Personal Info
Known For
Art
Birthday
1933-07-18
Deathday
2019-12-30
Place of Birth
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Syd Mead
Biography
Sydney Jay Mead (July 18, 1933 – December 30, 2019) was an American industrial designer and neo-futurist concept artist. He made 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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Syd Mead, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The Movies That Made Us
as Self
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
as Self
Superior Firepower: Making 'Aliens'
as Self
The Real History of Science Fiction
as Himself
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
as Self
The Blade Runner Phenomenon
as Self - Visual Futurist (1982)
Visual Futurist: The Art & Life of Syd Mead
as Self
2019: A Future Imagined
as Himself