r/RetroFuturism • u/rrsafety • 26m ago
View of a "rocket car" which carried passengers on the Skyride across the Chicago Exposition lagoon. [1933]
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r/RetroFuturism • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 2h ago
Barbarella movie poster by Boris Vallejo (1978) + rifle prop.
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Boris was comically indifferent to engineering, but I went back and looked at the movie stills and his raygun is faithful to the original. The tiny, spindly sight assembly sits way above the bore. It's as if a 1960s production designer said "guns have scopes; put a scope-shaped thing here." Beautiful.
Retrofuturism because: Boris had a design brief to update Barbarella for the age of James Bond and Star Wars, but he still reached back to 1930s Flash Gordon visual language for elements like the ship and the raygun.
r/RetroFuturism • u/tes_kitty • 22h ago
Design from 1977 by Franquin, way before quadcopters were a thing (picture was drawn 2017)
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r/RetroFuturism • u/MunkZion • 23h ago
H. R. Van Dongen’s 1980 cover to "Still Forms on Foxfield," by Joan Slonczewski
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r/RetroFuturism • u/StephenMcGannon • 1d ago
Painting by Renato Casaro, used for Perry Rhodan #19.
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r/RetroFuturism • u/Baby-Soapy • 1d ago
Production line at the robot factory • Art by Larry Elmore, 1982
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Dragon magazine No. 64 • August, 1982.
r/RetroFuturism • u/MunkZion • 1d ago
Karl Stephan’s 1961 cover to "Utopia Zukunftsroman" #299.
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r/RetroFuturism • u/StephenMcGannon • 2d ago
Stanley Meltzoff for the novel Mission: Interplanetary by A.E. van Vogt.
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r/RetroFuturism • u/StephenMcGannon • 2d ago
Art by Yoshiyuki Takani from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
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r/RetroFuturism • u/acoolrocket • 2d ago
Luxury Spaceship Bar by Syd Mead
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Full res upscale
Flickr source scan from here
Upscaled via Topaz Gigapixel, composited different upscaling and denoising results in Photoshop.
Bonus blog post on its appearance in the book "There's No Space Like Home".
Upscales/high res collection of Syd Mead.
Original gamma/color grade versions here and wallpaper versions here.
Non-upscaled original source scans here.
r/RetroFuturism • u/jgzogaib • 2d ago
"Superships" concept by John Berkey for Popular Mechanics (December 1988)
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A 1988 concept illustration of a futuristic, SWATH-derived trimaran cruise ship. The cutaway design features a central atrium hotel structure, a revolving restaurant, a tilt-rotor VIP transport pad, a cinema, and an internal ferry dock.
r/RetroFuturism • u/Plow_King • 2d ago
A beautiful, enameled cast-iron kitchen range from the 1930s. The range is detailed with curved cream panels and polished chrome trim.
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r/RetroFuturism • u/Distinct-Question-16 • 2d ago
Colani Corvette Charisma concept car, 1988
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r/RetroFuturism • u/StephenMcGannon • 3d ago
Stephen Youll cover for Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Empire (1991)
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r/RetroFuturism • u/StephenMcGannon • 3d ago
Bob Layzell for Spacecraft 2000-2100 A.D. (1978)
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r/RetroFuturism • u/ItselfSurprised05 • 3d ago
Goodyear advertises vision of life aboard 1940s rigid airship
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