07.30.2021
Today’s updates come from information and screencaps from Jörg Hillebrand at Ex Astris Scientia!
I’ve added a new page featuring Anna Castelli Ferrieri’s 4855 Chair (used in The Next Generation).
And two new screencaps to:
Platner Arm Chair designed by Warren Platner for Knoll (to reflect its use in TNG)
Platner Lounge Chair designed by Warren Platner for Knoll (also to reflect its use in TNG)
07.28.2021
Today, Star Trek + Design was featured in VISLA, a Seoul-based fashion, music, and culture publication!
It’s also been a big week and a deep rabbit hole for finding chairs used in Trek, and I’ve added 11 new items to the Seating page:
Arrben’s Dining Chair (used in DS9, First Contact, Insurrection, and Nemesis)
Andrea Branzi’s Revers Chair (used in Deep Space Nine)
Izzy+’s Hannah Stacking Chair (used in Enterprise)
Robert Kjer Jakobsen’s Side Chair (used in Enterprise)
Karim Rashid’s Oh Chair (used in Enterprise)
Stephane Rondel’s Peanut Chair (used in Voyager)
Studio Archirivolto’s Dining Chair (used in The Next Generation)
Giuseppe Terragni’s Follia Chair (used in Deep Space Nine)
Ramon Benedito’s Frenesí Stool (used in Voyager)
Jørgen Høvelskov’s Harp Chair (used in The Undiscovered Country)
Vladimir Kagan’s Nautilus Chair (used in Deep Space Nine)
I was debating whether or not I should make a page for Giuseppe Terragni’s Follia chair, given that the designer was a part of the Fascist political machine during the Mussolini regime, and I’d never want to honor a fascist or their work. I ultimately decided to make the page, because any time I see a dealer selling his work online, they only ever mention his contributions to design, and never how he was a fascist sycophant, a coward, and a singularly reprehensible person. So I decided it was worthwhile to share his work so long as I could write his bio correctly.
On a lighter note, I also added new screencaps for three previously sourced objects:
Lounge Chair designed by Vladimir Kagan for Directional (to reflect its use in Nemesis)
Dining Chair designed by Robert Josten (to reflect its use in the ENT episode, “Cold Station 12”)
Ribbon Wall Sculpture by C. Jeré (to reflect its use in DS9)
07.21.2021
I’ve added five new objects to the Lighting page, all of which were originally identified by Ex Astris Scientia:
Perry King and Santiago Miranda’s Aura Sconce (used in Deep Space Nine)
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche’s Jazz Lamp (used in The Undiscovered Country, The Next Generation, Voyager, and Enterprise)
Aaron Probyn’s IKEA EVEDAL Lamp (used in Picard)
Ron Rezek’s Arno Sconce (used in The Undiscovered Country and The Next Generation)
David Wahl’s IKEA PS 214 Light (used in Picard)
07.20.2021
I’ve added new pages featuring three identified objects:
Michael Graves’s Water Pitcher (used in Enterprise)
Carsten Jorgensen’s Bodum Flatware (used in TNG)
Jorge Pensi’s Pensi Cafe Table (used in Voyager)
07.19.2021
I’ve added pages featuring two newly identified objects:
Sasaki’s Suninke Wine Glass (used in Deep Space Nine and Voyager)
Hivo Van Teal’s Pyramid Sculpture (used in Deep Space Nine)
I added a new screencap to the Calacatta Gray Teacup and Saucer by Sasaki page to reflect it’s use in the DS9 episode, “Ties of Blood and Water,” and another to the Balzo Chair and Sofa designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini for Moroso to reflect it’s use in DS9.
I also spent the day integrating the Mugs + Teacups and Glassware pages into a single Glassware page. I used the same, kind of annoying, method that I used for creating the recent Seating page, so if anyone finds any issues or bad links, please feel free to email me at eno@star-trek.design so I can fix it.
07.18.2021
I didn’t update the News page at the time, but the other day I added a page featuring:
Wayne Strattman’s Luminglas Plasma Disk (used in Voyager and First Contact)
Today I’ve added one new page featuring:
Gino Lemson’s Angel Contract Dimple Closed Shell Chair (used in Discovery)
And added a new screencap to the Acrylic Serving Dish by Tupperware page to reflect its use in the TNG episode, “The Child.”
I managed to find a way to circumvent the 40-item limit on portfolio pages, and have condensed the various chairs pages into a single Seating page. Unfortunately, the process is a bit tedious, so to make things easier on myself, I kept the original item page urls which is why the they still display the original “Stools + Dining Chairs,” “Sofas + Lounge Chairs,” etc. page locations. Maybe I’ll reorganize these eventually, but for now I just wanted a user-friendly way to navigate Seating without having four different category pages for it. I also know the text formatting is a bit different than the other pages, which bugs me too, but I haven’t figured out a way to adjust it to make it identical to the formatting on the pages that still use the portfolio template. Eventually, I plan on doing this for Glassware as well, and to reintegrate Mugs + Teacups back into the Glassware page.
07.13.2021
I’ve added pages featuring three newly identified objects:
Adrian Pearsall’s Brutalist Dining Chairs (used in Enterprise)
Søren Yran’s Scio H03 330 Chair (used in Enterprise)
Weltron’s Model 2001 AM/FM Radio (Used in DS9)
And added a new screencap to the Jamaica Stool designed by Pepe Cortés for Knoll page to reflect it’s use in Enterprise.
I’m also trying to figure out ways of restructuring the way to navigate through Sourced Objects. I use Squarespace as my web host and have been using their Portfolio option for the Sourced Objects pages. I’ve, unfortunately, hit the cap on the amount of items I can list under the Stools + Dining Chairs. I could give stools their own category, but that’d only free up 7 items worth of space, and is only a temporary solution. Please bear with any annoying changes that take place over the next few days while I figure out how to handle this.
07.12.2021
I’ve decided to create a blog-style “news” page for Star Trek + Design so recurring viewers have a quick place to look for any new objects that have been identified or content that has been changed!
The biggest change, today, is the site header. Jonathan, from the typeface design firm, Hoefler & Co., reached out to me a while ago to share that their Tungsten font was used for the new LCARS interfaces in Star Trek Picard. He generously sent me the font files, and I used them to update the Star Trek + Design header. I was previously using Okuda.
I’ve also added pages featuring three newly identified objects:
Verner Panton’s Panton Chair (used in Enterprise)
Peter Ng’s Z-Bar Solo Lamp (used in Discovery)
D.V. Kap’s Morse Pillows (used in Short Treks)
And a new screencap to the Capisco Chair designed by Peter Opsvik for HÅG page to reflect it’s use in Enterprise.