MALAYSIA’S FIRST DESIGNER TURNED SPORT CAR CREATOR CALLED SCIRZ METACAR ON BLOCKCHAIN -GORDON YONG
By M.Gen
“Passion for sportcar design now made possible with NFT, Metaverse’s first concept sportcar brand SCIRZ METACAR is bornt.”
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In August 2021, Ferrari announced that the Ferrari 296 GTB was the first real-life, drivable car in Fortnite. Making history as the game’s first highly realistic, real-world vehicle is a huge achievement for Ferrari, but it’s also part of a bigger, even more fascinating story.
Digital replicas of the 296 GTB are to be found in multiple places across the Ferrari universe. There’s a version of it coming up in the new 296 GTB car configurator, due to be released next month, which will be used to delight fans and customers.
There are versions of it on the Ferrari website. And in a melding of the digital and physical worlds, the real-life car was recently set against otherworldly digital backdrops for a virtual production shoot.
Digital clones of the real world — from cars to buildings and beyond — will be the foundation on which the Metaverse is built, and the ability to create CG assets that work seamlessly in multiple digital contexts will become essential in this new world.
“SCIRZ will be a brand created for Metaverse on Metaverse, rather than in the real world” said Gordon, and with NFT, he intend to build a community of sportcar lovers who yet able to afford a real car but enjoy the feel of owning one. Also, a wonderful Christmas present for someone you love!
The Roadmap of SCIRZ will have exciting collection of images of hundreds of concept models with options of colours, bodykits and rims etc, just like the real car. Merch of selected models will be made available in stages for collectors. Final stage of the development will be “drivable” (currently only wearble) NFT model in the popular metaverses in the future.
Gordon kickstarted his early career with an internship at PROTON Holdings Berhad, an automotive company, where he was able to establish a strong core foundation in automotive sketching, rendering and modeling.
Gordon has a strong head for design strategy and design language development from his experiences at Orcadesign Consultancy, the largest industrial design studio in Malaysia. With his automotive background coupled with the ability to transfer customer requirements into soundly branded and meaningful products and interiors, Gordon constantly provide solutions that exceeds client expectations.
With 16 years of design experience of working with broad range of clients from consumer electronics, healthcare, mobility, government fuels his curiosity about how systems work and has trained him in the understanding of what it takes to deliver elegant, innovative solutions to complex problems.
His notable works includes Hewlett Packard’s printer design language development, Toshiba’s kitchen appliance, Initial Rentokil’s product design language development, and Innergie’s product branding and design language development.
As a Principal Designer, Gordon is responsible in leading and pushing the design team to create cost-effective objects of desire and creating compelling 360 degree stories to support them. This includes creative direction, product innovation, conceptual and production design development to manufacturing. In addition to his appointment, he oversees and leads China clienteles’ project like Haier, Midea, Freshtech, Lenovo and Trane.
List of awards won: Between 2010- present;
2010
IF Design Award — Innergie mCube Slim, mCube Lite Universal Adapter and
mCube Mini World’s Smallest Auto/Air Adapter
2011
Red Dot Design Award — mCube Slim 95 Universal Adapter
CES Design & Engineering Showcase Honors — mCube Slim 95 Universal
Adapter
Universal Design — Consumer Favorite — mCube Slim 95 Universal Adapter
2013
President Design Award Singapore — Initial Signature Range
2014
Red Dot Design Award — Initial Signature Range
2015
Japan Good Design Award — Infinity Square Breathalyzer
SG Mark Singapore Good Design Gold Award — Infinity Square Breathalyzer
SG Mark Singapore Good Design Award — Welch Allyn OAE Hearing Screener
SG Mark Singapore Good Design Award — Structo 3D Printer
HONORS & AWARDS
2016
German Design Award — Qlipp Sports Sensor
SG Mark Singapore Good Design — Aggregation Gateway Box
2018
SG Mark Singapore Good Design — Cleantools Trolley and Mop System
2019
SG Mark Singapore Good Design — Digisafe DCM10 Encrypted Hard disk
Merlion Awards 2 Gold 1 Silver
Gold — Certis Concierge Robot & Certis Surveillance Robot
Silver — FIGS VMS Kiosk
2020
SG Mark Singapore Good Design Award — Certis Concierge Robot
SG Mark Singapore Good Design Award — Certis Surveillance Robot
SG Mark Singapore Good Design Award — FIGS VMS Kiosk
SG Mark Singapore Good Design Award — Smart Lamp Post
Golden Pin Design Award — Smart Lamp Post
