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- Sydney Jay Mead (July 18, 1933 - December 30, 2019) was an American industrial designer and neo-futurist concept artist, widely known for his designs for science-fiction films such as Blade Runner, Aliens and Tron. Mead has been described as "the artist who illustrates the future" and "one of the most influential concept artists and industrial designers of our time."
Mead was born on July 18, 1933, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His father was a Baptist minister, who read him pulp magazines, such as Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, sparking his interest in science fiction. Mead was skilled in drawing at a young age. According to Mead, "by the time I was in high school I could draw the human figure, I could draw animals, and I had a sense of shading to show shape. I was really quite accomplished at that point with brush technique and so-forth." He described himself as being an "insular child." Mead graduated from high school in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1951. After serving a three-year enlistment in the U.S. Army, Mead attended the Art Center School in Los Angeles (now the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena), where he graduated in June 1959.
In 1959, Mead was recruited to Ford Motor Company's Advanced Styling Studio by Elwood Engel. From 1960 to 1961, Mead worked in Ford Motor Company Styling in Detroit, Michigan. Mead left Ford after two years to illustrate books and catalogues for companies including United States Steel, Celanese, Allis-Chalmers and Atlas Cement. In 1970, he launched Syd Mead, Inc. in Detroit with clients including Philips Electronics.
With his own company in the 1970s, Mead spent about a third of his time in Europe, primarily to provide designs and illustrations for Philips, and he continued to work for international clients. Through the 1970s and 1980s, Mead and his company provided architectural renderings, both interior and exterior, for clients including Intercontinental Hotels, 3D International, Harwood Taylor & Associates, Don Ghia, Gresham & Smith and Philip Koether Architects.
Beginning in 1983, Mead developed working relationships with Sony, Minolta, Dentsu, Dyflex, Tiger Corporation, Seibu, Mitsukoshi, Bandai, NHK and Honda.
Mead's one-man shows began in 1973 with an exhibit at documenta 6 in Kassel, West Germany. His work was later exhibited in Japan, Italy, California and Spain. In 1983, Mead was invited by Chrysler Corporation to be a guest speaker to its design staff. He created a series of slides to provide visuals to the lecture, and the resulting presentation was a success. It was later expanded and enhanced with computer-generated images specifically created at the requests of several clients, including Disney, Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue University, Pratt Institute and the Society of Illustrators. In March 2010, Mead completed a four-city tour of Australia.
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.
In 2018, Mead published his autobiography, titled A Future Remembered. Regarding his work, Mead said, "the idea supersedes technique," and that "I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule.'"
Mead worked with major studios on the feature films: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, Tron, 2010, Short Circuit, Aliens, The Spirit of '76, Timecop, Johnny Mnemonic, Mission: Impossible III, Elysium, Tomorrowland and Blade Runner 2049. George Lucas created the AT-AT for his Star Wars saga based on art by Mead. Mead also contributed to the Japanese film Solar Crisis. In the 1990s, Mead supplied designs for two Japanese anime series, Turn A Gundam and the unfinished Yamato 2520.
In May 2007, he completed work on a documentary of his career with the director Joaquin Montalvan entitled Visual Futurist:The Art & Life of Syd Mead. The short 2008 documentary film 2019: A Future Imagined, also explored his works. Mead also appears in movie documentaries such as Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner and Mark Kermode's On the Edge of Blade Runner, and promotional materials such as the DVD extra for Aliens and a promotional short film about the making of 2010.
Mead was in a personal relationship with partner Roger Servick; the couple married in 2016. They established a publishing extension, OBLAGON, Inc., in Hollywood and relocated in 1998 to Pasadena, California, where Mead continued to work.
On December 30, 2019, Mead died in his Pasadena home at age 86, after three years of lymphoma. Shortly after his death, tributes to Mead's life were posted on Twitter.
[from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Mead#]
“ There are more people in the world who make things than there are people who think of things to make. ”
- Syd Mead
Music: Steve Roach "The Passing Time"
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Hi all!
