Amazing Stories, vol 43 no 2, July 1969. Cover art uncredited, also used for Perry Rhodan #237 (1966) and attributed to Johnny Bruck.
New Worlds, Vol 6, No 16, July 1952. Cover art by Bob Clothier.
No, your eyes do not deceive you. That’s a retro-futuristic design for a breastfeeding robot from 1960s Japan.
Motopia: The City of The 60s’ Tomorrow. Cars drive on elevator streets, while pedestrians zip around on moving sidewalks.
"Planned for construction about 17 miles west of London with an estimated cost of about $170 million, Motopia was a bold—if somewhat impractical plan—for a city built from the ground up. The town was envisioned as being able to have a population of 30,000, all living in a grid-pattern of buildings with an expanse of rooftop motorways in the sky."
via Smithsonian
What happened? Instead of building up, we built out and created sprawling suburbs and exurbs of single family homes.
Sci-Fi Saturday
House of the Future in Disneyland, 1958. Via Gorillas Don’t Blog.
TRIPLE-TAILED CRAFT began as a ’51 Studebaker sedan, was drastically rebuilt in 4,000 man-hours of labor. It has a V-8 engine and a curb weight of 1,000 pounds. The body is made of 14 glass-fiber subassemblies. Gas-tank opening is under center tail light.
Modern Mechanix, March 1954 Kansas - Kustomrama
Retro futuristic designs were so much more interesting than the cars the future actually brought.
Retro futurism alive and well in... North Korea.
Here, the 1981 kids’ book “Future War and Weapons” by Neil Ardley tries to come up with a gritty dystopian future, instead settles on goofy primary-color police helmets. Classic retro-futurism.
Amazing Stories, vol 43 no 2, July 1969. Cover art uncredited, also used for Perry Rhodan #237 (1966) and attributed to Johnny Bruck.
New Worlds, Vol 6, No 16, July 1952. Cover art by Bob Clothier.
Yeah, so this is my favorite thing ever.
Retro Futurism
I still believe one day we'll have cities like this.
Two more years...
"First Contact," painted 1965 by German futurist Klaus Bürgle for Das Neue Universum.
"City under the Sea" painted 1964 by German futurist Klaus Bürgle for Das Neue Universum.
Another futuristic concept car. Six wheels?