Talk:Syd Mead

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A news item involving Syd Mead was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 2 January 2020.

I don't know how to properly do footnotes/citations, but if someone wants to take care of the 'citation needed' in the introductory paragraph-In much of his film work, he is billed as a "visual futurist" or "conceptual designer". (citation needed)--the answer is at IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574927/

• Mission: Impossible III (2006) (mask maker designer)
• Mission to Mars (2000) (conceptual artist)
• "Turn-A Gundam" (1999) TV series (concept designer)
• Wing Commander: Prophecy (1997) (VG) (conceptual artist)
• From Time to Time (1992) (production designer)
• Solar Crisis (1990) (conceptual artist)
• Aliens (1986) (conceptual artist)
• 2010 (1984) (visual futurist)
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) (production illustrator)
• Strange Days (1995) (playback deck and additional trode design)
• The Fire Next Time (1993) (TV) (futuristic concept consultant)
• TRON (1982) (conceptual artist)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995) (visual consultant)
• Timecop (1994) (visual consultant)
• Blade Runner (1982) (visual futurist)

BrianAshe (talk) 01:30, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

He also did the design for the video game, "Terraforming" on the PC Engine. http://www.pcengine.co.uk/HTML_Games/Terraforming.htm Thanks,Marasama (talk) 06:05, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The article is perilously obseqious, and is missing sourcing. Much of it reads as if its lifted from a company bio. This isn't good -- much of the information doesn't have any sourcing. I strongly suspect there are many legitimate sources that could support the article. 842U (talk) 11:40, September 5, 2018 (UTC)

The Cybertruck was heavily influenced by Syd Mead. I added a section, which someone removed as "undue weight." I feel it belongs in the article. The Cybertruck was a huge pop culture reference to Mead right before his death, and the one that will likely be in the public light in the coming few years. But I don't want to start an edit war. Here's the part I wrote (properly sourced with Wiki markup), please take a look and see if it should be in the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Syd_Mead&type=revision&diff=933502563&oldid=933502389 ElizaBarrington (talk) 19:43, 1 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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"Mead's one-man shows began in 1973 with an exhibit at documenta 6 in Kassel, West Germany. " - this is at least misleading, documenta 6 was 1977 (not 1973). Not sure what "one-man show" is supposed to mean here either. And finally this whole section appears to consist of unrelated and unstructured paragraphs ... Anyway, at least the year should be fixed, I did find a number of articles quoting this ("Syd Mead ... documenta 6 ... in 1973"). Sadly there's not much to be found about what he actually exhibited, though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcnolte (talk • contribs) 12:27, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]