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.

Syd Mead He finished the design in a hotel bar, along the street from the Phillips studios in Eindhoven. “I was having a Brandy Manhattan, drawing this spaceship on a napkin,” Mead says.

Legendary visual futurist Syd Mead’s paintings will be showcased in a major exhibition, “Future Pastime,” running from March 28 to May 21 at the former Mitchell-Innes & Nash gallery space in ...

was an interpretation of someone else’s vision, not Mr. Mead’s own ... cool streamlining in interstellar space). That’s because, ironically, Syd was old-school, one of the last great ...

With Blade Runner, Syd Mead transformed cold technical drawings into snapshots of urban ... alien-infested spaceship, even ringworlds - his work has also influenced a whole generation of game ...

The Forest Lawn Museum retrospective exhibition of Syd Mead’s half-century ... telescoping space station. Many movie fans know Mead best as the creator of futurist concept designs incorporated ...

When Ridley Scott recruited Syd ... Mead’s future, Corman noted, was “a place of possibility.” As a child in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he was born in 1933, Mead displayed a knack for ...

Syd Mead, the legendary conceptual artist and sci ... in Blade Runner and the future Las Vegas in Blade Runner 2049. The spaceship Leonov and its interiors from the movie 2010, and robot Johnny ...

“His outlook on the future is so positive. I thought Syd Mead was dystopian,” many attendees exclaim, as if on cue. Space Wheel Interior (1979) This perception is heavily guided by the work ...

Syd Mead, the visionary artist who helped shape the look of "Blade Runner" and "Blade Runner 2049," has died at 86. Syd Mead, the visionary artist who helped shape the look of "Blade Runner" and ...