For Ridley Scott’s 1982 movie Blade Runner, filmmakers called upon concept artist Syd Mead to imagine the dystopian world of 2019 Los Angeles. In the science-fiction film, Rick Deckard, (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD officer of the Blade Runner unit, is assigned to track down bioengineered humanoids called replicants. Deckard’s personal vehicle is Police Sedan Number 56, a “spinner” that has been decommissioned and stripped of its ability to fly. (Angelinos: tell me that doesn’t remind you just a bit of a self-driving WayMo). Continue reading Eye On Design: Deckard Sedan Movie Car from Blade Runner→
The School of Visual Arts is reaching for the stars with an inspiring new collaboration between its BFA Illustration and BFA Design students and NASA. The result? A stunning poster exhibition celebrating next spring’s highly anticipated Artemis II mission, which will send four astronauts on a journey around the Moon and pave the way for future human exploration of Mars. Continue reading SVA Students Collaborate with NASA for Earthrise Poster Exhibition→
Show your unwavering devotion to the corporate philosophy of Lumon Industries with this sleek T-shirt featuring the Nine Core Principles, as seen on the wildly popular Apple TV series Severance. Praise Kier! Continue reading Severance T Shirt: Lumon’s Core Principles→
Most of the props, sets, costumes, and models from the film 2001: A Apace Odyssey (1968) were intentionally destroyed by Director Stanley Kubrick to prevent their reuse in other productions; this surviving Aries 1B Spaceship Model is a rarity. Continue reading Eye On Design: Aries 1-B Spaceship Model from Kubrick’s 2001→
Lost in Space was a popular sci-fi television series (1965 to 1968) that used Johann David Weiss’s 19th century novel Swiss Family Robinson as a template. The series imagined an overcrowded earth in the year 1997, with humans sent to space to colonize other planets. Continue reading Lost In Space Off-World Chariot→
