Cyberphone

A concept phone drawn in the Tesla Cybertruck’s design language — flat planes, hard folds, exposed stainless, and a flip.

Category
Product & Technology
Year
2025

The Cybertruck works because it refuses to do the one thing every other vehicle does: it will not curve. Flat panels, single folds, no draw-formed surfaces, no paint. This concept asks what a phone looks like under the same rules. The result is a flip — faceted body, exposed brushed panels, a telescopic aerial, a light bar down one edge, an illuminated icon grid where the keypad would be, and a second angled screen carrying playback.

The challenge

Phones have spent fifteen years converging on the same object: a rounded rectangle of glass with the hardware hidden behind it. Applying a design language built for a three-tonne vehicle to something that lives in a pocket means every decision that makes the truck work — the sheer size of the planes, the absence of radii, the raw finish — has to survive being scaled down to 150 millimetres without becoming uncomfortable or unreadable.

The approach

The geometry was kept deliberately crude: straight cuts, no fillets where the language would not allow one, and panel breaks placed where a fold would actually have to happen. Everything that would normally be hidden is left visible — the hinge barrel, the antenna, the panel seams. The interface follows the same logic: the icon grid is a flat lit plane rather than a screen pretending to be glass, and the light bar is the only element allowed to be a pure colour.

Process
My role

Concept, hard-surface modelling, materials, UI design, lighting, animation and rendering.

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