"The World of Tomorrow" was the theme for the 1939 World's Fair, and served as a beacon of hope in a dark time. Coming out of the Depression, and seeing the dark clouds looming on the political landscape in Europe, the Fair offered a different vision of the future; one of hope and progress, built on the back of technology.



The "futuristic" sci-fi artwork of the following decades continued this trend of boundless optimism, promising glowing urban cityscapes with elevated roads, flying cars and zeppelins mooring atop skyscrapers.



This contest seemed like the perfect chance to revive both the style and ideals of this period, and remind us that we really can accomplish anything.



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very nice.

i appreciate the time and thought behind this.

good job, man!!

I love 30/40s style! Futuristic, but retro. I'd certainly buy this!

Nice one. Something I had thought about doing, but I'm glad I didn't. It would not have been close to the style of this. I'll stick to drawing funnies and leave the retro class to you. Good luck man. $5 from me.

very nice....... batman power

Definately picking up on the allusion to the World's Fair theme in this. I wish I could see some more of the car and some more Art Deco "speed line" shit going on for trim on the car, but other then that, it's very good.



$5

awesome design. nice detail, look, and color.

really good

hell its great

agree with GretchinF

I dig it!!!

beautiful.

I love this.

i like that early 1900's idea of the future



it looks great



5

Batman, you've just rescued me. 5 +buy

i think this is the only one that followed the guidelines totally... u get the 5 and the buy brotha!

thanks for actually putting thought into your design 5

oh wow, that is excellent. i love the dark and mysterious mood - it kind of reminds me of the old Batman comics. beautifully done. definitely a 5$.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow... maybe if it didn't say the World of Tomorrow on it I'd buy it.

really kool

wow that's just gorgeous...i love this style...30s redux is brilliant...nice work

the illustration, color and type is nice...

sadly the typography needs more work,

the typography kinda reminds me of those gift shirts from the statue of liberty ...



hope u can work more on the type arrangement, it'd surely enhance the design! u go dude!

Very nice. This design seems to apeal to everyone. The lines, shadows, shapes, transportaion, architcure, familar images we already love in a new configruation, love the blue...its just great! Hope this gets printed.

Beautiful. I really hope that this gets printed, as I'd buy it. $5

This would be a great shirt even without the WIRED theme.

I really like it... I've always been a sucker for the retrofuture look.

This definitely should be in the top of the contest entries.

I wish the image took up more space on the shirt......the image is great but it gets dwarfed by the empty space

I will buy if this is made!



Love the 30's look...

Oooh, gorgeous! A really strong image. Hope this actually gets sold!

Great design, style and colors...

Great design, but I wouldn't place the design in the center of the t-shirt.

Still 5

Well, today's the last day of scoring for this one, and I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for all of the positive comments and critiques.



This has been a great competition with some incredible entries. I know I had lots of fun working on this design, and would of course LOVE to see it printed. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

i swear i've seen that picture before.

You have certainly seen images LIKE this before, as it is based heavily on the style of the advertisements and travel posters of the 30's and 40's. But you haven't seen THIS image before unless you were looking over my shoulder as I created it. (And I hope you weren't... that would be creepy.)