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Syd Mead

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Syd Mead is a former designer for Ford Motor Company, U.S. Steel, and Philips Electronics. After establishing himself as a "Futurist" consultant, he has visualized technology and products for companies like Sony, Chrysler, Mechanix Illustrated, and Playboy. Syd's movie designs have appeared in 'Star Trek - The Motion Picture" (V'ger)... See full bio »

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Sydney Jay Mead
in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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2013/I Elysium (set designer) (post-production)
 
2006 Mission: Impossible III (mask maker designer)
 
2000 Mission to Mars (conceptual artist)
 
1999 Turn-A Gundam (TV series) (concept designer)
 
1997 Wing Commander: Prophecy (Video Game) (alien conceptual artist)
 
1994 Timecop (visual consultant)
 
1992 From Time to Time (short) (production designer: future Paris)
 
1990 Solar Crisis (conceptual artist: future)
 
1988 UFO Cover-Up?: Live! (TV documentary) (conceptual futurist)
 
1986 Aliens (conceptual artist)
 
1984 2010 (visual futurist)
 
1982 TRON (conceptual artist: electronic world)
 
1982 Blade Runner (visual futurist)
 
1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture (production illustrator: Apogee, Inc. - as Syd Meade)
 
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2000 Mission to Mars (vehicle designer)
 
1995 Strange Days (playback deck and additional trode design)
 
1993 The Fire Next Time (TV movie) (futuristic concept consultant)
 
1986 Short Circuit (consultant, robots designer)
 
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2010 Designed for Dreaming (short)
Futurist
 
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2000 Software (short)
 
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1999 Turn-A Gundam (TV series) (mechanical designer)
 
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1995 Johnny Mnemonic (visual consultant)
 
Show ShowThanks (2 titles)
2000 On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (TV documentary) (acknowledgment: still photographs provided by)
 
1990 The Spirit of '76 (special thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (10 titles)
2012 Nonfiction W (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Syd Mead (2012) … Himself
 
2011 BMW:Activate the Future (TV series documentary)
– How We'll Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Future (2011)
– Reinventing Mobility (2011)
– The Future Just Isn't What It Used to Be (2011)
– The New City (2011)
 
2008 2019: A Future Imagined (video short)
Himself
 
2007 Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (video documentary)
Himself
 
2006 Visual Futurist: The Art & Life of Syd Mead (documentary)
Himself
 
2004 Sentient Machines: Robotic Behavior (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2003 Superior Firepower: The Making of 'Aliens' (video documentary)
Himself
 
2002 Film Genre (TV series documentary)
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– Science Fiction (2002) … Himself
 
2000 On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (TV documentary)
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1984 2010: The Odyssey Continues (documentary short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
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2002 The Making of 'Tron' (video documentary)
Himself
 

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Other Works:

Essay "Designing the Future" in anthology "Omni's Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies: The Future According to Science Fiction Cinema." Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1984. ISBN 0385191995

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