Facebook celebrates Star Trek’s 50th anniversary

…with a lovely cardboard Enterprise model and some custom ‘reaction’ emoticons.
(I’m not sure about the logic behind using the Vulcan salute for ‘love’ or Spock for ‘wow’.)

Lindsey Shepard: Our internal design team built the USS Enterprise image by cutting and piecing together paper by hand. Then they photographed it using a high quality camera so that it could appear in our greeting.

(via The Verge)

See also

• USS Enterprise goes back on display at the Smithsonian after a faithful restoration — The studio model of the Star Trek starship Enterprise is now on exhibit in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall.
• Faceboook design — In his time working for Facebook (2008–2014), Ben Barry did a lot of really nice design work for the company. Luckily for us, he has posted it on his website.
• Gorgeous wooden USS Enterprise model — This 36 inch wooden model of the old school Starship Enterprise is made of maple, black walnut, padauk, osage orange, ebony, and yellow heart.