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1950s Space Art

August 27th 2008 23:57
1950s house of the future poster art

I found this terrific link on BoingBoing, a gallery of sci-fi art from the 1950s.

It's called Plan59, and you can order any of their images as prints.

The 50s were a time of nuclear fears and hopes. Coming out of the war mentality, it seemed only natural that humans would go into space with slick, silvery spaceships. We thought that scientists were the ones that would take us by the hand into the space age.

Writers were singing the praise of the space-age, with endless volumes of sci-fi novels coming out every month.

It was also, more importantly, a time before computer graphics, which meant that visionaries had to store their imaginations in the forms of drawings, sketches and paintings. Magazines and books used gorgeous colour paintings for their images, and they captured such energy!

I love flipping through old sci-fi books at garage sales - the pulp novels still had some gorgeous cover art, and would be enough to send my childhood mind into full stereo daydreams, imagining green-skinned aliens and spacewomen in tight, form-fitting spacesuits.

See the Plan59 Gallery!
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Comment by Cheryl J

August 29th 2008 14:30


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I love these! What a great collection. I love hoe everyone in the above picture loo like super cool Jetsons. And why don't we all dress that way? Tres chic!

Comment by Cibbuano

August 30th 2008 04:57


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cheryl, you said it - sometimes the illustrated predictions of 2008 look a lot cooler than our real world..

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