The 1982 cult movie Blade Runner had an unforgettable look: a dark, dirty Los Angeles with brooding streetscapes filled with a jangle of architectural styles and ominous vehicles flying overhead. That highly influential vision of a cityscape was in part created by designer Syd Mead, who called himself a “visual futurist.” Mead died on December 30, 2019 at 86 years old.
Mead started out as a concept artist in the auto industry and went on to work on numerous movies, dreaming up gizmos like the light cycles in Tron, the robot “Johnny 5” in Short Circuit and the flying Spinner police cars in the original Blade Runner.
On his passing, designers, directors and inventors paid tribute. READ MORE
The 1982 cult movie Blade Runner had an unforgettable look: a dark, dirty Los Angeles with brooding streetscapes filled with a jangle of architectural styles and ominous vehicles flying overhead. That highly influential vision of a cityscape was in part created by designer Syd Mead, who called himself a “visual futurist.” Mead died on December 30, 2019 at 86 years old.
Mead started out as a concept artist in the auto industry and went on to work on numerous movies, dreaming up gizmos like the light cycles in Tron, the robot “Johnny 5” in Short Circuit and the flying Spinner police cars in the original Blade Runner.
On his passing, designers, directors and inventors paid tribute. READ MORE
The 1982 cult movie Blade Runner had an unforgettable look: a dark, dirty Los Angeles with brooding streetscapes filled with a jangle of architectural styles and ominous vehicles flying overhead. That highly influential vision of a cityscape was in part created by designer Syd Mead, who called himself a “visual futurist.” Mead died on December 30, 2019 at 86 years old.
Mead started out as a concept artist in the auto industry and went on to work on numerous movies, dreaming up gizmos like the light cycles in Tron, the robot “Johnny 5” in Short Circuit and the flying Spinner police cars in the original Blade Runner.
On his passing, designers, directors and inventors paid tribute. READ MORE
The 1982 cult movie Blade Runner had an unforgettable look: a dark, dirty Los Angeles with brooding streetscapes filled with a jangle of architectural styles and ominous vehicles flying overhead. That highly influential vision of a cityscape was in part created by designer Syd Mead, who called himself a “visual futurist.” Mead died on December 30, 2019 at 86 years old.
Mead started out as a concept artist in the auto industry and went on to work on numerous movies, dreaming up gizmos like the light cycles in Tron, the robot “Johnny 5” in Short Circuit and the flying Spinner police cars in the original Blade Runner.
On his passing, designers, directors and inventors paid tribute. READ MORE
