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World's First AI-Designed Cycling Helmet
Selected work
G42 × UAE Team Emirates XRG (with MET Helmets)

World's First AI-Designed Cycling Helmet

A race-day livery designed entirely with generative AI, debuted at the Tour de France.

AI · DESIGN · CREATIVE DIRECTION
Client
G42 × UAE Team Emirates XRG (with MET Helmets)
Year
2025
Role
Creative Direction · Design · AI
Discipline
Brand × AI
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Overview

The world's first AI-designed race helmet

The first race-day cycling livery in the sport's history designed entirely with generative AI. Commissioned by G42 with UAE Team Emirates XRG, in production with MET.

The approach

Lock a visual language of fluid forms, motion-blur and spray, with the team's brand colours as anchor points the AI could not drift from, then translate a flat AI piece onto a curved aero shell so it reads at race speed from every angle.

Discipline
Brand × AI · Creative Direction · Design
Role
Creative Direction, client side (with MET Helmets)
Debut
Tour de France, Stage 3, 8 July 2025
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On the rider

Built to read at race speed

On the shell and on the riders who wore it, the livery had to hold from every angle a camera or the wind might catch.

On set with the rider
Rider portrait
The helmet
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The artwork

Designed entirely with generative AI

The master livery and its concept origin: the AI-generated artwork the whole design was built from.

Master livery design
Concept origin
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The film

The livery, in motion

A promotional film for the AI-designed livery, made with UAE Team Emirates XRG, the world champions, and raced at the Tour de France. Creative direction, bringing the design to life in motion.

Hero film
Cutdown
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In the wild

Picked up across the press

From Fast Company Middle East to Gulf News, Khaleej Times and Arab News, as it read on phones.

Press hit
Press hit
Press hit
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Outcome

A first in pro cycling

Raced at Stage 3 of the Tour de France, 8 July 2025. International press across Fast Company Middle East, Gulf News, Khaleej Times, Cairo Scene and Arab News.

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