MCLAREN F1 // Singapore

CREATIVE: Christian Holland, Prateek Vatash, Machineast
CLIENT: McLaren F1 Team & Android

AGENCY: The Team
ROLE: 3D Illustration

For the 2026 Singapore Grand Prix, H+ Creative brings together Christian Holland, Prateek Vatash, and Singapore-based duo Machineast to translate traditional Peranakan beadwork into helmet designs for Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris. Working in unison across every side of each shell, the team builds meticulous bead-by-bead 3D renders, turning motifs, backgrounds, and outlines into tactile glass beading before delivering print-ready production files.

Piastri’s turquoise helmet centers a blazing phoenix, a Peranakan symbol of virtue and prosperity, framed by peonies, copper-orange trim, and an Android bot nested within a pink bloom on top. Norris’s yellow edition weaves his signature black blobs around a gold-green dragon and blossoming lotuses. Together, the helmets carry a treasured heritage craft onto one of motorsport’s most-watched stages, a seamless fusion of artisanal tradition and speed.