In 2016, this was a post-graduation side project. A simple design exercise: take the intake ducts and bodywork of fighter aircraft, and translate them into the silhouette of a competitive sport motorcycle. There was no client. There was no production path. It was an aesthetic test.
Five years later, in a hiring interview at ARMASPEED, the lead designer paused on this page of the portfolio. He said the design itself mattered less than what it showed: that a designer could carry an aerodynamic vocabulary from one product category to another. Three weeks later, I was working on aero kits for sport cars.