The last artwork from this video is not by Syd Mead. It's made by Anthony Scime, and it's titled "TS 2850". Sorry for the confusion. Hope you'll enjoy the video!
Syd Mead isn't dead, he just teleported back to his own time
Back to the Future...?
Force with he , Forever
Inmortal
A time of a futuristic past. Maybe an alternate universe where the times collide.
Makes me feel nostalgic for the future.
"Preemptive nostalgia of the possible but doubtful."
shit right
perfect
The Lost future
@@TallicaMan1986 Boy howdy, this makes me feel like a Camel cigarette.
"The future ain't what it used to be"
- Yogi Berra
hahaa that is so amazing
Sometimes I wish I could just have the ability to pop into pictures, and just be a part of it and experience it more. Living can be brutal when art can paint a better life.
Sanity Logic Art does nothing that the imagination does not do itself. Art acts only as a springboard that ignites the imagination to soar.
We are all time travellers, heading into the future. Be patient, you will arrive.
Psychedelics my friend.
In a sense, VR will be bringing some of that. 😎
@@BoltRM yo some kind of massive, open-world video game made in Syd Mead's vision would be so cool ... vehicles and cityscapes all.
THIS is the future I wanted...
Yeah, not fuckin Greta Thunfish.
That future is here.. only problem interpretations of the future seldom ever includes what remains of the past. Its like envisioning New York City with a futuristic skyline without any of the buildings prior. This is what we see of syd's art. A clean page interpretation of the future without traces of the old. But, he did do just that with with his concept work and eventual set design work for Blade Runner. Retrofittinig the past into the future, which is what we see today in reality. As for flying cars... here ya go.. on the house. ruclips.net/video/5ukmS9ZJm40/видео.html
Same here..
@@Marv_0815 And a political class that has Western students acquire 100,000 in debt to compete with slave labor in Asia. And Drag Queen Story Hour. And all time high suicide rates for the native class of Western Civ. And 800 dollars for a Tylenol pill at the hospital.
We ain’t gonna get it. We’ll be driving combustion engine out-dated jallopies for mother century so your masters can make their last billions and start wars. Those pictures show what we don’t have in our real world: United effort, progressive minded, egalitarian, willingness to work for something better that can be better for everyone; in short, a world we share. This is what sci fi dreamed of from the 60’s to the mid-late 80’s....then...it vaporized. Sci fi today is all about war. Unrealistic bug aliens want to steal our water and resources, space is bad/space is evil/everything in space wants to exterminate us - hmmm....just like what the human race has been doing worldwide since the 1400’s. Sadly, this is all a pipe dream now. There used to be actual science in science fiction.
Mead was a true genius! I had the pleasure of helping to hang one of his matte paintings that he made for the original Blade Runner, at an art show. It was an incredible piece of art painted by a true master!
Link?
That would've been absolutely awesome.
Still can't believe we lost both him and Rutger Hauer in 2019
Both Syd and Roy Batty saw things with their eyes that no-one else has seen.... like attack ships burning off the shoulder of Orion..... :(
This is one of those guys that everyone who makes anything futuristic is influenced by whether they know it or not
The music truly places you in the spirit, mood, and vision Mr. Mead had intended with his illustrations, just wonderful!!! The music brings the images to life, or to another realm that is being presented in his visions...
IN A PARALLELL REALITY ALL THESE THINGS EXISTS.
This was profoundly more touching than I thought it would be...strength be unto all weary fellow travelers
Greetings fellow wayfarer
Very peaceful.
Coming of age in the late 1960's, this was how the future was supposed to look like.
Hulagan 808 The hippies were too busy with free love and smoking pot to contribute to making this happen.
Joel Carson It’s still what it’s supposed to look like.
This was drawn in the early 80s. I would have thought the cars would've been a dead giveaway. Strangely enough my car looks VERY much like the concept cars of the late 90s. Look up FG falcon.... Australian car.
The future that we want is never a reality. But it's our human nature to not accept reality, so no matter what time gives us. We still look towards the future. The only thing impossible is impossibility. And the future still awaits.
