Designer, illustrator, and artist Syd Mead announced on his website and through a video on the Fireball Publishing blog on Wednesday that he is retiring.
He also worked on a proposed live-action Gundam film from Lionsgate in the 1980s that never moved forward.
Mead was born in Minnesota in 1933, and is most famously known as a neofuturist conceptual artist and an industrial designer.
In 1983, Mead started working with Japanese corporate clients, including Bandai, Sony, Dentsu, Minolta, NHK, Honda, and more.