Just read the report at Hemmings Motor News. Mead (who worked on the V'ger images in TMP) came out of car design originally.
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/12/30/syd-mead-futurist-dies-at-86/
https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/12/30/syd-mead-futurist-dies-at-86/