Verify Out Dr. Woo And Mikey Ojeda’s Customized LiveWire ONE Venture

Whereas it’s true that LiveWire has a sure imaginative and prescient of the longer term, it needs to impress extra than simply bikes. Take CURRENT, its design co-op, which is clearly supposed to impress imaginations with its interdisciplinary creations. Artists from a wide range of fields got here collectively to craft the primary CURRENT venture, Dr. Woo’s customized LiveWire One, which he calls Silent Dancer. 

Tattoo artist Dr. Woo got here along with Mikey Ojeda of Bleach Design Werks, in addition to SMCO, GoodArt Hlywd, Race Service, and Bcomp to breathe life into this venture. Race Service is the place the LiveWire CURRENT residency is predicated, and the place Ojeda coordinated the opposite artists to carry Dr. Woo’s bike design to fruition. (On the similar time, Woo and Ojeda concurrently got here up with the capsule streetwear assortment that’s being given away on the LiveWire web site on the time of writing.) 

The design course of is chronicled in a YouTube video collection on LiveWire’s channel, which supplies an outline of the preliminary design, numerous steps alongside the way in which, and in addition the finished venture. As with every good venture, the actually cool elements are within the particulars—reminiscent of Bcomp’s Amplitex materials, which it used to craft customized bodywork for the LiveWire. As an alternative of utilizing boring previous carbon fiber, they used a brand new materials product of flax fiber—which they are saying is much less soiled and is extra sustainable, however affords some wonderful visible enchantment. 

Over at GoodArt Hlywd, a number of sterling silver element items have been hand-crafted utilizing what they name a subtractive means of any a part of the silver block that doesn’t belong to the completed form they’ll visualize of their thoughts’s eye. You’ll hear sculpters in a number of media discuss subtractive processes so much, and the significance of visualizing your completed object earlier than you begin engaged on bringing it forth out of your media. It doesn’t matter if nobody else can see it at first; so long as the artist can see it and might stroll themselves by means of the steps to carry it out, then quickly sufficient, everybody else will see it, too. 

In the long run, all of the items come collectively from the varied artists concerned in bringing Dr. Woo’s imaginative and prescient to life, and the completed bike is what you see on this video. What do you suppose?