Atmos Exterior Color Development

Lightship RV

2026

Company

Lightship RV

Headquarters

South San Franscisco

Industry

RV

Role

Lead Exterior CMF Designer

Duration

2025-2026

Lightship set out to establish a distinctive exterior color palette that reflects the brand's modern, electric vision while feeling equally at home in both natural landscapes and urban environments. The project focused on developing three production-ready colors that balanced aesthetics, durability, and manufacturing requirements, creating a cohesive visual identity for the vehicle lineup.

Design Team

Jessica Pastor (CMF Design Director), Eric Fields (Director of Industrial Design), Matt Braun (Industrial Designer), and Dom Daley (3D Lead)

Responsibilities
Created Proprietary Exterior Colors
Led Paint Development & Production Approval
Established Color Standards
Defined Production CMF Specifications
Current Lightship Color Family

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Theme Research

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Theme Selection
Nature for wellness

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Nature offers us different kinds of wisdom, revealed in textures, colors, and quiet moments. Each shade in this collection draws from a distinct facet of the natural world, yet together they tell a unified story of resilience, renewal, and grounding.

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Shade Moss invites us to slow down and look closer. It thrives quietly among branches, resilient and enduring, only revealing its beauty to those who take the time to notice. It reminds us that strength often hides in subtle places, discovered through stillness and attention.

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Snowline opens the world with clarity and calm. Like a blanket of fresh snow, it refreshes the senses, offering a moment of pause and possibility. In its openness, we are reminded of the space to breathe, reset, and begin again.

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Granite Braun draws us back to the earth. The fertile soil, the richness of stone, the strength that holds us steady. It speaks of nourishment and endurance, grounding us in stability in a world that often feels unsteady.

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Together, these colors create a balance of perspectives: looking up into the canopy, outward across the horizon, and down to the foundation beneath us. Each carries the spirit of nature; resilience, renewal, and stability, guiding us toward a deeper connection with the world that sustains us.

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Ideation

Digital Iterations

Physical Insperation

Color Sketches

Color Formulation Iteriations

Final Selected Colors

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Outcome

The final color palette translated Lightship's brand vision into three distinct and recognizable exterior colors. Through iterative color development and close collaboration with paint suppliers, we refined each color to balance the character of the vehicle with the realities of exterior paint, durability, and manufacturing. The resulting palette established a cohesive visual identity for Lightship while bringing the brand from concept into production.

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Projects at Lightship RV

Atmos Exterior Color Development

Atmos Exterior Color Development

Electric RV Exterior Color Development