Myth in
Motion

Motion has a way of making everything beautiful... speed blurs and streaks until the world looks almost like a painting.

Great vehicle design evokes that same feeling even while standing still. Within Prof. Rafael Corazza's Myth in Motion class - a cross-disciplinary collaborative project designing the bike of the not-too-distant future — I set out to design an electric sportbike that embodies this idea.

What makes motorcycles so compelling is how they wear their heart on display: exposed frames, visible structure, and mechanical honesty. That led me to question how an electric bike could recapture the feeling of rider wrapped around a living machine.

The electric powertrain strips away the traditional visual drama of an engine. Without exhaust, pistons, or a fuel tank, the bike risks feeling anonymous. The design challenge was to create a new kind of presence- one that is unmistakably alive.

This was my first time using digital sketching in Adobe Photoshop with a Wacom pen. The iterative process it enabled created less expectation to get things right the first time, allowing for more creative line treatments and design variations to be easily explored. Working digitally let me explore forms rapidly - a sketch could be revised in seconds rather than redrawn from scratch.

The hero render in the final poster, as well as the wheels on the final digital sketches, were created using Vizcom. The AI-assisted rendering allowed me to quickly visualise lighting and material in ways that would have taken hours conventionally, keeping the focus on form decisions rather than production time.