• more about #conceptdesign
    Jes St.Lawrence: If, like me, you're having difficulty getting "Xenos Cosmos" to play, here's a live performance of it: [www.youtube.com] more »
    Golem100: I have an album (as in vinyl) titled "Great Science Fiction Film Music". All of the selections are by Bernard Hermann. Contains "Fahrenheit 451", "J... more »
    Adam Porter: Click the $'s, those are download links. more »
    PossibleAI: Does anybody know where I could buy some of this music? I can't find it on itunes or amazon. Even a simple google search for "Xenos Cosmos APM Music"... more »
    PossibleAI: This is fun to hear. Thank you very much indeed! I'm really impressed with Xenos Cosmos. The songs don't remind me of Raumpatrouille. More of early T... more »
    SeeingI: The Cyberman theme from 60s Dr Who was awesome. I think it was called "Space Adventure" or something. [www.youtube.com] more »
    Plague: ...or you can start with Peter Thomas' "Raumpatrouille" to ease yourself in to soundtracks/library music. Hell, anything by him. more »
    Shikome: Raymond Scott, one of the fathers: more »
    cletar: Ok, how can I download Xenos Cosmos? more »
    gods-n-clods: Make with some downloads! more »
    John Hazard: Holy crap- isn't the track "Survivor Hamburg" basically the theme song of "House"? more »
    SpammerOvTheGods: i have to have this #@! more »
    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Nice Stuff!!! And any and all of you should try as hard as you can to find Janko's "Psyc Impressions" album. more »
    Chip Overclock: Thanks for writing this! I'm not sure library music is in my future (although I've had colleagues that have used it as the soundtrack to computer grap... more »
    cylon_conspiracy: Rachel Weiss is in this movie? Rachel Weiss in 70s fashions? That changes everything. Yeah probably going to have to see this now. more »
    ThisDudeRufus: Did dads actually have that haircut in the 70's? How do you have any respect for a father figure who looks like one of the Kinks? more »
    firstanointed: This is gonna. Except for Whalberg. But nevertheless, it will rock. more »
    FlyLikeAMouse: The Lovely Bones is one of the best books I've ever read and Peter Jackson/Fran Walsh did with LotR the best book adaptation I've ever seen. Suffice ... more »
    Grinning Kestrel: I really like the contrast of the images with the girl. Her eyes are especially striking in the image of the field. more »
    Wookie1972: I guess Lucas gets no love, either. more »
  • #music

    Journey to the Unknown World of Science Fiction Library Music

    Library music is something you hear all the time in science fiction movies and TV without realizing it. These weird, ambient tunes are created cheaply by talented session musicians, often working anonymously, and many of them are beautifully futuristic. More »
  • #lovelybones

    Get A Better Look At Peter Jackson's Purgatory

    Here are 26 images that will take you deep into the gorgeous afterworld of Peter Jackson's Lovely Bones. The main character, a murdered young woman, lives in a Purgatory that blends New Zealand and American Suburbia, flavored with 1970s kitsch. More »
  • #poll

    Which Science Fiction Movie Gives The Best Corridor?

    Ubernerd Martin Anderson argues in a surprisingly persuasive essay that corridors - from trippy to utilitarian - are crucial to great scifi concept design. Check out these famous scifi corridors and tell us which corridor rules them all. More »
  • #futureappliances

    Combination Computer and Kitchen Eliminates the Need to Walk to the Fridge

    This space-saving concept chills your food, makes your coffee, and checks your email all from a single piece of furniture, ensuring that you are never more than a few feet away from your snacks or your screen. More »
  • #scifashion

    Discarded Ethernet Cables Become Recycled Fashion in Colombia

    Environmentalists worry about piles of non-recyclable e-waste, or discarded high-tech equipment. And somehow that's led to an explosion of ethernet cable fashion, as you can see in this recent fashion show in Medellin, Colombia. More »
  • #conceptdesign

    A Mega-Molecule That Invaded The OC

    Though the upstanding citizens of Orange County, CA, tried to defend themselves against this crystalline molecule entity, their weapons were no use. Its translucent hulk dominated the skyline for years. More »
  • #sciencedesign

    Flowers After the Nanotech Revolution

    These flowers dangle delicately, but you cannot pluck them. They're made of precision-etched metal, and contain an electrified light source. More »
  • #conceptart

    The Tidal Wave That Destroys Us At Last

    A surreal tidal wave as high as a skyscraper is about to bear down on this city and destroy it forever. No it's not ripped from the pages of a climate change report - it's one of the many worlds designed by British design student Jon McCoy, who revels in the apocalyptic. More »
  • #williambhand

    Monster Fight!!!