Yeah the late 60s and 70s societal, financial and geopolitical self created mess destroyed the future
The kind of peace we lack this days of a bright future whitout war and despair that's power and beauty !! Bravo !!
In a world where electric power and nuclear energy where "too cheap to meter"
Syd Mead. A Genius. Your channel has the real taste of good taste.
such a thorough mastery of reflections...
I find myself coming back to Syd Mead's work over and over again. Each time Im always in awe of his vision. Syd Mead's influence will echo into the future forever.
twin
A true legend, one of the founders of sci-fi design. His work is out of this world and influences so many other designers and IP's, and that will echo on for ever. Thanks for your work mr Mead, rest in peace.
You can see his influence everywhere, he has changed this world in some small but significant way.
I love his art, and I am happy to get a video from your channel about him, with your beautiful taste of music selection. Steve Roach is a perfect selection for real.
Thank you so much! :)
Beautiful art and music. I love how almost every painting has a few people conversing in the background. It evokes the same weird feelings as the painting 'Nighthawks' , that eerie familiarity, like you've been there before, spoken with those people.
Just discovered this channel, one of the few times I can actually feel gratitude towards the RUclips algorithm!
In the future, Syd will be remembered among Michelangelo, Da Vinci and all the artists that left a mark to be remembered.
We can only hope to be graced by someone as talented and visionary as Syd again in our lifetime. But something tells me we'll never quite get there. Thanks for the hope and optimism, Syd.
Bless his creative ❤️
If you guys like jets, check out Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson. Futuristic jets, military aviation, tons of neat aircraft. It's my favorite book.
RIP the legend, I'm glad to see his work of art translated through media such as Blade Runner and Turn A Gundam. His works will still live on through the end of time.
He was responsible for the mustashiod mobile suit.
And Mass Effect in a way.
I like the dystopian rainy night street scenes. I could almost smell the soy from the cooking in the street vendor stands.
As a 60s & 70s kid Syd’s art blew my mind - especially the cars (which admittedly some look dated now) and the cool genetically engineered (or alien?) animals. Like everyone else is commenting, this is the future I expected and feel sad I didn’t get. But his art was intended to inspire, not predict, and it is still perfectly successful for that.
Syd Mead was such a wonderful influence, inspiration in my desire to become a designer. When I was about 12 years old(1980) I began to draw, especially cars. So, when I first saw some of Syd's work I was awe struck! The futuristic scenes, the way people were dressed, the cars, the creativity that left so much to my imagination... The work he did for Blade Runner! So beautiful! Now, almost 40 years later his vision of the future seems dated... Not completely but I wonder if he imagined cell phone use, touch screen devices..? The structures and cities are still very futuristic. The outfits, costumes, and clothes people are wearing very interesting... As for today, what is being designed and built in the way of cars today in reality are very much in the spirit and seemingly more advanced than the cars Mr. Mead thought of decades ago... Also, I especially love the representation of "glow" in the images in a dark section where a screen is projecting on someone...
DistantMirrors, you beautiful soul, thanks for uploading this. It is wonderful! I love Syd Mead and his vision of the future, a bright and hopeful world we could sure hope for in this day and age.
So happy that you liked it!
I got to do work for Syd just before His passing, in fact I spoke with Roger today. I love Syd, his work is fantastic He was a very personable guy and a true treasure.
Damn, I wish his future (our present day) actually looked like this.
I' m too wished this Future, no rage no poornes no infect no war, Just peace lovely heavenly happy , supercivilization very nice Future ,,,,, my Dream :""""")
somewhere in time...
meet you in a hyperreal future!
Such a fantastic artist !
I was always hoping the future would be like this ..........
I am deeply impressed. So much creativity, optimism and strange beauty. Thank you for sharing.
I have looked through countless videos of the works of Roger Dean, Simon Stalenhag, and my all time favorite Syd Mead. FINALLY! Someone gets the music right. Thank you!
