Industrial Designer 1 Articles Visual Futurist Syd Mead Will Keynote At Hackaday Superconference September 6, 2017 by Mike Szczys 9 Comments ...

Syd Mead, a visual effects artist and American industrial designer who helped imagine the futuristic look of science fiction classics like “Blade Runner” and “Aliens,” has died. He was 86.

Syd Mead, likely more than any other artist or designer, helped us visualize what the future could look like, whether it was a gleaming, post-scarcity utopia or a bleak, brooding dystopia.

Syd Mead, the “visual futurist” and concept artist known for his design contributions to sci-fi films such as Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Aliens and Blade Runner, will receive the Art ...

What does the future actually look like? Chances are what you see in your mind when presented with that question is heavily influence by Syd Mead. He is an industrial designer, but his body of ...

CORNISH: Mead was the artist and designer who helped build the world in sci-fi classics like "Blade Runner," "Aliens" and "Tron." Syd Mead started drawing when he was just 3 years old. His ...

A designer working for the Swedish truck company found a bunch of old Syd Mead sketches and decided to share them with the world. Kyle Hyatt (he/him/his) hails originally from the Pacific ...

The designer Syd Mead, who worked on movies like “Blade Runner” and “Alien,” in his studio in 1986. A good Mead design looked amazing, but it also looked plausible.

Syd Mead — the artist and designer who helped build the worlds of films like Blade Runner, Alien, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture — died Monday, Variety reports. He was 86.

Syd Mead, the “visual futurist” and concept artist known for his design contributions to sci-fi films such as Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Aliens and Blade Runner, will receive the Art ...