The New Metropolis - Mercury Downfall (2022)
The New Metropolis - Mercury Downfall (2022)
The New Metropolis - Mercury Downfall (2022)
The New Metropolis - The Line Never Tires, Never Stops (2022)
The New Metropolis - The Line Never Tires, Never Stops (2022)
The New Metropolis - The Line Never Tires, Never Stops (2022)
The New Metropolis - Only 60 Seconds (2022)
The New Metropolis - Only 60 Seconds (2022)
The New Metropolis - Only 60 Seconds (2022)
The New Metropolis - Of Fire, Of Steel, Of Desperation (2022)
The New Metropolis - Of Fire, Of Steel, Of Desperation (2022)
The New Metropolis - Of Fire, Of Steel, Of Desperation (2022)
The New Metropolis - Art Is Dead (2022)
The New Metropolis - Art Is Dead (2022)
The New Metropolis - Art Is Dead (2022)
The New Metropolis - A New Hope Rises (2022)
The New Metropolis - A New Hope Rises (2022)
The New Metropolis - A New Hope Rises (2022)

The New Metropolis

Series started 2022, Jonas Stoltz

In 1927, Fritz Lang brought to film a stylized futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia exists above a bleak underworld populated by mistreated workers. As one of my favorite films, I used this as inspiration for this design series, focusing on complex machinery, hints of avant-garde architecture and a subtle teal-orange color palette.

Is our future heading in this direction? Will we become expendable labor to satiate the appetites of a controlling elite? Will we be humans?

This collection showcases six images from a collection of over thirty completed designs. The complete collection will be available for galleries and events as 24×36 inch canvas prints.

As is my policy, there will be no NFTs of these images. Ever.

Programs Used: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Fresco and BlackInk
With additional AI assistance: Personally modified GAN Network and NightCafe Studio

The original images have been protected through Adobe Content Credentials and a personally developed watermarking technique for image identification.

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