Well, that's finally a piece of news on some main member of the crew aside from who's writing/producing/directing.
It's worth noting that Nilo Rodis did the costumes for RotJ several years before doing the costumes for Star Trek 5. I remember seeing those movies when I was growing up and noticing how similar Luke and Kirk's shirts looked in those movies and thinking it was just coincidence or "my imagination."
The biggest question to me remains who will shoot it and how it will be shot.
Abrams has used Dan Mindel on three of his four movies. I'm guessing he would've used him on Super 8 if Dan hadn't been busy shooting John Carter. That one was shot by Zack Snyder's longtime DP Larry Fong (who, it's worth noting, did not shoot Man of Steel).
Abrams has shot all four of his movies - at least primarily - in true cinemascope, just as the OT and TPM were shot. Into Darkness was partially shot in IMAX (the 3D is a post-conversion job, although the cg effects were rendered natively in stereo). I'm sure Abrams will at the very least push for the movie to be shot in true cinemascope. This is of course assuming film stock will still be available to use by the time this starts rolling next year. Not that shooting in digital would be a problem. Certain shots in STID were captured with Red Epic and Arri Alexa cameras. Digital movie camera sensors are finally getting to the point of being able to mimic how 4-perf vertical pulldown 35mm behaves. For example, Arri finally made an Alexa with a full-height sensor for shooting with anamorphic lenses.