Dieselpunk + Steampunk Culture
Hugh Ferriss' Art Revisited
Ask me to name the precursors of Dieselpunk and Hugh Ferriss will be one of the first names on my list.
There's already an article about this genius delineator, accompanied by a small album. Now Paul Malon's excellent Flickr photostream brings us more high-quality scans of Ferriss' graphic artwork.
Skycraper Hangar in a Metropolis
Skyscrapers Spanning Streets
The Metropolis of Tomorrow, 1929
Canyons Of Commerce, 1929
Chanin Building, 1929
The Chicago Board of Trade
The Master Building
Empire State Building, 1931
Chrysler Building, 1930
To serve a pleasant reminder: the largest Ferriss online gallery (341 images from Avery collection) is here. Once copy-protected, it's now public and download-enabled.
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Comment by Larry on April 6, 2011 at 9:19pm -
Each one of these is absolutely beautiful. Not only the design, which is wonderful, but the drawings are real works of pure Diesel art. To me, this artwork is the meaning of "Diesel" in Dieselpunk.
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Comment by Cameron Henry on April 6, 2011 at 11:02am -
Awesome! thank you.
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Comment by lord_k on April 6, 2011 at 10:17am
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Comment by Tome Wilson on April 6, 2011 at 9:03am -
People happened.
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Comment by Stefan on April 6, 2011 at 9:00am -
Mind blowing. Directors of "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" admitted they have been chiefly inspired by Ferris' work for the design of the city scapes in the movie.
Thank you, Lord K.
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Comment by Pilsner Panther on April 6, 2011 at 8:43am -
By now, we should all be living in an idealistic, near-perfect world that looks like this... what happened? That's only a rhetorical question, I can't answer it (disclaimer).
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