How the retro-futuristic world of ‘Hello Tomorrow!’ was brought to life

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Apple TV+ series, starring Billy Crudup as a slick huckster selling timeshares on the moon, is set in 1950s America — yet it’s an alternate-reality version of the decade that still feels familiar.“That was what we were going for,” series production designer Maya Sigel told The Post. “It’s anchored in the 1950s … where technology has advanced at a much faster pace than it did in our history.”In a wide-ranging interview, Sigel described how she and her team created some of the futuristic gadgets seen in “Hello Tomorrow” — and how these machines doff an authentic tip of the cap to the space-age Eisenhower Era.The minute I read the script I started doing a ton of research, and then my team came on and everybody started spitballing ideas.

With the research on the gadgets … I looked back from the 1920s to the late 1960s. The Art Deco era was wonderful with those industrial and product designs — everything looked streamlined and [as if it] could possibly fly.

That was very inspirational for our gadgets; they needed to have some weight to them but needed to have all curved lines and look like they could be aerodynamic.

I had a ton of catalogues from that era and books on advertisements in the ’50s and also old Sears catalogues and old decorating books and old car books people brought in.