About Things to Come (1936)
Things to Come (1936), produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies, imagined the year 2036 as Everytown — a gleaming Art Moderne city built underground from white plaster, Plexiglas, Lucite, and glass.
On black-and-white film these materials read as a luminous silver-grey: severe, spacious, inornate. The closing sequence was praised as "an art deco poem in gleaming silver and grey," and this design system distills that clean, streamlined, utopian luminosity.
- Origin
- Western Europe (British production, London Films)
- Era
- 1936 (a 1936 vision of the year 2036)
- Key figures
- Alexander Korda · William Cameron Menzies · Vincent Korda
- Movements
- Art Moderne / Streamline Moderne · Modernist utopian futurism
Things to Come (1936) design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
Poiret OneHeadings
Josefin SansBody
RalewayMono
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