Lamble, Ryan (June 1, 2017). "Star Wars: The Surprising Origins of the AT-AT". Den of Geek . Retrieved December 31, 2019. 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. 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.

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TIMELINE” featuring new and old examples of Syd’s illustrations, 10 of which were on sale including newly introduced fine art Prints. Syd Mead continues an active schedule of one-man shows, which started with an invitation to exhibit at Documenta 6, Kassel, West Germany in 1973. His work has since been exhibited in Japan, Italy, California, and Spain. In 1983 in response to an invitation from Chrysler Corporation to be a guest speaker to their design staff, Syd Mead assembled a selection of slides to visually enhance his lecture. The resulting presentation was a resounding success and has since been expanded and enhanced with computer-generated imagery specifically assembled at the requests of such clients as Disney, Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue, Pratt University, the Society of Illustrators., and many others both academic and corporate around the world. In March of 2010, Syd completed a four-city tour in Australia to capacity audiences at each venue.But also this wasn't about the words (although I do think Mead deserved more in terms of descriptions and writing). This was about the incredible genre defining art of Syd Mead, art which has, unbeknownst to me, followed me throughout my childhood and furnished my imagination for a very long time. His art is timeless, gathering it into a single place made me realise it is a reminiscence of the past, and a prediction of the future. There will always be something in his work which is years old, that can connect you to it, and then something which defies our current technology and capability, making us wish to see a glimpse of what the future of the human race may hold. In 1979, projects began to include work with most major studios, on such feature films as Star Trek: The Motion Picture, followed by, Blade Runner, TRON, 2010, Short Circuit, Aliens, Time Cop, Johnny Mnemonic, Mission Impossible-3, and most recently Elysium starring Jodi Foster and Matt Damon, directed by Neill Blomkamp. Beginning in 1983, Syd began to develop close working relationships with a number of major Japanese corporate clients, including; Sony, Minolta, Dentsu, Dyflex, Tiger, Seibu, Mitsukoshi, Bandai, NHK, and Honda as well as contributing to two Japanese film projects, The New Yamato and Crises 2050. In the 1990s’, Syd supplied designs for two Japanese toy icons, “The New Yamato” and all eight robot characters in the new Turn-A Gundam mobile suit series which were also seen as characters in Television shows. In 1993, a digital gallery consisting of 50 examples of his art with interface screens designed by him became one of the first CD-ROMs released in Japan. In 2004, Mead co-operated with Gnomon School of Visual Effects to produce a four-volume "how-to" DVD series titled Techniques of Syd Mead. [7] Re-design of 2nd floor laser shooting game adventure arena, plus story invention for sequence of zones)

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Beginning in 1983, Mead developed working relationships with Sony, Minolta, Dentsu, Dyflex, Tiger Corporation, Seibu, Mitsukoshi, Bandai, NHK and Honda. [11] Moon, Mariella (December 30, 2019). "Syd Mead, concept artist behind 'Blade Runner' and 'Tron,' dies at 86". EnGadget . Retrieved December 31, 2019.Production of an aerial illustration featuring proposed ‘sport city’ completed with the assistance of Eric van der Palen Syd Mead - Visual Futurist and Concept Artist". Carnegie Council. September 2, 2017 . Retrieved December 31, 2019.