Desperados interactive traffic light units lit up

Electronics and remote inside a traffic light unit

Concept sketch of the back-to-back units

Concept sketch of the traffic light and remote

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Desperados

Interactive traffic lights

Two back-to-back units for the launch of Desperados’ new PICO bottles. The brief was an interactive traffic light that lets the user select the colour on demand — so I took an off-the-shelf traffic light and hooked it up to my own software and LED rings.

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Output — 3× units (v1), 6× units (v2) · Manchester

Build

Off-the-shelf traffic light, custom LED rings and my own control software.

The challenge

Matching the splattered graphics around the corners when setting up the artwork.

Next — Pulze→