Studio Image 2 by Syd Mead - (Rgb Collection) (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The RGB collection reissue utilizes conceptual sketches, as well as full-color illustrations to provide a glimpse of the future, as it was in the past, through the eyes of one of the greatest visionaries of our lifetime.

Studio Image 2 sketchbook is the second in the Studio Image series by the late, world-renowned artist/visual futurist, Syd Mead.

Utilizing conceptual sketches, as well as full-color illustrations, this title gives viewers a glimpse of the future through the eyes of one of the great visionaries of his time. Artwork included ranges from practical designs for products to illustrations of spacecraft and fantasy worlds.

Included are workups and illustrations from the motion picture Short Circuit and the poster series commissioned for Lockheed's Advanced Tactical Fighter, as well as illustrations featured first at the time.

This reissue of a lavish 16.5" x 11.75", 36-page book with 36 pieces of artwork is required for anyone who has ever had an interest in the future as Syd Mead's visions continue to be futurist decades after his artwork.

Printed on high-quality 16 1/2" x 11 3/4" varying paper stock, to represent the various stages of the conceptual process, this book features the emerging ideas in sketch form and further showcases some of Syd Mead's finest illustrations in a format suitable for framing.

Review Quotes

His was an expansive world, with technology that was both more advanced and more fantastical than our own; vehicles that were both more stylish and more luxurious; buildings that were both more graceful and geometric; and cities that were simultaneously brighter and darker in tone. His photographs of extraterrestrial life broadened our perspective and encouraged us to look to the stars.
His mental landscapes were futuristic, but they still had a flair for drama and pageantry. There lived among them people who were more handsome, beautiful, muscular, and graceful than we were. In the simplest of situations, they appeared to be performing heroic deeds. - Jesse J., Soldat