I came across this whilst looking artwork by Blade Runner conceptual artist Syd Mead.
Futurness is a online gallery of fictional and real life technology concepts, products, buildings and artwork with a 1950′s – 80′s Sci-Fi vibe. If you like retro tech, them you might get a kick out of these galleries. I know I do
Here’s a few examples -
The Internet is full of them but I’ll never tire of looking at fan art retro styled movie posters, especially classic Sci-Fi. Check out some of these cool SW posters.
You can see more at http://www.addours.com/lifestyle/retro-star-wars-posters/
The Sega Master System surely has to be one of the coolest looking consoles of all to time. Great shape, even greater paint job and cool looking logic drawings giving it an edgier, Sci-fi look.
Great basis for a DIY retro gamer sofa?
More picture here -
Check out this series of digital photos created by artist Jherin Miller combining vintage photography styles and pixel art. Think I might have a go at some of these myself. Inspiring stuff indeed!
Gotta love these fan made NES box covers inspired by classic Alfred Hitchcock movies. Think I might have a go myself one of these days…been a while since I’ve watched a Hitchcock movie too. Am thinking Vertigo.
For more fun illustrations, please visit – http://jo3bot.com/Home.html
‘What if the most scary 80′s film horror characters were alive now?’
http://www.behance.net/gallery/HORROR-VACUI/3247913
Loving the picture of the twins from The Shining! I do hope this artist produces more of these. Rusty Terminators anyone?
Hehe, check out these retro styled poster designs for the lazy traveller.
This one in particular made me smile.
www.collegehumor.com/article/6741369/travel-posters-for-lazy-people
I’ve always loved those early Nintendo box covers with their black covers and chunky pixel art design (and the minimilistic Sega Master System covers too) and so it’s great to see that someone at Racketboy has posted pictures of some of those early NES titles to enjoy.
Not only a great cover but a pretty damn fine conversion of the arcade original too.
Here’s the link
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/collecting-nes-black-box-sprite-art-games
This past week, friends on my social network have all been excited about a fun little web app that been released for converting a digital photo to make it look like it was created on the Commodore C64. For retro computers fans, it’s well worth checking out!
You may recall that I’d done something similar in Photoshop for my c64 ITX PC project some time ago (see blog post http://stiggyblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/commodore-c64-xp-bliss/ ) but this web app make the whole process a lot easier and doing a comparison to my earlier photoshop attempt looks much more authentic than my own DIY effort.
Having browsed to http://c64.superdefault.com/ you are presented with the familiar Commodore 64 boot screen, and prompted to drag/drop an image from your harddrive which you want to convert (note, this does not overwrite your original image). For this example, I’ve used the Windows XP Bliss wallpaper again.
Once you’ve done that, the image is processed and whilst you wait, you’re presented with those famous loading bars reminiscent of many C64 game loads…those were the days!
…and here we go – Microsoft Windows XP, Commodore C64 style!
If you think this is fun and want to take things a few steps further, I highly recommend you check out the wonderfully titled ‘Retro X’. It’s a very feature rich program that can be used to convert digital images to a whole host of retro computer formats including Sinclair Spectrum, Atari, MSX, Commodore,Tandy and many more.
Here’s my original image -
MGT – Sam Coupe
Acorn Electron
ZX Spectrum
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
Commodore C64
Commodore Amiga ECS (HAM mode).
Check out Retro X at http://members.inode.at/838331/retrox.html
