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artist Syd Mead , who was best known for his designs on the sci-fi film Blade Runner , died in California at the age of 86.

The dystopian 1982 classic, directed by Ridley Scott , based on a Philip K Dick novel.

Mead worked as a concept designer on the film, as well as to others, including Star Trek , Aliens and Tron.

He died on Monday of complications from lymphoma. His death was confirmed to The Press of his husband, Roger Servick.

- who began his career as an industrial designer for Ford Motor Company 's William Cameron Menzies Award at the organization's annual ceremony in February was due to the Art Directors Guild '.

in the Last month, ADG President Nelson Coates , said Mead , "played a crucial role in the design of the cinema", and the determination to visualize his "unique ability, The Future will be".

He added: "As one of The Most influential conceptual artists conceptual Our Time , his visions and illustrations of Future technological worlds remain as a testimony of his great Imagination . "

In an interview in the year 2015, Mead explains where the inspiration for his futuristic cityscapes in Blade Runner , in Los Angeles in the distant year of 2019.

"For a city in the year 2019, which is not far from now, I thought the model of Western cities such as New York or Chicago, which have been designed according to the invention, the Transport and the car, with the grid and linear Transport "

"I, we were at 2,500 feet, now we want to boost it to 3,000 meters, And Then , The City has the claim-the upper town and lower town. The way in The Basement , and Decent People who simply do not want to go there. "

He added: "In my head, all the high buildings have a sky-lobby, and no one is on the 30 floor, and this is the way, the life would be organized for you. "

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Mead , the much beloved Johnny 5 robot for the 1986 Comedy science film designed to Short -circuit, about a military robot who gains human intelligence, after being hit by a Lightning .

In 2013, Met a journalist, John Mcelroy , he had previously said, to be able to the emergence of a self-driving car, or the "electric herd" to compare, in 1980, with a horse, was a drunken cowboy, the home of the saloon.

In an NPR interview in 2011, Mead explained: "To me, Science Fiction is reality ahead of its time".

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