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Thursday 23 November 2017

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Famous industrial artist and designer Syd Mead gets a photo-packed coffee table tome in Titan Books

The title Syd Mead has weight in the world of excellent theater. Mead is one of the most accomplished and respected artists and industrial artists today that is residing. His career boasts an amazing variety of projects to creating architectural renderings from designing automobiles, however he’s most famous for his work as a concept artist on a few 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 ever aimed to leave “reality ahead of schedule,” creating evocative designs that wed believable content using a neofuturistic kind. It’s this capability to forecast potential that has helped Mead produce such a distinctive and influential cosmetic. Out of his work with Ridley Scott on , to his stunning designs for the mild cycles from Tron, to his imposing idea artwork for the U.S.S. Sulaco in James Cameron’s , Syd Mead has played a pivotal role in shifting cinema’s vision of their future.

This September, Titan Books will release The Film Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist . The tome represents the group of Mead work ever printed, compiling hundreds of concept artwork and pictures, sketches from a career spanning nearly 40 years, many of which have not been seen in print before. Each entry provides a unique insight to the processes as well as illuminating the work involved in creating a cinematic depiction of their near future. This is essential reading for futurologists, artists and film fans alike, with a myriad of pictures from the numerous genre-defining films Mead has worked on.

The Film Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist releases on September 5th 2017 and retails for $49.95 US. It’s a hardback book at 324 x 246 mm with colour illustrations throughout and is 256 pages. Go to the official Titan Books site to learn more.