Intricate Drawings of Futuristic Cityscapes

By Tom Hawking

November 27, 2012

Quite what our urban spaces will look like in the future is a source of constant speculation — will we be living in post-apocalyptic dystopias, beautiful space colonies or some sort of weird virtual spaces that bear only the most tangential relation to the real world? The idea of Pixel City II — a series of illustrations by Austrian artist Atelier Olschinsky — takes the idea of a virtual cityscape and runs with it, depicting fascinatingly intricate cities that could occupy a virtual landscape, a tangible one, or both.We spotted Olschinsky’s work via The Audacity of Swope, and found it thoroughly fascinating — it’s like Invisible Cities translated into some unknowable future and then rendered back onto paper for us to marvel at today. We went ahead and found the rest of the series — along with accompanying details — at the Creators Project, and there’s heaps more of Olschinsky’s work at his website.