Liam Young is a designer, director and BAFTA-nominated producer working between design, fiction and futures. Described by the BBC as 'the man designing our futures', his films and speculative worlds are both extraordinary images of tomorrow and urgent examinations of environmental questions. As a worldbuilder he has worked on the series adaptation of GATTACA for Sony/Showtime and as visual consultant on the Golden Globe and BAFTA-nominated feature Swan Song for Apple. His own films have premiered with Channel 4, Tribeca, the New York Metropolitan Museum, the Royal Academy, Venice Biennale and the BBC. His sci-fi film Planet City premiered at Tribeca in 2022 and his TED talk has been watched by almost 3 million viewers. His work is held in collections including MoMA NY, the Smithsonian, the V&A, MAXXI Rome and the Art Institute of Chicago. He runs the Masters in Fiction and Entertainment at SCI Arc, Los Angeles, and has consulted for Nike, BMW, Google, NASA JPL and many others.
