Images of Sci-Fi Artist Mike Trim Featured in New Book

In 1964, young Mike Trim answered a newspaper advertisement seeking model makers for a film production crew and embarked on an odyssey that would last for more than four decades. Beginning in the final days of "Stingray", Trim went to work as a model maker and designer for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's television series "Thunderbirds," "Captain Scarlet," "Joe 90," "The Secret Service" and "UFO" - as well as their feature films: "Thunderbirds Are GO," "Thunderbird 6" and "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun" (aka "Doppelganger").

Starting out in the model shop, Trim later became 

Special Effects Director Derek Meddings' assistant in designing the fabulous futuristic architecture, vehicles, and distinctive look of the Andersons' imaginative series. Eventually, he assumed responsibility for the majority of the design work for the series as Meddings (who won an Academy Award™ for his work on the 1978 film "Superman") became more involved in feature films.

Trim moved into freelance illustration, creating an iconic cover painting for one of the best-selling albums of all time, "Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds," in 1978.
"The Future Was FAB: The Art of Mike Trim" is an in-depth review of the artist's entire career as a sci-fi designer and illustrator. Featuring hundreds of full-color and black-and-white drawings, paintings, marker comps and photos, the book offers a one-of-a-kind, up-close-and-personal view of how the artist foretells the future at the end of a paintbrush. The illustrations are annotated by Trim via his anecdotes and insights as he worked with the Andersons, Meddings and the crew of Century 21 Films, as well as his experiences as a freelance artist and his account of how the instantly recognizable cover art for "The War of the Worlds" LP was created.
"The Future was FAB: The Art of Mike Trim" is a fitting tribute to an artist whose work has permeated the pop culture landscape for more than  forty years, and a meticulous archive of his seminal works in the field of sci-fi art and design.

"A book of Mike Trim's design work is a thing to be treasured." -- Richard Taylor Five-time Academy Award™ winner & Special Effects Director of Lord of the Rings, King Kong, Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World, and director of Weta Workshop.

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