A showcase of Syd Mead's futuristic designs and illustrations including work for products, entertainment (movies, TV, interactive games, theme parks) Fantasy, Toys, Vehicles,architectual interriors and more.
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Great images, terrible text and editing.,
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This review is from: Syd Mead's Sentury (Paperback)
You can tell this book is self-published as there is an obvious lack of editorial oversight. Mead is a glorious industrial designer, but as a wordsmith he is woefully lacking. It is like listening to a teenager try to explain his art projects.
I believe that a book with a $50.00 price tag owes it to its readers to be copy-edited and proofread professionally. This was obviously not done by the Oblagon corporation as there are glaring errors on many pages. But most of all what is lacking is a narrative coherence to the work. It is very disorganized, as are the thoughts, and does not weave in any sense of narrative. It is little more than a catalogue of images....but what amazing images they are. My advice is to look into some of his other books first.
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Great concepts from the father of modern scifi,
By Tom Pittlik (Sydney, N.S.W Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Syd Mead's Sentury (Paperback)
This is a great book showcasing just a snippet of Syd Mead's life works - concept art and sketches cover a range of areas like town planning, architecture, industrial design and movie and game artifacts. A fair balance of industry applicable industrial design and science fiction design in a big 175 page large format book with at least one sketch or artwork on every page, with always an interesting and insightful caption by Mead. Be warned: this book doesn't showcase any of Mead's more notable works like Aliens and Bladerunner - most of the movies covered were either not released or not blockbusters (e.g Johnny Mnemonic, Mission to Mars), but nonetheless they all present unique and intriguing concepts. If you're a designer and futurist, this is a must have.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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More Great Syd Mead Work - Not as Good as Oblagon,
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Syd Mead carried the torch of defining American Industrial / Engineering Design passed down to him from such greats as Raymond Loewy and Norman Bel Geddes, and his style is now a standard approach in many designers tool kits. Sentury is a collection of many of his relatively recent works; they are all of high quality and most are visually interesting, as can be expected. While he sets a high standard in all of his works, the specific examples in Sentury were not quite as impressive as those in Oblagon, and if you had to buy only one Syd Mead book I would recommend that one first. But this is not to disparage Sentury, which can provide hours of visual stimulation and fantasizing about how possible futures could look. Some of the most interesting pieces from this book include his VIP aircraft interiors, yacht designs, and a fantasy of urban planning for Kobe Harbor in Japan. The bulk of the work is sci-fi entertainment oriented, most of it for projects that never came to fruition. Also included are some museum and exhibition pieces and some of his own drawings for non-contract work.
An interesting and beautiful addition for any designer's library.
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