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Hydrogen education / Competition system

Horizon
H2GP.

Competition identity, educational product communication and campaign design for hydrogen-powered student racing.

Role
Visual identity design · Campaign design · Product communication · Web design
Scope
Competition identity · Campaign concepts · Programme flyers · Product visualisation · Packaging communication · Website design · Early web-app concept
Exploded technical view separating the H2GP Sprint car chassis, wheels, motor, fuel-cell components and body parts.
Blue H2GP race-track graphic carrying the words Design, Race and Innovate beside a speeding Sprint car.
Design · Race · Innovate

01 / The brief

Make the science
move.

Horizon Hydrogen Grand Prix turns fuel-cell engineering into something students can build, test, measure and race.

The programme connects clean-energy education with the urgency of motorsport. Students make decisions about efficiency, reliability, speed and endurance, then see those decisions perform on a physical track. Its communication therefore has to do two jobs at once: explain a credible engineering curriculum and generate the excitement needed to bring teams, schools, partners and sponsors into the system.

The engagement with Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies and its educational H2GP programme covered competition identity, campaign concepts, product presentation, programme flyers and digital design. The communication approach brought the programme’s engineering content and competitive format into a consistent visual system.

Design highlights

Identity construction
An H2 sphere and pixelated chequered flag combine with a condensed, forward-leaning wordmark in light and dark lockups.
Product diagrams
An exploded Sprint-car composition separates the chassis, wheels, motor, fuel-cell components and body to explain the product’s assembly.
Campaign layouts
XPR and Sprint share a red campaign layout with large product imagery, direct headlines and supporting programme identifiers.

02 / Competition identity

Hydrogen,
at race pace.

The mark combines the scientific subject with the visual reflexes of racing.

A hydrogen-blue H2 sphere becomes a compact programme emblem. Chequered pixels break from its edge and connect the energy source to the finish line, while a condensed, forward-leaning Grand Prix wordmark supplies speed and competitive presence. The construction remains legible in institutional light environments and high-contrast race settings.

This dual register was essential. H2GP needed the authority to sit inside a school programme and the energy to command a public event. The identity does not choose between those contexts; it gives both of them the same point of origin.

H2 Grand Prix Series identity shown in light and dark lockups with an H2 sphere, chequered pixels and italic racing wordmark.
H2 Grand Prix Series / light and dark lockups

03 / Programme architecture

One route.
Three entry points.

The communication system had to make progression visible without flattening the character of each level. Every programme starts from hands-on discovery and adds engineering depth, performance pressure and team responsibility.

01 / Age 7+

XPR

Explore. Build. Discover.First principles, recycled materials and an accessible introduction to fuel-cell mobility.

02 / Age 10+

Sprint

Build. Tune. Race.A fast 1:20-scale platform for assembly, testing, gear ratios, chassis thinking and track data.

03 / Age 13+

Pro

Engineer. Endure. Compete.Advanced fuel-cell vehicles, race strategy, reliability and international endurance competition.
Horizon Educational programme flyer presenting the H2GP Sprint Car and Micro Grid learning systems.
Sprint Car and Micro Grid programme communication
Horizon Educational programme flyer presenting H2GP Pro and XPR hydrogen-powered vehicle programmes.
Pro and XPR programme communication

04 / Product communication

Show how
performance is built.

A classroom product becomes more valuable when its engineering is visible.

The exploded Sprint composition turns a finished car into a readable system of chassis, wheels, motor, fuel-cell components and body parts. The graphic helps the audience understand that speed is assembled from choices rather than delivered as a sealed toy.

Packaging, safety information and product imagery carry that logic into purchase, storage and classroom use. Regulatory marks and warnings remain precise; the visual presentation still communicates experimentation, motion and team ownership.

Exploded technical view separating the H2GP Sprint car chassis, wheels, motor, fuel-cell components and body parts.
Sprint car / exploded component system
H2GP Sprint classroom-pack safety and packaging panel with regulatory marks and a top view of the car.
Classroom-pack safety and packaging panel
Green retail box for the H2GP Sprint Car educational engineering kit.
Sprint Car product box

05 / Campaign

Give curiosity
something to build.

The Give the Gift of Innovation campaign reframes educational hardware as an invitation to act. A direct headline, saturated red field and oversized product image create retail immediacy, while the programme logos and supporting copy keep the proposition anchored in renewable energy, engineering and STEM learning.

XPR and Sprint share the same campaign architecture but retain different product stories: one foregrounds the exposed, handmade logic of the model; the other turns a roll of blue track into a graphic expression of speed and possibility.

Red Give the Gift of Innovation campaign flyer featuring the H2GP XPR model car.
Gift of Innovation / XPR
Red Give the Gift of Innovation campaign flyer featuring a blue roll of track and H2GP Sprint car.
Gift of Innovation / Sprint

06 / Competition environment

The classroom
opens onto the world.

H2GP's public value becomes clearest at the track. Teams arrive with vehicles they have built and refined together; technical choices become visible as lap time, endurance, reliability and repair; and an abstract clean-energy topic becomes a shared international event.

The identity and communication system needed to remain coherent at this larger scale—from a classroom package to race graphics, team apparel, sponsor visibility and the collective image of the competition itself.

07 / Digital extension

The next layer
is interactive.

Website design and an early web-app concept extended the engagement beyond static communication.

The digital remit addressed programme discovery and participation, connecting introductory information with the appropriate learning and competition level. This case study presents the identity, product communication and campaign work; interface screens are not included.

WebsiteWebsite designWeb appEarly concept

08 / System value

From component
to competition.

The project connects technical credibility, educational clarity and competitive energy across one recognisable system.

Identity creates the signal. Product communication reveals what students can build. Campaigns turn that possibility into an invitation. Competition imagery shows the scale of the community waiting at the end of the process. Together, those layers make H2GP legible not as a one-off race, but as a progressive route into hydrogen engineering.

Credits
Design by Hazhin Roshanysefat during an engagement with Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies / Horizon Educational · Event photography supplied by the client

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