Typeset in the future: typography and design in science fiction movies, hardcover/dave addey

Description 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--and how they have come to represent THE FUTURE in popular culture.

About the author Dave Addey is the creator of the website Typeset in the Future, a detailed, geeky, and humorous study of the design and typography of classic science fiction movies.

He is a designer, writer, and software developer based in Santa Cruz, California.

Matt Zoller Seitz is the editor-in-chief of RogerEbert.

com, the TV critic for New York Magazine, the author of The Wes Anderson Collection, The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel , The Oliver Stone Experience , and Mad Men Carousel , and the coauthor of TV (The Book ).

He is based in New York City.