alright. So after that I thought maybe I should do more shit like this.

Aventine, Titan and E-E near Saturn. Inspired by the Star Trek: Destiny trilogy.

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

In my last rewatch, I felt that she had the most chemistry with Senator Cretak, who sadly didn't stay around long.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · Jun 24

I knew Struzan made this concept for an Undiscovered Country poster, but I thought that was his sole contribution to Trek. He also did a few book covers…

A concept for a Star Trek VI poster by Drew Struzan.

Kirk, Spock and McCoy by Drew Struzan. Not sure if this was for a book or not TBH, but there are TNG and Voyager ones in the same basic style that were used on novel covers.

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

Oh, you're absolutely right. That clearly represents Praxis exploding. Here it is in a TrekCore ST6 gallery. movies.trekcore.com/gallery/thum...

Movie Posters - TrekCore 'Star Trek' Movie Screencap & Image Gallery

movies.trekcore.com

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

Usually the rule seems to be that the more complex a piece is, the less I end up liking it. But this one came together exactly as I had hoped.

Once I had settled on the basic idea, at least. Full thread here…

Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · Jun 18

It was made in 2023 for a 30th anniversary art celebration of DS9 organised by @steillustrates.bsky.social

My original idea was to create a more minimalist illustration of the station, like a Cardassian propaganda poster, but I wasn’t happy with any of my initial sketches…

Detail of the top left of my illustration showing a DS9 station schematic and lots of Cardassian interface gubbins.

Detail of the top right of my illustration showing the emblem of the Cardassian Union and more UI elements.

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

This DS9 illustration from a few years ago is probably still my favourite Star Trek fan art creation.

An illustration of Terok Nor, aka Deep Space Nine, in the style of the Cardassian computer interfaces used on the show.

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Art! @punsultant.bsky.social · 8h

This is hands down the best Trek fan art I've ever made

A hand embroidered bunch of flowers in the shape of the USS Enterprise D

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, thanks! Those font threads are my magnum opus, for sure. 😄

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 7h

I'm sure there's a lot of your work I've missed, but this is my favourite of what I've seen.

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 8h

Honestly, I'm really proud of that D7 guitar. 🤘🏻

star trek lower decks fan art illustration of Mariner holding a bass guitar in the shape of a Klingon Battlecruiser. on the guitar the words say "this machine kills petaqs." which is a Klingon riff off of Woody Guthrie's guitar which had "this machine kills fascists" written on it. this is the black and white version.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 21h

I remember thinking the same thing! I think some did imitate his style, but yeah, he did all the greats.

Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, big bang theory.

I also learned recently that Dyson Spheres were actually not a serious proposal but a sarcastic scientific paper meant to ridicule the idea of SETI.

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 22h

I actually didn't know that!

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 22h

😢

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

Another chrome logo!

This one appeared on the cover of a soundtrack album by 'The Now Sound Orchestra' and also included music from Star Wars, Close Encounters and 2001: A Space Odyssey in a 'contemporary' style. [🧵]

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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 22h

Do you know why it was originally written that way though? I've often wondered, but never searched for the explanation…

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 23h

A marker drawing of Lower Decks' best/worst character: Peanut Hamper

#StarTrek

A marker drawing of Peanut Hamper, the Exocomp floating in space. To the right are two Copic Markers

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

I missed that you had already done this! Fast work.

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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a doctor, not a doodle.

star trek fan art illustration of actor Robert Picardo wearing a TOS style Starfleet uniform, holding a tiny hologram hexagon. Atop it, stands a tiny Mark 1, Emergency Medical Hologram, which Robert Picard played on Star Trek Voyager. The black background with gridded yellow lines is the holodecks.

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

Have you done art of the DS9 baseball episode? I mean, I assume you must have, but I don't recall…

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kugelfisch @kugelfische.bsky.social · Sep 12

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{ #art #spirk #startrek #fanart #spock }

A single comic page regarding Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home. The text in the page is a poem read by Leonard Nimoy. It starts at the top of the page:
"The whales turn and glisten.
Plunge and rise again
Hanging over subtly darkening deeps
Flowing like breathing planets
In the sparkling whorls of living light "

The first panel is referenced from spock swimming with grace in the film, his hand is below her eye. On the left of this pannel there is an orange, with its peel coming off in a corkscrew shape.
The panel below this is another shot of Spock swimming with Grace the whale. His head is beside her eye. On the right of this pannel there are two whales, one breeching and the other swimming. These are George and Gracie (The whales).

Below one of the whales there is a small panel of Spock standing in water wearing his robes. The water before him ripples.

To the bottom left there is kirk and spock, they are only outlines highlighted by the colours inside. In the outline there is a heart and an IDIC symbol, in their heads there is a line connecting the two's brains or thoughts. They are surrounded by orange trees with oranges on them.

At the very end, there is smaller drawing of spock and kirk walking together, the bridge in the background. There are clouds and a sun.

The entire piece has a somewhat monotone effect, with emphasis being placed upon ornages, reds and greens. Blue is used for the whales. At the bottom of the page the blues turn into purples.

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

Even without that inconvenience factor, just starting something often feels like most of the effort to me.

One of the best pieces of advice I heard along these lines was: Don't start with small tasks to get yourself warmed up; if you have any motivation at all, dive right into what you need to do.

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

Previously on Starfleet Design… 🎵

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

Another logo you can hear… ✨🖖✨

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