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Typeset in the Future

Name: Typeset in the Future
Author: Dave Addey

Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies

Dave Addey,

264 pages
English
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Typeset in the Future

Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies

Dave Addey,

About this book

A designer's deep dive into seven science fiction films, filled with "gloriously esoteric nerdery [and] observations as witty as they are keen" ( Wired).
In Typeset in the Future, blogger and designer Dave Addey invites sci-fi movie fans on a journey through seven genre-defining classics, discovering how they create compelling visions of the future through typography and design.
The book delves deep into 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Alien, Blade Runner, Total Recall, WALL·E, and Moon, studying the design tricks and inspirations that make each film transcend mere celluloid and become a believable reality. These studies are illustrated by film stills, concept art, type specimens, and ephemera, plus original interviews with Mike Okuda ( Star Trek), Paul Verhoeven ( Total Recall), and Ralph Eggleston and Craig Foster (Pixar). Typeset in the Future is an obsessively geeky study of how classic sci-fi movies draw us in to their imagined worlds.

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FUTURE

TYPESET 

IN

THE

FUTURE

TYPESET 

IN

THE

TYPOGRAPHY 

AND

DESIGN 

IN

SCIENCE 

FICTION 

MOVIES

ABRAMS, 

NEW

YORK

DAVE 

ADDEY

FOREWORD 

BY

MATT 

ZOLLER 

SEITZ

4

TYPESET 

IN

THE

FUTURE

Alien

’s 

opening 

sequence 

introduces 

us

to

the

Nostromo

’s 

hypersleep 

pods, 

which 

can

be

found 

in

the

ship’s 

cryogenic 

vault. 

We

know 

that 

they 

are

in

the

ship’s 

cryogenic 

vault 

because 

of

the

inverted-blue-triangle-and-ﬂat-red-person 

icon 

in

the

bottom 

center 

of

this 

shot, 

which 

is

clearly 

labeled 

“CRYOGENIC 

VAULT” 

in

concept 

designer 

Ron

Cobb’s 

production 

sketches. 

This 

icon 

combines 

blue 

(“lowered 

thermal 

condition”) 

with 

red

(“viable, 

sound, 

alive, 

alertness”) 

as

part 

of

Cobb’s 

“Semiotic 

Standard” 

of

iconography 

and

color 

identiﬁcation 

seen 

throughout 

the

Nostromo

’s 

interior. 

(We’ll 

study 

Cobb’s 

semiotic 

standard 

in

more 

detail 

on

page 

60.)

FOREWORD

PREFACE

EUROSTILE

THE

RULES

2001: 

A

SPACE 

ODYSSEY

STEPHEN 

COLES

ALIEN

STAR 

TREK: 

THE

MOTION 

PICTURE

MIKE 

OKUDA

BLADE 

RUNNER: 

THE

FINAL 

CUT

ANTONIO 

CAVEDONI

TOTAL 

RECALL

PAUL 

VERHOEVEN

WALL

·

E

RALPH 

EGGLESTON 

&

CRAIG 

FOSTER

MOON

SUMMARY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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