Syd Mead

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Concept art from Blade Runner appears in the book - the Film-the art of Syd Mead : Visual Futurist

artist Syd Mead , who was best known for his designs on the sci-fi film Blade Runner , died in California at the age of 86.

The dystopian 1982 classic, directed by Ridley Scott , based on a Philip K Dick novel.

Mead worked as a concept designer on the film, as well as to others, including Star Trek , Aliens and Tron.

He died on Monday of complications from lymphoma. His death was confirmed to The Press of his husband, Roger Servick.

"only The Future Met"

- who began his career as an industrial designer for Ford Motor Company 's William Cameron Menzies Award at the organization's annual ceremony in February was due to the Art Directors Guild '.

in the Last month, ADG President Nelson Coates , said Mead , "played a crucial role in the design of the cinema", and the determination to visualize his "unique ability, The Future will be".

He added: "As one of The Most influential conceptual artists conceptual Our Time , his visions and illustrations of Future technological worlds remain as a testimony of his great Imagination . "

designing a scene in which Zhora's dancing in Taffey's Snake Pit bar Blade Runner

In an interview in the year 2015, Mead explains where the inspiration for his futuristic cityscapes in Blade Runner , in Los Angeles in the distant year of 2019.

"For a city in the year 2019, which is not far from now, I thought the model of Western cities such as New York or Chicago, which have been designed according to the invention, the Transport and the car, with the grid and linear Transport "

Blade Runner was nominated for two Oscars for best visual effects and best production design

"I, we were at 2,500 feet, now we want to boost it to 3,000 meters, And Then , The City has the claim-the upper town and lower town. The way in The Basement , and Decent People who simply do not want to go there. "

He added: "In my head, all the high buildings have a sky-lobby, and no one is on the 30 floor, and this is the way, the life would be organized for you. "

A Blade Runner sketch of a police-car tribute in the year 2019 in Los Angeles at the time, the entrepreneur Elon Musk was 37 years in The Future

engineering and technology-among those on Twitter.

Mead , the much beloved Johnny 5 robot for the 1986 Comedy science film designed to Short -circuit, about a military robot who gains human intelligence, after being hit by a Lightning .

Short -circuit actor Steve Guttenberg poses with the Johnny 5 robot in the year 2018

In 2013, Met a journalist, John Mcelroy , he had previously said, to be able to the emergence of a self-driving car, or the "electric herd" to compare, in 1980, with a horse, was a drunken cowboy, the home of the saloon.

In an NPR interview in 2011, Mead explained: "To me, Science Fiction is reality ahead of its time".

Mead 's design for the 2015-Disney-sci-fi-mystery-adventure film Tomorrowland

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