INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE

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brazil (terry gilliam, 1985)

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Artist Unknown

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“Tied Up at the Office” by Basil Wolverton, circa 1960s.

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Royal Space Force : Wings of Honneamise (1987)

This isn’t a great movie, in fact it’s a fairly average one that I’d hesitate to suggest to anyone even (doubly due to a particularly offensive scene in it). However, it is my single favorite movie to suggest to people if we’re talking about world design. Here, the anime studio Gainax went beyond even what they’d later do with Neon Genesis Evangelion.

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Royal Space Force : Wings of Honneamise (1987)

Mechanical designs from the movie

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Fuji Film Fujichrome 100 advertisements, 1989-91

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from ZEN & THE ART OF MACINTOSH by MICHAEL GREEN 1986

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Detail from Bell Telephone ad, December 1963.

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1930s Japanese Art Deco Tea/Coffee Set.

(via eBay)

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Georgia O’Keefe ‘New York Street with Moon’ ca.1925.

(via eBay)

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Golden Eye, 1970’s matchbox label.

Found here.

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Art Deco Clock, 1930s. Glass, chrome-plated metal, England. Via flysfo

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Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (Germany’s security agency), Köln. Submitted by 1243321111

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Oskar Fischinger from Raumlichtkunst, 1926/2012

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from Oskar Fischinger's An Optical Poem (1938).