Syd Mead – Futurist, utopian and designer
Abstract/Summary
When I first came across Syd Mead’s work back in the late sixties and early seventies it was popular to strongly criticize his illustrative abilities as being all about the background and not about the design.
I think that the truth was that all us young designers were so overwhelmed by his spectacular technique that we never dared look past the method for fear of realizing how talented a designer Mead was, and how far we had to progress to match him […]