Seminar Presentation 2011

Presentation on the visual language of science fiction; segway into discussion on dualities, false dichotomies, ism independence, the state of the design, etc etc

Transcript

1. DESIGNING THE FUTURE graphic design + the visualization of science fiction literature Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. — Orson Welles CHRISTINA LATINA
2. science fiction is an ism-defying visual language a multitude of science fiction book designs over the decades, appropriating the isms of respective periods, yet to me, tends to defy datedness. science fiction is metaxy, neither in the present nor in the future; occupying a middle ground that enables it, like design, to exist as it wants, free of direct association. where is the visual direction of contemporary science fiction design? will the growing shift to a more spiritual nature in the science fiction genre change the nature of this metaxy, or is it converging with an emerging new ism?
4. Ninteen-Eighty-Four 1949, George Orwell The Time Machine 1895, HG Wells Sirens of Titan 1959, Kurt Vonnegut Neuromancer 1984, William Gibson Solaris 1961, Stanislav Lem
5. The Time Machine, 1895 By HG Wells Design by various illustrators, designers
6. Nineteen-Eighty-Four, 1949 By George Orwell Design by various illustrators, designers
7. Sirens of Titan, 1959 By Kurt Vonnegut Jr Design by various illustrators, designers
8. Solaris, 1961 By Stanislav Lem Design by various illustrators, designers Neuromancer, 1984 By William Gibson Design by various illustrators, designers
9. Subspace Explorers, 1977 By EE Smith Design by Chris Foss (1977) The Reproductive System, 1977 By John Sladek Designed by Chris Foss (1977) The Gigh Rise, 1977 By JG Ballard Designed by Chris Foss (1977)
10. Slaughterhouse Five, 1969 By Kurt Vonnegut Jr Design by Carin Goldberg (1989) 1Q84, 1972 By Isaac Azimov Designed by David November (1972)
11. In Other Worlds, 2011 | Oryx & Crake, 2004 By Margaret Atwood Design by Unkown | Michael J Windsor
12. 1Q84, 2011 By Haruki Murakami Designed by Chip Kidd
13. THANKS!
14. Saul Bass,1974 feature length science fiction film ‘Phase IV’ “Quiet, haunting, beautiful, and largely overlooked, science-fiction masterwork” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTv4WYHsncQ