Early Star Trek novel design
Posted on November 17th, 2009 by steve
Author James Blish turned the original episodes of Star Trek into short stories, which have been printed and reprinted by Bantam Books.
The original cover paintings (above) were top notch. Lou Feck’s incredible brush strokes and fanciful landscapes took Star Trek beyond the confines of a television SFX budget (he did #s 4, 7 and 8). Eddie Jones made a blasted Klingon engine look really cool on #10 (Jones did the later numbers in the series, under the pen name S. Fantoni).
And the type: Helvetica Condensed and some ultra bold numbers (you know, like one of my fonts).
Cool design for explorers on the edge of space. Here’s Modern Fred’s Flickr/photoset of the bunch. And while you’re out exploring, check out Fred’s other space age modern snaps.
omg. I want these. :]