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.