Syd Mead passed away on Monday 30th December 2019, and his loss has been felt deeply around the world. His body of work was ahead of its time both in content and vision, and we want to celebrate the life of Syd Mead, Visual Futurist. His one-man show, “Cavalcade to the Crimson Castle” consisting of 114 original paintings and illustrations, enjoyed a three month showing at the Center for the Arts in San Francisco in the Fall of 1996. The highlight of the show turned out to be Syd’s presentation and lecture attracted an audience that exceeded the available capacity of the auditorium. Subsequent personal appearances at schools across the country have attracted record numbers. “SYD MEAD PROGRESSIONS” a traveling one-man-show of his work, is now in the planning stage to mark the 40th anniversary of his work. This touring exhibition is currently scheduled to premiere in Glendale, California at the Forest Lawn Gallery of Fine Arts in January 2012. Mead worked with major studios on the feature films: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, Tron, 2010, Short Circuit, Aliens, The Spirit of '76, Timecop, Johnny Mnemonic, Mission: Impossible III, Elysium, Tomorrowland and Blade Runner 2049. [3] [14] George Lucas created the AT-AT for his Star Wars saga based on art by Mead. [15] Mead also contributed to the Japanese film Solar Crisis. In the 1990s, Mead supplied designs for two Japanese anime series, Turn A Gundam and the unfinished Yamato 2520. [14] a b Burton, Bonnie (December 30, 2019). "Syd Mead, sci-fi visual artist known for Blade Runner and Tron, dies at 86". CNet . Retrieved December 31, 2019. ADDICT Ltd. London, A trend setting magazine and fashion provider released a line of T-shirts featuring artwork by Syd Mead 2004

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Now the style of Syd Mead is incredibly distinctive and yet when you look through the book you realise how many of his designs shaped the "feel" of the film and to be honest I am not sure how many of them really did credit him for that. After all you can see the character of Johny 5 in Short Circuit really coming out in his work. By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU. a b Fowler, Matt (December 30, 2019). "Syd Mead, Artist Behind Blade Runner, Dies". IGN . Retrieved December 31, 2019. Yet Syd’s future has no blade of wild grass, not even pigeons. In this techno-future, nature is not so much tamed as ignored. Perhaps tellingly, this is why even his optimistic techno-marvels often seem hard, even cold. In Syd’s future, humans seem happy to be alone with their machines. In Tron (1982) , for instance, nature is dispensed with entirely for a world of pure industrial design. Moon, Mariella (December 30, 2019). "Syd Mead, concept artist behind 'Blade Runner' and 'Tron,' dies at 86". EnGadget . Retrieved December 31, 2019.

SYD MEAD 2019: A Future Imagined

Syd Mead is one of the most accomplished and widely respected artists and industrial designers alive today. His career boasts an incredible array of projects from designing cars to drafting architectural renderings, but he is most famous for his work as a concept artist on some of the most visually arresting films in the history of cinema. Since working on Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1978 as a production illustrator Syd Mead has always aimed to render ?reality ahead of schedule,? creating evocative designs that marry believable content with a neofuturistic form. It is this ability to predict technological potential that has helped Mead create such a distinctive and influential aesthetic. From his work with Ridley Scott on Blade Runner, to his striking designs for the light cycles in Tron, to his imposing concept art for the U.S.S. Sulaco in James Cameron?s Aliens, Syd Mead has played a pivotal role in shaping cinema?s vision of the future. The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual . They were doing the credits for Blade Runner and they rang and asked what I’d like to call myself,” Mead says. “I’d been doing visual stuff for 20 years and it was mostly future, so I came up with Visual Futurist.”

