D espite the bleak tone of Blade Runner, the 1982 film most closely tied to his name, designer Syd Mead's vision of the ...

The late artist’s first retrospective, at a pop-up space in Manhattan, offers an idealised, futuristic take on the 21st ...

Syd Mead offers a kaleidoscopic vision of future worlds in Future Pastime, an exhibition on view in New York City. Celebrated ...

Curated by Elon Solo and William Corman, Future Pastime focuses on Syd Mead’s lifestyle ... thin imitations of AI. Mead was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1933. After a spell in the army, he went to ...

That's part of why Mead, who died in 2019 at 86 years old ... "During the two and half years Syd worked at Ford Motor Company’s advanced car design studio, he became keenly aware of how every auto ...