Lexus asked SCPS to lay LED strips on their latest car model so that they could program light color and brightness responding to music and to make an interactive light effect from a X-BOX gaming center on the car dashboard.

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As a designer, I was tasked to use Rhino to lay the 5mm LED strip on the cars for our fabrication team, electrical team and the agency technicians. Figuring out a way to keep led strip in a grid on a curve surface was a challenge. I divided the car into multiple sections including front bumper, hood, roof, trunk, back bumper, sides and front and back doors sections. I developed a multiple designs in Rhino to project the dots on the surface, then find out the best design for LED placement. There was a total of 41,999 LEDs.

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I provided our fabrication team with the design of LED map for the car and I also helped the electric team to mark out wire locations.

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After the digital design work, I joined the fabrication team on illuminating the grill and making a light through logo. For the grill, I designed and made a plywood structure covered with LED strips at the front, and a layer of milk acrylic to defuse the light. I 3D print the Lexus logo, then made a mold and cast with clear resin, sprayed a frosted layer of clear paint and then added LED strips behind the casting piece.

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The car rocks and shines!

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