"Retro-Futuristic" Art Inspiration
Most of us had those books that told us how the future would be. It was pretty neat and funny because most of those predictions didn't come true. Today, it's a great source of inpiration.
The Usborne Book of the Future was first published in 1979 by Usborne Books, and written by Kenneth Gatland and David Jefferis. A trip in time to the year 2000 and beyond. See the robots, machines and cities of the future, and then travel to the stars. To check more pages of it, click here.
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Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo, a 24 years old designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. I work as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobbie for me since 1999. At Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you guys... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! Cheers!
Quite unusual to see how people thought about this days and how wired would have been. All tough the robots are on their way, and the cars are nicer :)
ROFL
LOL - those are so funny now.
No fair - its way past the year 2000, where is my personal Robot and my space jetpack!!
Interesting point - where are the modern versions of those books?
I think that maybe technology advances so fast these days that kids wouldn't be as interested as the were back in '79.
I HAD THIS BOOK! I ALSO HAD THE USBORNE BOOK OF GHOSTS. Both of these books where firm favourites of mine and my brothers. I was so very scared that our future was going to end up like the smog ridden prophecy on image 6. thanks for bringing back fond memories.
Yeah, a lot of that stuff hasn't come true, but the art is still really cool. Thanks for sharing.
There is a designer who has a retro looking robot portfolio site that is pretty nice. It's here.
I still have this books, but in spanish, I love them cause when I was a child they were my favorite, they were so naive but in this time for me they had the value of an encyclopedy... I remember that in these books they didn´t talk a thing about world or religion. this kind of books belong to a very nice collection that talked about UFO's, ghosts... just great
The 1991 - 2000 timechart is pretty interesting -
"Genetic engineering, the artificial improvement of plant or animal breeds is used to make super-strains of wheat, corn, barley, maize, and may other crop foods. " -http://www.pointlessmuseum.com/museum/usbornebookofthefuture033.php
Great! It covers land air and water.. and implied that there will be more to add :)
I really like the retro futuristic stuff. You should do a follow up post with more links. Its cool because its funny when the predictions are way off and then eerie when they got even close to what happened. I noticed your running this site on Drupal, *nice*.
The pages have a real nice style about them, pity that most websites and print dont follow something like this.
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