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Fan Made Mega Man 200X Industrial Catalog is Impressive

May 28, 2010 // jgonzo

This fan made Mega Man industrial catalog is an impressive feat! Artist Logan Zowacki has created and collected “cyanotype prints of Mega Man blueprints, completely bound in a format similar to what you’d find in an industrial catalog listing all the characters as if they were for sale.” You’ll find Mega Man and several other robot masters (yes they are accurate even with their model numbers) in here!

His mission statement?

My series pays homage to Mega Man by creating blueprints inspired by the characters from the video game franchise and displaying them in the same vernacular as a common product catalog. Each character reflects the current trend in the world’s economy that employees are expendable and machines are expected to be multifunctional. The inclusion of statistics and facts with each character further enhances the propaganda-filled experience with a clearly Pro-cyborg agenda. The main goal of my series is to make people think about the current state of the economy as well as the future state of industry. If companies begin experimenting with mechanical enhancements on people, will they then own those people as an investment? Can they sell and control these mechanized people like products? At what point does an employee become a machine? Or are all my references to man-machines simply metaphors for the way we’re already treated, due in large part to the current state of our economy?

Whoa. You never expected that out of a fan made project, did you?

At any rate, it’s an awesome Mega Man project with an eye for political discourse and environmental awareness…when ELSE will I be able to say something like that?