Future retro space

As part of my 'What is Good' brief (see my design practice blog) I started looking at graphics from the 50's and 60's that captured the optimism of future space travel. Well I'm glad to say I have found loads more and i'm clearly not the only one who sees something of interest in these.

This is an artists rendering of the L5 Society , a fantastic and outlandish vision of future colonies in space, the society membership topped 10,000 at its peak. More images at: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/11/travel-distant-worlds.html

This image from another page on www.darkroastedblend.com This time old Russian and german visions from the rocket age, for more click here

Finally, click for another great link. Collier's magazine ran a series of articles in the early 50's looking at future space travel from scientific viewpoint, although these look fantastical today, they were a serious vision and apparently had quite an influence on people at the time.

Also, Collier's logo is done in a lovely typeface, if anyone knows what that is please tell me.