The future, brought to you by the past

JA August 15

There’s some very Bradbury-esque about these concept designs/ads. The first lot are from the book Power Styling, a publication produced in the 1960s in which various utility companies were asked by United States Steel to re-invision power stations in a way that was both beautiful and functional. According to Grain Edit, these are most likely by Henry Dreyfuss and Associates.

The second is a collaboration between architect Rudy Hermes and artist Charley Harper for Ford cars, again placing the vehicles amid outlandish, futuristic backdrops. Done circe 1959, via visualingual and but does it float.

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