Caught by the thumbnail, stayed for music and images. Never knew of Syd Mead but oh my goodness he was extremely skilled with coloration and reflections! Very cool concepts!
I didn’t realize the greatness of Syd Mead until I was visiting the set of Demolition Man at Warner Brothers - while he didn’t work on that one we snuck into the empty office of the production designer who had these big and amazing Syd Mead picture books we couldn’t stop looking through.
We let syd mead’s future down.
Not elon
We're not done yet, plenty of time to improve from here!
The Future we were promised...
We're The Dispossessed.
You fools you’re in the present not the future
@@eggheadusa9900 fuck you
It is not only the Future that has been stolen from us by corrupt and decadent postmodern Capitalism. Postmodern Capitalism has robbed us of the Aesthetics of good taste and the optimism of Modernity.
Nebris people like you hold us back
Syd Mead has always been one of my all time favorite futurist artists! His imagination and artwork has always amazed me!
Not even taking into account his astounding imagination and mechanical design aptitude, the fact that this was all rendered BY HAND and still outweighs the technical quality of most modern concept illustrators, without a single digital crutch involved.... Syd was a talent almost beyond comprehension.
A true Visionary , RIP Sir
When I saw Mr Meads art when I was a kid, many, many years ago, I was convinced that this was how the future would look when I got to be in my 50's....well...I am in my 50's and still waiting....
It is not only the Future that has been stolen from us by corrupt and decadent postmodern Capitalism. Postmodern Capitalism has robbed us of the Aesthetics of good taste and the optimism of Modernity.
"The future ain't what it used to be."
@@atomicpunk7109 and don't even begin us with communism. Am i right
Atomic Punk
At least it isn’t communism.
@@Emppu_T. Even the "free market" system has its decay process and its subsequent death. And that decline is known as Postmodernity.
I sincerely can't believe all these great artists are here on RUclips. Excellent! Syd Mead was phenomenal.
thanks so much for putting this together.
Syd Mead's participation as the designer of the futuristic city in Blade Runner gave the film a unique character an avant-garde vision of how our society can become in a short time ...
I loved seeing Syd's work many times as a child but honestly never knew his name until today.
Can we all agree that Syd's vision of the future was one where ADULTS took their age seriously and worked TOGETHER to build a healthier, cleaner, more enlightened society (generally). It was not a future where the ADULTS fight to be the most unhealthy (fast food dependence and ambivalence toward morbid obesity), exhibit ignorant overpolution and waste of resources in their general living area and the planet as a whole, and saturate their meager intellectual abilities debating "child-topics" like which Avenger is really the strongest or what the Kardashians are up to this week?
Let's face it folks, the "future" didn't turn out the way we wanted because we waited for someone to make it this way FOR us instead of creating our future for ourselves :(
His future is timeless, even to this day, his work still looks like 'reality ahead of schedule', that says it all. Thank you for making me discover such a great artist with excellent music to complement. Great video honoring to the artist. Hope many more will learn from his work and be able to transcend it to another level. To the stars and beyond !
I come back time and time again to watch/listen to this masterpiece of a mashup. Literal perfection.❤
Mass Effect owes his estate a big royalty too, judging by some of those scenes
yeah i recognized the calista club on the asteroid city and another realm where you land at an asari city with merchants and the like
@@Mankindatwar Yrs the more you look at this video the more commonality you see. The citadel could be almost a touch up job, along with the some vehicles. I remember getting the art book for the original game and reading how they developed the themes, feel sorta half cheated now I'm aware of this. Not to say the original trilogy wasn't a great experience throughout.
Yeah, they certainly do. Did they give him anything?
@@nde1083 I'm Commander Shepard, and he's getting nowt. - most likely
Bare in mind, This was before photoshop. This is painted by hand. At one point he wasn't an artist on Artstation.com. He was the Artstation!
Thanks for posting Artstation. I'd never heard of it. I'm blown away!
@@jeffa6780 Yeah Jeff Art Atations awesome man. I go on it whenever i need inspiration. some really talented people out there just like Syd was.
