Hyundai Material Matters: A Visual Strategy for Eco-Conscious Brand Identity

Air Pocket is an innovative material engineered to purify our air within our vehicles. Grounded in hands-on research and automotive future-forecasting, this project demonstrates how vehicles can evolve into carbon-absorbing entities, highlighting the endless possibilities of nature.

Role

Design Researcher

Time Frame

8 Weeks– June-August 2023

Team

A collaboration with Hyundai Motor Group CMF Designer– Jiyeon Lee

Skills

Market and Brand Analysis, Figma, Parametric 3D Prototyping (Fusion 360, Rhino, Prusa)

Hyundai Material Matters: A Visual Strategy for Eco-Conscious Brand Identity

Air Pocket is an innovative material engineered to purify our air within our vehicles. Grounded in hands-on research and automotive future-forecasting, this project demonstrates how vehicles can evolve into carbon-absorbing entities, highlighting the endless possibilities of nature.

Role

Design Researcher

Time Frame

8 Weeks– June-August 2023

Team

A collaboration with Hyundai Motor Group CMF Designer– Jiyeon Lee

Skills

Market and Brand Analysis, Figma, Parametric 3D Prototyping (Fusion 360, Rhino, Prusa)

Customer Type

Consumers are increasingly demanding environmentally responsible products in luxury cars.

I set out to explore how a car brand could leverage renewable materials not just for environmental impact, but as a core element of marketing, identity, and consumer loyalty.

  • Image Credit: Kia

  • Image Credit: Kia

  • Image Credit: Volvo

  • Image Credit: Volvo

  • Image Credit: Volvo

  • Image Credit: Volvo

  • Image Credit: Lexus

  • Image Credit: Lexus

Project Objective

How might we reposition automotive design to align with evolving consumer values around sustainability, while elevating brand identity through innovative material storytelling?

Step 1

Learning from nature

By looking closer at how nature works, we researched how macro and microalgae are built to absorb CO2 efficiently and effortlessly.

Step 2

Applying it in context

How might we apply algae's lifecycle and environment within our context- hydrogen-fuel-cell-future-vehicle?

Step 3

Learning from Nature

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Prioritized materials that feel sustainable and premium to meet the rising expectations of EV consumers.

Testing Concept Viability-

We conducted research, discussing our concept with MIT and Northeastern biodesign professors, and hands-on experimentation on different living environments of micro-algae.

Can algae be the answer to the problem of filtrating air? Algae is 50% of the world's oxygen producers. 1 cubic meter of microalgae absorbs as much carbon dioxide as 100 sq meter Maple forest.

Air Pocket is essentially a beautiful, easily-regulated-system of algae vessels. Air Pocket can be imagined in any location with a regulated environment and exposure to sunlight.
This model shows the partially-working-prototype of Air Pocket near a window.
Can algae be the answer to the problem of filtrating air? Algae is 50% of the world's oxygen producers. 1 cubic meter of microalgae absorbs as much carbon dioxide as 100 sq meter Maple forest.

Air Pocket is essentially a beautiful, easily-regulated-system of algae vessels.

Can algae be the answer to the problem of filtrating air? Algae is 50% of the world's oxygen producers. 1 cubic meter of microalgae absorbs as much carbon dioxide as 100 sq meter Maple forest.

Air Pocket is essentially a beautiful, easily-regulated-system of algae vessels

Air Pocket can be imagined in any location with a regulated environment and exposure to sunlight.
This model shows the partially-working-prototype of Air Pocket near a window.
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