Image A Syd Mead design from the 1982 movie “Tron.” His credit for that movie was “conceptual artist.”Credit...Syd Mead “All ideas go through three stages,” he told The Boston Globe in ...

If you've watched any science fiction in the past few decades or seen a concept car, or, hell, even had a daydream about what the future may be like, then you owe a lot to a man named Syd Mead.

Plus, the ragged edges of possibility and design are what attracted so many of his future clients, as the then Detroit-living designer decided to start his own firm known as Syd Mead Incorporated ...

But he was not a member of any design guilds and needed an after credit. So producers and Mead agreed on “visual futurist.” The title suited him, says architect Craig Hodgetts, who published a book ...

Syd’s spouse, Roger Servick, told the New York Times that the design of Blade Runner was an interpretation of someone else’s vision, not Mr. Mead’s own. “He always tried to make sure that ...

Syd Mead, the visual futurist ... period of service in the U.S. Army, Mead attended the Art Center School in Los Angeles, now the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, graduating in 1959.

RYAN CHURCH: I worked in a lot of studios, the most influential blockbuster directors, and there's always a Syd Mead book on the bookshelf. CORNISH: Ryan Church is a concept design supervisor at ...

Syd Mead, the Hollywood "visual futurist" who helped design some of those film worlds, has made a career of it. (He coined the term, in fact. "It's a bumper-sticker title I invented" so he could ...

Syd Mead brought neo-futurism to the ... I did less in terms of design than I did for the 1982 movie.” Mead loves the new spinner in Blade Runner 2049, “with the sloping back.” ...