Bloody hell - there was Art before Photoshop? You don't say..
@@nikolaikrustev1159 Ha ha, Yes, but rarely of the that quality for the genre. It was pretty much him and Jim Burns.
I paint by hand AND on photoshop, whats the big deal?
I was mesmerized and greatly influenced by his art for decades.
Also, great soundscape. Very appropriate.
Thank you for this high quality channel !
Syd Mead, at his best and most optimistic, ilkustrated the future you WANTEDto see yourself in, a future of beautiful machines, gorgeous and pleasingly striking buildings, stylish clothing and a bright future where, even as a pedestrian on your way to work, you imagined that you would have the occasional moment in which you would glance up and be suddenly struck by how aesthetically pleasing your world is . . . . . . As a teenager in the 70's and early 80's, heavily into Sci Fi and imagining the great leaps we would make in the next 40 years because we had recently been on the Moon, Syd Mead was the future i yearned for and Foss was the future i wanted to live in and work in . . . . . . . . I live in a constant state of dissapointment with a profound feeling of betrayal.
Syd Mead could see things that had never been and might never be and used his talents to share them with us.
Over 30 years ago, Syd was my inspiration, the reason I ended up going to design school to eventually becoming a renderer. Sad news indeed.
Alex Huxley whats a renderer
@@eggheadusa9900 We used to use Magic Markers and Airbrushes to comp out ideas. Before computers we did all layouts and product renders by hand. Before any photoshoot or for product development we would draw it all out by hand to make sure it works and to get the client blessing. Syd was a master renderer. Look up marker rendering techniques. Hope this helps.
Ha! I also chose my major because of him. I thought I wasn't enough of an artist, and went for the ID *Engineering* end (Process & Materials...how you actually *make* the things we can imagine.) I met him at a Design Centre event with Luigi Colani.
I suppose we'll have to keep trying to make the future like that without him. At least he left us some directions.
Alex Huxley So you add light and color to sketches? I’m guessing cgi took away a lot of work huh?
Inspiring, beautiful, relaxing, both visually and in sound.
Rest in peace you genius. Sci-fi fans are grateful for your work.
Didn't know of his passing, he's always been an inspiration. Thank you for uploading, love his aesthetic and style, attention to detail.
A man with a massive VISION .... ahead of his time like no other.
I was in a trance for 12 minutes. Phenomenal
Reverie; to be pleasantly lost in one's thoughts, a Daydream.
His art it truly magnificent and makes me ache to try my own hand at 3D modeling thing that could have suitably matched in this world, and 3D print them for ours
@@UNSCPILOT i encourage you to do this, start today !
Thank You ! The futurist who gave us so many beautiful designs ! I have a couple of his books. he will be missed !
I had the first release of his works back in the day. It still astonishes me how many concepts he conceptualized that actually came to be. Gyro stabilized personal transport, aka. Segway.
Thank you so much for this. Perfect combination of audio/visual.
One of the most influential industrial designers and futurists of all time.
In light of his passing, you're tempted to say "What a loss". And then you see this, and the idea of "loss" diminishes. Not when he contributed SO much in life. R.I.P. Syd...
Through his art and his inspiration to others he will live on forever :)
Thanks for posting this he was something special
Met Syd at a scifi convention in Plano, Texas, north of Dallas, around 2000. Interesting man. Fascinating talent. I loved his car designs.
I had the honor of holding and analyzing a Syd Mead original at a company I worked for, as a creative it was a the thrill of seeing the brush strokes and other painting methods up close and in such vivid detail.
This is so very cool. I remember seeing his stuff in magazines back in the mid 80's. I've been a fan from the moment I first saw his works. I drew a lot as a kid and I always wanted to design cars like he did. Thanks.
Stunnig and beautiful at the same time!!!!!!! Syd Mead and Theodor Rotrekl= visionary!!!!
I had the pleasure of meeting Syd several times at San Diego ComiCon - he was a gentle man, and an enlightened conversationalist. Had no idea there was a YT channel dedicated to his art. Thank you!
