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Book notes: 'The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist' part 1

Book notes: 'The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist' part 1

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Book notes: 'The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist' part 1
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This time I’m taking a look at The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist, by Craig Hodgetts and Syd Mead, out in 2017 from Titan Books.

I already did a Mead book recently, but it didn’t have a lot of text, and mostly looked at a big list of Mead works, explaining what made them work on a technical level. Which was cool! But didn’t tell me a lot about M…

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