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title: "Drive Wire: Lifepaint Lets You Light Up in the Night"
description: "Cars, Culture, and the People Who Make Both. Your Destination for All Things Automotive."
date: "2015-10-30"
modified: "2015-10-30"
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  - name: "The Drive Staff"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/design/714/drive-wire-lifepaint-lets-you-light-up-in-the-night"
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  - "Culture"
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---

# Drive Wire: Lifepaint Lets You Light Up in the Night

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This week in design, we take a look at a novel way to keep trick-or-treaters safe. Collaborating with a Swedish startup and a London-based creative agency, Volvo developed a non-toxic reflective spraypaint, called Lifepaint. This isn’t you’re garden-variety Halloween silly string. The spray consists of reflective particles that adhere to the surface of anything from a bike to a skeleton costume. During the day, the paint is totally invisible, but once the user is near the bright lights of a roadway, the product really shines – pun very much intended.

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