2001: food tray

[Lt Washburn]

It looks really great, amazing job!

 

[Markus]

... So here's my finished prop.

This looks fantastic. Great work that you and SquidMan did!
SquidMan: I am especially impressed by the job you did on the graphics for the boxes. Would you mind describing with more technical details how you did this (tools, & methods)? Also, would you mind sharing the hi-res images?

 

[joberg]

Thanks guys! Another tweak this week-end (color matching) and it's completely done

 

[Lt Washburn]

Thanks guys! Another tweak this week-end (color matching) and it's completely done

Then you can work on the food tray from the Discovery

 

[Funky]

What a great and unique prop!

 

[joberg]

Ahead of you Lt Washburn

 

[Markus]

Ahead of you Lt Washburn

Wow! Looks fantastic! This is the one that I want first (... and then the other one). Once I have this, I have a reason to buy the expensive Arne Jacobsen silverware.

 

[Lt Washburn]

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Woah! Was there a thread on that one I missed? Very cool!

 

[joberg]

Lt Washburn: the thread was: 2001 A food tray odyssey

 

[yelahttam]

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This looks so great!! Any chance you're making them for sale? - mh

 

[joberg]

Yelahttam: I might do the Aries-1B tray, only if members are willing to wait 3 weeks for it and at a low production number. Also, since Squidman did the logos, it would be only fair to discuss with him what kind of "cut" he would take on the final price of such a prop...stay tuned.
The "Discovery" tray is a one-off for the moment: to find the right cup is very hard, as well as the 4 food compartments.

 

[joberg]

There they are: Squidman's tray and mine together one last time:

 

[Lt Washburn]

So, fish through a straw doesn't sound that great.

 

[Krieger]

Yeah, doubt I would order the fish. What are the other packs - a block of cheese, and what looks like French fries?

 

[joberg]

From left to right, upper row: French fries, orange and strawberry, cheese, coffee.
From left to right, lower row: Fish, corn, peas, carrots...enjoy

 

[Krieger]

That is nice, thanks joberg! As many times as I have seen this movie, as well as when they brought it back in theaters, I never thought of the reality of Pan Am food in the 21st century - until now great work

 

[Krieger]

Just watched that scene again in 2001, thats a great prop replica!

I still don't understand why Dr Floyd slept through the meal, Cheese fries and coffee would be great right about now

 

[Lt Washburn]

From left to right, upper row: French fries, orange and strawberry, cheese, coffee.
From left to right, lower row: Fish, corn, peas, carrots...enjoy

Fish and chips, mushy peas...if it had tea instead of coffee, it'd be a very English meal.

 

[joberg]

Yep, I think there's a combination of meals for every palate I always wonder what kind of meal they had on the Discovery.
Left to right on the tray: meat, potatoes, vegetable and desert last...maybe "Crème Brûlée"

 

[SquidMan]

Hey everyone! I was away from the forum for a bit after finishing the illustrations/logo/instructions for the tray, but had to share how great the finished replica turned out, courtesy of joberg:

Here's a size comparison to another 2001: A Space Odyssey replica prop of mine; a light-up Zero Gravity Toilet instructions sign I made:

This looks fantastic. Great work that you and SquidMan did!
SquidMan: I am especially impressed by the job you did on the graphics for the boxes. Would you mind describing with more technical details how you did this (tools, & methods)? Also, would you mind sharing the hi-res images?

Thanks Markus! I used a combination of 4K screenshots, Blu-ray screenshots, and production photographs of the props as reference, and I recreated each of the illustrations as closely as possible to the originals by essentially redrawing them on Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Sorry, I won't be making the high-res versions available since joberg and I will be selling these trays. Please PM him if you're interested in purchasing one.

Here's a little curiosity I came across: Someone tweeted images from the recent Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the Design Museum in London of the concept sketches for this food tray prop, and a photo of a tray that wasn't seen on screen but must've been used in production. As you can see, most of the Liquipaks are the same as the ones in the tray we've replicated, but with the addition of what looks like ham and fried egg (?). Just an interesting alternate version of the more iconic prop.

Click here to see the full tweet.