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Although he’s made his name in the movies, Mead maintains that a good designer can work on anything. “Cassettes, TVs and starships – one technology is just way ahead of the other,” he says. Reuniting the crew of the Enterprise, 10 years after the TV series had been cancelled, Star Trek the Motion Picture was due for release in 1979. The movie featured a giant starship, V’ger, which threatened the Earth. “It was a retread of a TV segment that had been done before,” says Mead, “[so] it wasn’t totally original.” The other thing that jabbed me a little during this book was the words by Craig Hodgetts. I understand, after doing a bit of research, he is a successful California architect and therefore that would give him a good amount of scope to really analyse the artistic language behind the art. Brilliant! A lot of it gave a new angle I could view a lot of science fiction art with. HOWEVER, across the book he seemed to look down upon science fiction language with a little bit of distain. I got the impression that multiple long words, constructed in a typical winding description about motive and comparison to more spiritual and ethereal drives behind the work would be suitable instead of the word "cyberpunk" or "noir" or a whole host of other little helpful devices, and so ultimately I felt him trying to distance himself from the people that used that language. By convolutedly attempted to avoid the genre defining/ sub-genre nametags, he one one hand allowed a fresh take on the work without the reader coming in with previous expectation (I grant this was interesting), but on the other hand Hodgetts seemed to distance himself from the community of popular science fiction, and filmmaking in general. There were obvious nods to other brilliant science fiction works in some of Mead's concepts and yet were not mentioned or given a confused description. I don't know Hodgetts, I don't know his preferences, and it full well might be me missing something from the aim of his when he was writing this, but it seemed that he missed some key points to really bring the reader in. Please join us at our new Syd Mead online store. We have all the items from before and added items… Read More »With transportation design as his first love, Syd Mead seldom misses an opportunity to provide his unique blend of futurism and believability to those projects consisting of a vehicle that travels from “A” to ‘B”. Whether it be designing solar powered unicycles, show cars, luxury yachts, cruise ships, the interiors of private 747’s, or interplanetary spacecraft, each receives the same attention to detail within a perfectly designed scenario. This combination has become a Syd Mead trademark and has been seen in everything from concept cars for Ford Motor Company to futuristic “Hypervans” which have been the subject of his latest full-color illustrations. As a personal note, no designer or artist has affected me as deeply as Syd Mead: he was – and will be – a constant point of reference, and since his passing a few days ago I’m coming to realize more and more how much of my personal aesthetic culture has been affected by him in one form of another. Torino Italy staged a celebration of possibilities for he future development of the villages that will come After our current plans have come to pass and invited Syd Mead’s vision is exemplary, offering an artistic and highly believable approach to architectural and industrial design that few could ever hope to match. His technological reality is one you’d desperately want to spend extended time in, so that you can investigate, touch and conceptually grasp all of the small details together with the much bigger picture – experiencing the intrigue and excitement of something familiar reshaped with an expert’s eye.

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ARTS (Proposed for November: Invited event presenter in connection with Arts and Architecture series) Week long series of critiques, presentations, lectures and an original piece of art, now in the PCC permanent collection. Syd Mead - Visual Futurist and Concept Artist". Carnegie Council. September 2, 2017 . Retrieved December 31, 2019. ART CENTER COLLEGE – PASADENA, CA of DESIGN: Presentation to students as guet of illustration chairMead creatively fuses streamlined shapes, light, shadow, volumes and futuristic iconography with myriad accessories; a personal style that defines form and function, illustrating user interfaces and personal- or task-based spaces that show mechanical understanding working in conjunction with human considerations. Syd was invited to be not only the guest speaker and presenter but also contributed the vehicle design and consultation for the showcase corporate video. Syd Mead wasn’t planning on becoming a visual futurist. The job description didn’t even exist until he invented it. Design for gaming level and (Shibuya area) laser shooting arena attraction. Six story attraction opens as Dr. Jeekhan’s.

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Syd Mead Visual Futurist and Industrial Designer has passed at his home in Pasadena at the age of 86. He… Read More » Syd is commissioned to create the design of the LIGHT CYCLE for the TRON2.O electronic game as sequel to the LIGHT CYCLE he designed for the feature release TRON 2001