100 Words - 2001: A Space Odyssey

The design of 2001: A Space Odyssey feels strange.

Not futuristic in the way we imagine now, but not outdated either. Somewhere in between. The sets, colours and tactile controls give it a physicality that modern design has almost lost.

It looks like the future imagined by humans before we handed control over.

There’s something slightly unsettling about it. As if everything has been designed perfectly, but not by us. Like we’ve stepped back and let something else take over. Not in a chaotic way, but in a calm, controlled one.

It doesn’t look like today.

But it feels closer than we think.