Thanks riichkay,
When Los Angeles magazine celebrated 50 years in 2011, Syd Mead was asked to create a fantasy cover for the 100th anniversary issue in June, 2061. He repurposed his 1988 illustration since his future never goes out of style. Enlargements of his cover, along with those by other artists including Charles Phoenix and Jim Heimann, were displayed in the magazine's lobby that year.
https://lamag.com/news/future-covers1
By visual futurist Syd Mead
Mead has imagined downtown Los Angeles, circa 2061: “Looking west, automated vehicles glide down First Street (City Hall is on the right) toward the Civic Center from San Pedro Street, which has become a major east-west corridor separating the central business district from the new civic government center. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, seen in the distance, is dwarfed by one of two 200-story mega high-rises downtown.”
By histotainer and humorist Charles Phoenix
Phoenix was inspired by an early 1960s water-transfer decal that he found on the side window of a Volkswagen bus in a Marina Del Rey parking lot after a hearty breakfast several years ago. “The intoxicating Day-Glo color palate, perky pixilation, and sensible screened graphics are as fresh today as they will be fifty years from now,” he says.
By urban anthropologist and Taschen executive editor Jim Heimann
Anticipating what he calls “the slow decline of printed material,” Heimann designed this cover to be digitally friendly. He has reimagined the Los Angeles magazine logo in “fonts of ‘Mexican Black Letter’ used in vernacular lettering found throughout the urban environment” and his headlines feature “languages dominant in the current Los Angeles,” while subheadlines nod to the city’s Anglo past.
By Alan Leib, Regina O’Brien and Chris Green for ModCom
This cover, created on behalf of the Modern Committee of the Los Angeles Conservancy (ModCom)—the organization credited with preserving the oldest original McDonald’s in Downey and the Capitol Records building in Hollywood, among others—by former ModCom chair Alan Leib, chair Regina O’Brien, and membership chair/graphic artist Chris Green, is “an attempt to examine the issues preservationists of the architectural ‘recent past’ will be dealing with in 2061.” Dodger Stadium appears “under threat of redevelopment,” the fate of gas stations as we know them is up in the air, and Justin Bieber might be mayor.
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Great find Snix, I had no idea Simmons had a restaurant.
While we are on magazines, here's the cover of the Sunday Times mag for April 3, 1988.....
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