The installation was created by RCA students Ewan Gallimore and Claire Miller in association with Jaguar’s Advance Design team in Whitley, Coventry. Students at the RCA were challenged by Jaguar, which is the primary sponsor for this year’s event, to create a joint exterior and interior form study which “expresses their vision of future Jaguar design language in either a sports or luxury context.”
Rendered in what appears to be bronze-painted fiberglass, the installation resembles a vehicle lifted straight out of sci-fi movies. The vehicle has been designed by stripping away the engineering and leaving behind only the lines and form, like a sort of ghost. It was made using various technologies and facilities employed in the creation of Jaguar concept cars and production designs.
“We began the project by looking at light, specifically the way the light falls within the space at Clerkenwell. We thought about how our form could accentuate this light and convey volume through its use of materials and our knowledge of how these materials react with one another,” said Gallimore and Miller.
They went on to say that, “Our form relates to the Jaguar brand through its sculptural volumes, bespoke materials and visual lightness. These elements helped us to create a sculpture that aimed to display a seamless transition between interior and exterior space.”
Gallimore and Miller won the Jagaur Advanced Design competition against eight teams. Teams comprised of students from both vehicle design and textile design backgrounds who were asked to consider the proportions, surfacing, line interactions and aesthetic beauty when expressing their vision of Jaguar’s future design language.
