Mead's transportation work for Blade Runner wasn't production design in the conventional sense — he was inventing the physics. Coining the aerodyne, engineering fictional propulsion logic, building a visual technology that had no precedent. The way surfaces stack rather than flow, how stance communicates purpose before any detail does — that vocabulary was entirely his own construction. Glider was built from that understanding. Not replication, but a studied conversation with those original principles. The roofline silhouette and chassis stance are drawn directly from his transportation system language, while the cutaway construction and panel geometry reflect a more contemporary Product Design sensibility. Exposed drive assemblies, layered horizontal surfacing, coachwork that functions as civic object rather than personal vehicle. My drafting and spatial construction have moved on considerably since this piece. The cutaway integration in my current work is more resolved, the technical language tighter. But that progress exists because of studies like this one.
