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This is a great book showcasing just a snippet of Syd Mead's life works - concept art and sketches cover a range of areas like town planning, architecture, industrial design and movie and game artifacts. A fair balance of industry applicable industrial design and science fiction design in a big 175 page large format book with at least one sketch or artwork on every page, with always an interesting and insightful caption by Mead. Be warned: this book doesn't showcase any of Mead's more notable works like Aliens and Bladerunner - most of the movies covered were either not released or not blockbusters (e.g Johnny Mnemonic, Mission to Mars), but nonetheless they all present unique and intriguing concepts. If you're a designer and futurist, this is a must have.

This book is showing recent Mead's works. Almost picture is draft level or concept level, though there may be problem of business contract. Undoubtedly, level of his work is high. But I do not feel spirit or enthusiasm from pictures of this book. His best is Sentinel2, I think. Did he get old?

I could not sleep after read,watch and feel this "New Bible". I have never seen before such colorfull visons in Syd Mead any Art Books.Even United States Steel Book: Perspective,Innovations, Concepts,Sentinel,Oblagon,RGB Studio Image series,Future Car at Laforet,Techno Fantasy,Sentinel 2,Kronolog(Kronovecta/Kronoteco),Kronolog 2 Future Concpts,MEAD GUNDAM........I feel his "Origin" at last chapter : Fantasy Drawing section. This art book must be our "New Text" to the next "Sentury". MUST BUY !!!