Monolith Meets Amp

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Introducing, Supernova: a 360-degree concrete guitar amp that sounds as good as it looks. The design is crafted from concrete which not only gives it a cool, monolithic look, but boasts fantastic acoustic properties as it’s rigid enough to damp driver vibrations yet not so dense as to hamper resonance.

Two drivers are housed within the body, including an up-firing tweeter and down-firing woofer that together give it a wide acoustic range. Additionally, acoustic lenses fire the sound out a full 360 degrees, meaning the amplifier can deliver great sound from anywhere in the room.

Using a smartphone, users can build sound presets as well as choose from existing amp, cab and microphone models. Choose any track from your music library to jam along, adjust the mix on the fly, tune, and record with just a touch.

Designer: Dan Salisbury

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Rotating the orbital dial turns the amplifier on, controlling the master volume.

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An up-firing tweeter and down-firing sub deliver a wide acoustic range, ideal for jamming along to your favourite track.

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Acoustic lenses fire sound out a full 360 degrees, meaning the amp can be placed almost anywhere in the room.

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The app allows for full control of guitar tone, volume, and backing tracks.

The overall mix and volume can be controlled with a single slider.

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A wireless guitar jack connects to your phone and the amp, removing the need for cables.

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Leads can still be connected around the back. Allowing for the use of effects pedals, output for recording, or line-in for jamming along.

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Illumination on the underside responds to sound.

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Jam, build amp models, tune, and record. All through the app.

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Bluetooth Never Looked So Beautiful

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Based on the infamous yet utilitarian Sennheiser HD25 headphones, Element Headphones are a modern take on the classic with a masculine material combination and state-of-the-art tech.

Outside, they’re clad in three distinct finishes: distressed copper, damascus steel and oxidized titanium. Distressed copper gives the headphones a depth and warmth which ages and transforms over time. Damascus steel embodies an ancient metal folding technique whereby hundreds of layers of steel are forged together. Finally, oxidized titanium is simple but beautiful – when titanium is exposed to heat or current, the surface oxides into a permanent blue/purple iridescent hue.

Not just nice to look at, these compact cans sport a small footprint but deliver big sound. They’re also packed with features like wireless connectivity and gesture touch-control.

Designer: Dan Salisbury

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The cups are created by sectioning a sphere. This creates a ball and socket interface between the cups and the band, allowing a degree rotational movement to help the headphones fit better.

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Shockingly good design!

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There are so many objects that rarely see any design intervention because they “are just fine the way they are”. A designer with a keen eye can pick out such design opportunities and really shake things up for the better. Dan Salisbury’s Fusebox redesign is exactly what I’m talking about. The design is a beautifully integrated layout of switches and even an e-ink display that helps you identify not just what each switch is for, but also the power consumption and load-bearing percentage. The switch gets lowered when the circuit breaks, in a way that makes it look elegant yet easy to identify. Lights out? No problem, each fuse switch has a backlight that goes on in the dark.

Just to sweeten the deal, the Fuse concept comes with a dedicated app that gives you all the info bundled into a slick, beautiful interface!

The Fuse concept received the Red Dot Award and the BraunPrize in 2015.

Designer: Dan Salisbury

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