THE ATLAS OF TOMORROW ✦ WING 05 OF 06
The Illustrators
Every vision of the future started as somebody’s drawing. This wing honors the hands: Robida sketching video calls in the 1880s, Schridde selling televisions with floating houses, and the contemporary artists keeping the daydream lit.
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IN THIS WING
FEATURE 01
The Future as Imagined in the 1950s, Schridde’s Iconic Illustrations
Schridde’s Motorola ads put hi-fis in glass houses cantilevered over waterfalls. He was selling televisions. He delivered a whole civilization.
FEATURE 02
Albert Robida, The Visionary Illustrator Who Sketched the Future in the 1800s
In the 1880s Robida drew video calls, air taxis, and takeout delivered by tube. He predicted the year 2000 with unnerving accuracy and better hats.
FEATURE 03
Striking, Stylized Visions of the Future by Matthew Lyons
Sun-faded palettes and geometric serenity. Lyons paints stills from films that do not exist yet, somewhere between analog past and radiant future.
FEATURE 04
Psychedelic Afrofuturism by Manzel Bowman
Tribal attire, Egyptian iconography, and space-age geometry collide in Bowman’s electric digital collage.
FEATURE 05
Retro Futuristic Utopia Illustrations by Orkhan Isayev
Isayev’s cities blend Art Deco bones with hovering traffic, a utopia that feels one wrong turn away from our own downtown.
FEATURE 06
The Bold, Colorful, and Mysterious Afro-Futurism of Kaylan Michel
Michel’s collages fold ancestry and science fiction into portraits that glow from the inside.
FEATURE 07
Marvel at These Fabulous Retro-Futurism Illustrations
A grand tour of science fiction art from decades past: lunar gyroscopes, chrome cities, and rocketports at dusk.
Keep Exploring the Atlas
Or wander the complete collection in the Archive, meet the full roster in the Pioneering Artists directory, or trace the century-long story in Moss & Fog’s Retrofuturism guide.
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