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"Visual futurist" Syd Mead is an industrial designer and neo-futuristic concept artist.
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Syd Mead and Craig Hodgetts A concept drawing by Syd Mead of a futuristic street scene for "Blade Runner" (1982) Syd Mead envisioned the Spinner flying police cars in Blade Runner, the Light Cycles in Tron and the U.S.S. Sulaco in Aliens. His fingerprints are also on the built universes these vehicles inhabit. Now he and architect Craig Hodgetts have published a new…
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