    Man, I just love a good monster-on-monster wrestling match. Thinking about Hellboy 2 coming out next week is getting me all excited about cool monster fights, and that's why this crazy-ass painting by William B. Hand is just the ticket. Hand does concept design work in New York, and his strange blend of monsters and robots (which you can see below) make his imaginary worlds feel sort of medieval high tech. More »
  • #conceptdesign

    Your Triceratops Has Arrived

    This device looks like a mechanical war chariot crossed with some kind of backflipped sexbot. Dubbed "Triceratops" by designer Kazuhiko Nakamura, this steampunk kaiju is just one of the artist's many fantastical creations. Check out his haunting citiscape, below, which he calls "Requiem for Industry." More »
  • #conceptdesign

    An Amazing Collection of "War of the Worlds" Book Covers

    One of the most widely-read science fiction novels across the globe, H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds has been in print continuously since the late nineteenth century. And it's had a lot of book covers: artistic, fancy, pulpy, and just plain strange. Now, over at Chez Zeus, there's a collection of over 100 (and growing) covers from the book that readers have sent in. You can browse them by date, artist, language, and image on the cover. By far my favorite collection of of the covers is grouped under the header "Huh?" See a few below. More »
  • #thejewelsofaptor

    Ian Miller's Geometrically-Exact Surrealism

    Welcome to The Jewels of Aptor, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's biweekly column on art and the fantastic. Ian Miller would've been cool even if he hadn't worked on Ralph Bakshi's underrated movie Cool World. The UK native has produced a distinctive body of SF artwork over the last thirty years, sometimes pulling collage and photography into his more traditional drawings. Not only did he create an amazing and iconic graphic novel of the brilliant New Wave writer M. John Harrison's The Luck of the Head, he also did covers for such classic magazines as New Worlds and Interzone. Edgy and surreal, Miller combines intelligent geometric exactness with a messy, fluid sense of what it means to be human. More »
  • #babylon5

    The Earliest Days of Babylon 5 in Pictures

    Here's an amazing image from the pre-history of 1990s political space opera Babylon 5, when the set for the space station's main corridor had first been built and the techs were testing out stage lighting in it. This just got posted by Mojo, a visual effects artist who works on Battlestar Galactica and used to work on B5. He says he has a lot more where these came from and will be posting them on his new blog. More »
  • #brendanmccarthy

    Forgotten Designs Show Potential Of Coneheads

  • #conceptdesign

    Kick Up Some Waves With This Flying Sea Pod

    Antigrav will give us flying cars, but more importantly it'll reinvent jetski technology. These seacraft hoverpods look sexier than those pod racers in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Plus you could zip up onto the beach and spray sand in the face of the jock who bullied you during high school. More »
  • #conceptdesign

    A Beautiful Sewer System

    When a conceptual artist imagines a futuristic sewer system, you'd expect something that would give Dr. Seuss nightmares. Not so in this glance down a sewer corridor from artist Ben Procter. It looks spartan, utilitarian, orderly, and just plain gorgeous. It's enough to make you want to dive underground and look for crawly aliens in toilet water. More »
  • #art

    A Utopian Future for the New Orleans Riverfront in 200 Years

    The brainfarm over at Sentient Developments calls our attention to the concept designs of Adam Benton, who has worked on Stargate among other things. Here you see a sumptuous illustration of a forested world dotted with space ports. When I imagine a Utopian future for New Orleans, this is what I see: a beautiful, clean Mississippi River edged with graceful, high-density housing and thick wetlands. If you want to see more of Benton's curvacious, festively-colored space ships, click on. More »