In the Year 2000: Syd Mead Spacesuits (and More)

It’s only been around for a day, but our new “In the Year 2000” Flickr group is already up to almost 72 members. How rad is that? Uploads haven’t come in hot and heavy yet—okay, we’ve just had one—but it’s a winner: a triptych of images from one of my personal favorite futurist illustrators, Syd Mead. Nice catch, Octal Kahn!

Syd Mead Trio [Flickr]

1. [GeekAlerts]

   Yummy! I’ll see if I can find some.

2. [kiint]

   Octal Khan here, glad you liked it. I’ve actually got three amazing portfolio’s of high-quality lithographs of Mead’s, done for General Motors in the 60′s and 70′s which is chock-full of this kind of stuff. Ill try and scan and upload some of them. He was actually quite accurate in some cases.

3. [Anonymous]

   Almost 72?.. what, 71 3/5ths ?

   why not “more than 70″?

   Cheers

4. [Joel Johnson]

   #3: Quiet! I’m an artist.

5. [TC Giant]

   I freakin’ love Syd Mead. Some days I wish we lived in HIS future instead of our own. :/

6. [Anonymous]

   Flickr???
   I thought boingboing would be into something more open and a little less corporate and oppressive.
   Have you seen Zooomr?
   Or photo.net?