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View ArticleEveryday functionality and democratic design
Scandinavians are exceptionally gifted in design. They are world-famous for their inimitable, democratic designs which bridge the gap between crafts and industrial production. The marriage of...
View ArticleThe Witched Platter Mat by gTIE
I recently came across something that is simply too cute not to be shared with you: a platter mat made of reindeer skin! It’s called WITCHED PLATTER MAT. The owner and head designer of the gTIE brand...
View Articleen&is’ Megaphone
My personal 2011 Award for the most innovative audio product goes to the design team en&is’ Megaphone loudspeaker. It’s a loudspeaker and a passive amplifier for an iPhone, and it’s made of...
View ArticlePeople & people – Transparent Sound
This loudspeaker addresses not just the never ending aesthetic battle between home electronics and interior design, but also the problem of building loudspeakers that would not cause mixed feelings in...
View ArticleSES AUDIO Breeze
“A word about the build and looks, which in my opinion are what makes them different. First of all I wouldn’t have founded SES Audio had I not had this idea of creating unique and unusual cabinet...
View ArticleAfter Picasso and Hemingway, Blue Note
A simple black rectangle with rounded corners, an elastic page-holder, and an internal expandable pocket: a nameless object with a spare perfection all its own, produced for over a century by a small...
View ArticleSmart Tivoli design
When INNER was young, it fiercely wanted, as young people do, to dress well. It wanted to be seen, be attractive, draw attention. It had its own ideas what would look good, and it passed the ideas to...
View ArticleOnly fifteen is made
The bike has an awarded ultralight motor (Vivax Assist 4.75 (200W), invisibly built in the bike with more than 30 km range. The 20W speaker on top of the carbon fiber frame provides up to 100 hours of...
View ArticleSpace and events
In Japanese, the concepts of time and space are simultaneously expressed by the word ma. Space is fundamentally void and it is identical with occurring events. The space is recognized only in its...
View ArticleWoodnotes k Chair
Anyone who’s been browsing hifi/audio magazines and eyed ads especially on loudspeakers, could not have avoided making the conclusion that the only chairs which hifi hobbyists and audiophiles accept...
View ArticlePoetic reinvention
It’s a weird subculture. I mean people who make something out of almost anything, only that something remaining insistently the same. In Ken Butler’s case: string instruments. Butler invents...
View ArticleCover art simplicity
Most commonly LP covers portrait whoever happens to perform the music on the album, the solo artist, the band, the orchestra etc. Especially in popular music, music is largely personalized, fans...
View ArticleVitra Design Museum
One of the world’s leading design museums, Vitra Design Museum (initially a Chair Museum) was founded in 1989 by the Vitra furniture company. The museum is situated in Weil-am-Rhein, next to the...
View Articlefiligree. solid. modular.
Massive yet flexible, the Media-Lowboard called Thorax presents itself. Made of high-strength, high-end concrete, this exclusive piece of furniture can be individually adapted to the needs and wishes...
View ArticleHabitare – HiFi
Over the past few years the Helsinki Hifiexpo has been held in connection with Habitare interior, design and furniture fair the idea being obviously that people from the principal exhibition halls, or...
View ArticleNoise perceivers
“Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.” – John Cage. Lola Mijouin is Stockholm based industrial designer who...
View ArticleSpeaker transparency
Transparency. Not really a property of a sound; rather it’s a property of a surface and light. A transparent material or article allows, according to Oxford dictionary, light to pass through so that...
View ArticleAmphion design philosophy
The design philosophy of Amphion speakers is based on three basic principles of functionalism: durability, functionality and quality. In order for the sound quality to be as natural and clean as...
View ArticleB&O Beoplay S8
Bang & Olofsen has its own chapter in the history of Hi-Fi. The company’s roots extend to the 1920s. Since then it has enriched the concept of good sound and style with many memorable devices. It...
View ArticleApollo and Dionysos
Human life is ruled by two deep/basic forces, two different aspects of the same, in itself positive thing. On one hand there is this contemplative Apollonian reason, and on the other hand, the...
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