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.

We can thank Syd Mead, the film’s “visual futurist ... future what Kubrick’s gleaming spaceships in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) did to tacky Flash Gordon–era spaceships.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 started drawing when he was just 3 years old. His imagination was sparked by his father reading to him "Flash Gordon" and "Buck Rogers." After a stint in the Army and then art school ...

before forming Syd Mead Inc. Philips Electronics was among his new firm’s biggest clients. “His drawings for Philips Electronics in the mid-’70s featured magnetic preprogrammed learning ...

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 ...