Attending school for industrial design, I was in one of the last classes that were taught mixed media drawing. Everything was going to computer drawings, obviously. Sid Mead was an absolute god to us students. This brings back fond memories. Thanks for sharing!
Oh Man...I did not know he'd passed away..The World's lost a Great artistic Visionary. I was able to see most of his talk at the Atlanta ,GA. High Museum in 2014. I stood in line to get my copy of his Sentury II book signed-and was able to get a Picture w him. I also have a copy of his 1980s book ' Concepts of Syd Mead OBL'-mostly in Japanese, done for a studio in Jp. RIP Mr. Mead-your works inspire People to think of a much Bigger and Better Future for Humanity.
Rest in peace dear Syd😢
I grew up on your fantastic artwork and it has inspired me all my life.
You will be dearly missed💔
Absolutely breathtaking stuff. His designs are so strange, yet so realistic. And the use of colour...oh my, that colour palette is absolute perfection. Everything looks so alive, and palpable.
Watching this just makes me want to draw myself, and jump into the future with it.. without caring about anything else.
Happy 2020 looking at Syd Mead
Good choice of music to accompany the artwork!
This video was beautiful, visionary, inspiring, and not long enough.
Like Syd's life.
I degreed in Industrial Design because of him, and met him briefly at a Design Centre event with Colani. My ID teacher had met him and taken his class to visit his studio.
He's painted us a lovely target; we may yet be able to get there.
Never give up on the future.
The best kind of Art is the kinds that tell stories with no words
RIP and condolences to the family. As avid sci-fi fans I regularly saw his unique and gorgeous artworks. Such an inspirational figure. Thanks for the masterpieces.
Sydney Mead and Peter Elson stood out as artist who have shaped the future of design, these artists have left a legacy of pointing the human race in a direction of travel and a beautiful direction it is.
Thank you for all your content. Eternamente agradecido.
Thank you for watching!
Beautifully complimentary images and music. Syd created a future I yearned for and yearn for.
OH MY GOD. Thank you soooooo much for this. I have been looking for ANYTHING on this guy (because I somehow forgot his name, it happens) and can't find him included in sci fi illustration books. Well he is my very favorite illustrator an I believe he needs his own documentary and a massive coffee table book of his work. Thank you a million times.!!!!
Thank you. Very much. For the description as well (it was the first thing I looked after the video). I now wonder if I can find the same kind of video about other painters.
I'll never get tired looking at Syd Mead's designs and concept art. RIP Syd.
Thanks DistantMirrors for taking the time and effort to present such a phenomenal talent. I had neither heard of Syd nor seen his great talent! Thanks to you, you opened a window into a fascinating talent you presented so well. I used full screen and escaped into other worlds with this. Thank you very much for your magnanimous deed!
Thank you so much for your kind words!
I was a deep fan of Syd and his design vision ever since 1972 when I was a student of Architecture... Syd was a true GENIUS among us! RIP sir... the world has lost one of its greatest futurists... besides Ridley Scott, Apple’s Steve Jobs was a big fan as well! Thanks for posting.
Very well done montage and choice of music. Thank you!
Magnificent visions!
His work is simply amazing
I could leave this on repeat.
Love seeing his work. His art are a masterpiece.
This is the future I wanted to be in.
@Trey Stephens You still have time.
Absolutely stunning and moving!
Relevant upload even for future use. His art might live very long time :l
Beautiful, thxs!!
When most of us dreamed of an elegant future.... maybe one day...
R.I.P to a legend. His art will live on for the generations to come. Forever cementing his place in shaping our visual understanding of sci-fi. Truly a hallmark in time.
This piece by Steve Roach along with this video montage should be played in exhibitions showcasing the work of Syd Mead. It would be such a beautiful experience.
Thank you for this compilation. Syd Mead, the grandson of Leonardo da Vinci!
Thank you for this. I never knew of this artist but it is exactly what I'm in love with.