Vita
The grand touring philosophy applied to a scooter for people in their early 20s.
It's hard to find a scooter that is both practical and exciting to ride.
I chose excitement over practicality once, and always wondered why both could not co-exist.
Sketching, Vizcom iterations and refinement, then full development in Blender — the whole project inside a month.
The luggage is fully optional and removable — the scooter has to read well with the bags off.
In early 2023, I owned an Aprilia SR 150. I chose excitement over practicality and always wondered why both couldn't co-exist. When I asked around, I realized many people felt the same. That was the motivation behind this project.
Vita takes the grand touring philosophy — long distance capability without giving up the character of the machine — and applies it to a scooter aimed at people in their early 20s: students and first-job riders who need to carry things, ride every day, and still want something they enjoy looking at.
The process ran as a lot of sketching and Vizcom iterations, followed by refinement sketches and full development in Blender. Detail areas — the taillight, the rear, the headlight and the apron — were resolved as their own studies before the surfaces were locked.
Vita carries two large bags — one behind the rider, one on the footboard — and both attach and come off without tools. That constraint shaped the rear end: the scooter has to look finished with the bags on for a trip and equally deliberate with them off for the commute, rather than a machine missing a part.