SIGNED Syd Mead Sentinel II US Steel Concepts Visual Futurist Space Worlds PB DJ
Item History & Price
Syd Mead Sentinel II SIGNED by Syd Mead Japan. Kodansha International Ltd. / Oblagon. 1987. First Edition. Softcover. With the dust jacket. SIGNED by Syd Mead on the first free endpaper. Dated. 116 pages profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. Good plus in a good plus dust jacket.
The volume features many of noted futurist Syd Mead's innovative conceptual designs, vehicles and environments; including reproductions of many of his ren...owned U.S. Steel Concepts. Forward Syd Mead is a visualiser of the American Dream, taking the year A.D. 2000 as his time and place reference. The cluster-pod housing, computer-guided automobiles, walking trucks, three-dimensional laseramas, space worlds and outrageous scenarios are part of a ubiquitous vocabulary for the future. His design strategy is the only one possible for a visual futurist; he shapes the future in order to predict it. Syd Mead's technical conviction and brilliant illustrative finish lend a sense of purpose and heightened reality to the chrome, steel and glass that form these ideas, whether depicting personal transport ideas, urban invention, or imagined megastructures in outer space. As was the original SENTINEL book, SENTINEL II is a visual encyclopedia of possible fantasies.
Good plus in a good plus dust jacket. Edge wear. Minuscule right angle crease to the lower right hand corner. Few small creases to the covers. Internally, unmarked. Long thin unobtrusive vertical crease to the first free endpaper. Minuscule right angle crease to the lower right hand corner throughout. Hint of tanning to page edges. Nice tight binding. Gorgeous illustrations. The dust jacket has some scratches and scuff marks more so to the DJ back cover. Oblagon sticker to the DJ back cover. Little loss of laminate to the top edge DJ back cover. Crease to the top edge DJ front and back covers. Two small repaired tears to the head of the DJ spine. Long moderate vertical crease to the front DJ flap.
All in all a very nice copy of the book.
Fantastic collectible signed book by the late great amazing Syd Mead.
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The volume features many of noted futurist Syd Mead's innovative conceptual designs, vehicles and environments; including reproductions of many of his ren...owned U.S. Steel Concepts. Forward Syd Mead is a visualiser of the American Dream, taking the year A.D. 2000 as his time and place reference. The cluster-pod housing, computer-guided automobiles, walking trucks, three-dimensional laseramas, space worlds and outrageous scenarios are part of a ubiquitous vocabulary for the future. His design strategy is the only one possible for a visual futurist; he shapes the future in order to predict it. Syd Mead's technical conviction and brilliant illustrative finish lend a sense of purpose and heightened reality to the chrome, steel and glass that form these ideas, whether depicting personal transport ideas, urban invention, or imagined megastructures in outer space. As was the original SENTINEL book, SENTINEL II is a visual encyclopedia of possible fantasies.
Good plus in a good plus dust jacket. Edge wear. Minuscule right angle crease to the lower right hand corner. Few small creases to the covers. Internally, unmarked. Long thin unobtrusive vertical crease to the first free endpaper. Minuscule right angle crease to the lower right hand corner throughout. Hint of tanning to page edges. Nice tight binding. Gorgeous illustrations. The dust jacket has some scratches and scuff marks more so to the DJ back cover. Oblagon sticker to the DJ back cover. Little loss of laminate to the top edge DJ back cover. Crease to the top edge DJ front and back covers. Two small repaired tears to the head of the DJ spine. Long moderate vertical crease to the front DJ flap.
All in all a very nice copy of the book.
Fantastic collectible signed book by the late great amazing Syd Mead.
00420
