Syd Mead and forward thinking.

Syd Mead, the great conceptual artist, is renowned for his incredibly innovative conceptual illustrations and designs. What many fail to realise is that people who move an industry forward are people who disable cultural influences. The ethos' of these people tend to be generative of an internal motivation. External influences are important when it comes to physically realising practical ideas, but only the soul can create visions which can be inspired by others.

As a design student, one area always crops up; morality and ethics. As a designer, should you empower people or reflect what they wish? In ruthless honesty, I think that mass markets are only rarely empowered through design. The iPhone is definitely one of those products. The uncomprehending are a mass market, and consume our planet with obvious and devastating actions. As a whole, the world consists of such imperfections. A minority still hold the type of conciousness which was mean't, whilst the rest simply dissolve into the boundary bearing, association clenching, authority derived sphere of morphed reality. Syd Mead is one of those people who can APPLY his internally derived concious thoughts towards his life.

Words to the wise; analyse from within, but understand from without. Here is an inspiring photo. Read, look and think: