Former Volkswagen designer Daniel Simon started his Hollywood career in 2008, working on the lightcycles for Tron: Legacy and the bubble-ship in Oblivion (left). But seeing his creations splashed across the screen wasn't enough. Simon's new coffee-table collection of renderings and drawings, The Timeless Racer, expands his visual sense into a series of sci-fi futures and alternate-reality pasts. (See insets for some of these traveler, and in one vision, Al-equipped cars race for 48 hours straight. "I set out to create the largest, most detailed racing world ever attempted," Simon says. "It's the Star Wars of motorsports." 1 Simon isn't the first industrial designer to get into science fiction. The great Syd Mead-who worked on Blade Runner and the original Tron-started out illustrating for Ford. Before Chesley Bonestell painted the backdrops for the 1953 War of the Worlds, he was an architect on the Golden Gate Bridge.
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