'future-retro' art

didn't baph make a thread like this maybs three months ago? i think he did. someone should find it. but i'm lazy

  On 4/22/2011 at 5:18 PM, dr lopez said:

didn't baph make a thread like this maybs three months ago? i think he did. someone should find it. but i'm lazy

really? damn, i'll have a look see if i can find it. if it's entirely pertinent to what i'm after, thanks muchly

edit: you're a fucking genius, nice one thread

just google Syd Mead

  On 4/22/2011 at 5:20 PM, patternoverlap said:

just google Syd Mead

well i guess i was more hoping people would post some of their personal faves...you got any?

Artist Rick Guidice did some nice conceptual artwork for NASA back in the '70s depicting space colonies of the future. These are some of my favorites. I downloaded them a while back because I'm going to try to print out the hi-res versions for display in my home. :)

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Damn those are awesome Superstix!

reminds me of Ringworld a lot...

goddammit, we absolutely had this thread a year or less ago. and i posted the art of scott anderson last time too.

it's worth mentioning that the dystopian retro-futurism aesthetic is more of a point of origin rather than destination in this guy's work—just a very visually enriched jump-off point for otherwise-surreal works.

every picture in this thread (and the one baph started) is amazing. thank you everyone for posting stuff!

  On 4/22/2011 at 6:01 PM, Superstix said:

Artist Rick Guidice did some nice conceptual artwork for NASA back in the '70s depicting space colonies of the future. These are some of my favorites. I downloaded them a while back because I'm going to try to print out the hi-res versions for display in my home. :)

 

that's the one i was talking about! massive circular construct thing

  On 8/15/2010 at 11:54 PM, baph said:

this shit is incredible

  On 8/14/2010 at 1:03 AM, ruiagnelo said:

  On 8/14/2010 at 12:59 AM, baph said:

 

 

that one is incredible. seems to be a giant black hole, but looking deeper it may be a planet. i love how it contrasts with the orange sky and the ship.

Ummm maybe similar to the eye of jupiter?

  On 4/22/2011 at 7:50 PM, Billov said:

  On 8/15/2010 at 11:54 PM, baph said:

 

this shit is incredible

Definitely reminiscent of a scene from "Ringworld"

Awesome stuff though.

wicked thread.

Roger Dean, has more of a fantasy feel, definitely a similar atmosphere.

He did a lot of 1970s album art

Dan McPharlin

WE NEVER ARRIVE IN THE FUTURE

groin grabbingly good!

Where did you find these higher res images, chaosmachine? I spent a while looking for them for the OP but most were tiny.

  On 4/23/2011 at 11:36 PM, baph said:

Where did you find these higher res images, chaosmachine? I spent a while looking for them for the OP but most were tiny.

http://www.peterelson.co.uk/

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Need my Retro-futurism fix ya'll.