Graphic Design

Kodo Drive

Japanese sports cars are my favourite cars, so when the brief was to design a brand, logo and poster from scratch, I went personal. I built a Japanese sports car membership club, where you take out a car the way you'd loan one for the day. That gave me the freedom to put just one car on each poster. No dates. No busy spreads with multiple cars. One car, one frame. The palette came from a photo of a Japanese castle: cream from the brick walls, red from the trees around it, with grey and black for contrast. Three cars in the series: the Mazda RX-7, the Nissan R-34 Skyline, and the Mazda MX-5. The three I'd pick.

Discipline
Poster · Illustration
Series
Mazda RX-7 · Nissan R-34 · Mazda MX-5
Year
2025 - 2026
Kodo Drive — Mazda RX-7 1995 poster
Mazda RX-7 · 1995
Kodo Drive — Nissan R-34 1999 poster
Nissan R-34 · 1999
Kodo Drive — Mazda MX-5 1998 poster
Mazda MX-5 · 1998

Final brand pieces

Kodo Drive — posters wall
Kodo Drive — flyer 1
Kodo Drive — flyer 2
Kodo Drive — lanyard

Creation of car assets · 2025 — 2026

Kodo Drive — logo process 1

Logo design process · 2025 — 2026

Kodo Drive — logo process 1 Kodo Drive — logo process 2 Kodo Drive — logo process 3 Kodo Drive — logo process 4