What must a bike look like? - Yanko Design

If you lot really think nigh it, what must a bike really look like? Why must its shape be in a particular style, with a separate fuel-tank, a split up seat, a separate headlight. What happens when y'all blueprint a bike without taking any previously seen bike equally a reference? You go something that looks similar Samuel Aguiar's concept wheel titled Hope.

Four years in the making, starting from concept sketches to 3D models, Samuel who goes by the name Shiny Hammer 'Once the volume was defined, I had to observe a squeamish melody between the seat, the lights, the dashboard and all the other elements.' explains Samuel, 'it was of import for me to stay very 'ergonomic' to make the design usable. This is where you lot decide whether to continue your idea as a sculptural state, or to bring it to a functional state.' This approach leads to ane truly understanding what a cycle should naturally look like… even if that means it should look admittedly un-bicycle-ly.

The Hope takes the task of modifying a Vectrix VX-1 a Polish fabricated maxi-scooter which was the globe's first commercially available high-performance electric scooter. A practicing Transportation and Article of furniture Designer, Samuel wanted to make a "design that you would want to hug," he explains, "without any aggressive shapes. Like a alloy betwixt a pre-A Porsche 356, an iPhone and a Pokémon." The result is something that's iconic and maintains a futuristic appeal without the assailment. Samuel made the scooter'due south terminal shape out of fiberglass earlier laying aluminum plates across the middle and painting the front and dorsum blackness to assist brand the form look less heavy. When you sit on the bike, yous realize that it was designed as a whole, and each element wasn't treated every bit a separate design challenge. The style the seat blends into the form of the scooter and the way the dashboard (using the stock Vectrix gauges) is laid out, it looks beautifully linear and integrated, with not a single element breaking the volume or looking out of place… from headlight to taillight!

Designer: Samuel Aguiar (Shiny Hammer)