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After a stint in the Army and then art school, Mead worked in industrial ... and there's always a Syd Mead book on the bookshelf. CORNISH: Ryan Church is a concept design supervisor at Lucasfilm.

So producers and Mead agreed on “visual futurist.” The title suited him, says architect Craig Hodgetts, who published a book called “The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist.” Mead was “absolutely ...

Syd Mead, Running of the 200th Kentucky Derby, 1975 Courtesy Syd Mead Incorporated In Mead’s art, the architecture of the future is glossy and smooth, brought to life by his medium of choice ...

Professor Michael Stoll has posted an amazing collection of promotional art Syd Mead ... me a 1961 U.S. Steel book titled Innovations, which contains similar work by Syd Mead.

He served three years in the Army, stationed in Okinawa, then in 1959 graduated from the Art Center ... Press Mr. Mead’s books included “Oblagon: Concepts of Syd Mead” (1996) and “Syd ...

I thought Syd Mead was dystopian,” many attendees ... The son of a Baptist minister (and part time art teacher), Mead gathered the strands of a childhood crowded by poverty and increasing ...

When Ridley Scott recruited Syd Mead for his 1982 film ... spurred by his reading of comic books and pulp magazines. After graduating from Los Angeles’s Art Center School in 1959, he embarked ...

Imagine a future where we aren’t beholden to smartphones or touchscreens. How would we socialize? How would we get around? What would we wear? “‘Pastime’ is very literal: capturing moments ...

Legendary visual futurist Syd Mead ... in 1933, Mead was a visionary artist who redefined how we imagine the future. After serving in the U.S. Army, he studied at the Art Center School in ...