Syd Mead, Blade Runner, and the Blueprint Mindset: LRNZ’s Creative Influences

Syd Mead, Blade Runner, and the Blueprint Mindset: LRNZ’s Creative Influences

Conheci esse artista depois de pesquisar informações sobre o filme Blade Runner, acho que ele aparece o documentário Dias Perigosos também, salvo engano.
Neste vídeo do Youtube, há uma ilustração dele de uma moto igual à do Kaneda, de Akira. É de 2004 e foi inspirada no Anime / Mangá. Por sua vez, Katsuhiro Otomo disse que a moto de Kaneda foi inspirada na de Tron, que teve seu conceito criado por Mead.
Acho foda esses ilustradores com background de desenho industrial e afins, como Juan Giménez. Os veículos, mesmo com designs bem destoantes do que vemos no mundo real, são críveis pelo seu design funcional. A cereja do bolo do Mead são essas pinturas com aerógrafo. Camarada meu que é ilustrador mostrou uma vez um artbook e me explicou que esta técnica era o "Photoshop" das antigas.

« Space Wreck », c. 1977
by Syd Mead (American designer and painter, 1933-2019)
Gouache on paper, features in "The Flights of Icarus", by Donald Lehmkuhl, Martyn & Roger Dean, Limpsfield, Dragon's World / Paper Tiger, 1977
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« Sentinel 280 Concept », c. 1970
by Syd Mead (American designer and painter, 1933-2019)
Concept car design for U.S. Steel, 1968
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I have to say, Syd Mead's artwork still feels like the future and a parallel world I would love to live in.
"Grimes, Ridley Scott, and Others Tell Us
How Designer Syd Mead Invented the Future" - Interview Magazine
When artists imagine the future these days, it looks bleak and dark — and actually, fair enough. But for Boomers, it was colorful, shiny, and sometimes sexy — and that's at least partly down to the late Syd Mead, the concept artist who worked on "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," "Tron" and "Blade Runner," and also depicted futuristic vehicles and alien vistas, imbued with optimism rather than evil. Six years after his death, Mead has his first retrospective, Future Pastime. Read more about it in the Art Newspaper's story here, and see it in New York until May 21. Story may be paywalled.
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