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Custom77 has been designing original guitars since 2008. The Blackout is a mix of retro/vintage and futuristic concept, inspired by 50's american cars. The body shape really fits to the musician body and gives a feeling of confort. It's equipped with handwounded pickups and the highest hardware available. Terry Burrows, biggest selling guitar writers in the world, is "in love with Custom77 designs" and will introduce their work in the next "1001 guitars you must play before you die".
Our design is a protective smartphone case that amplifies the sound output of a mobile device. It delivers up to three times volume amplification and uses absolutely no electronics or batteries to function. This case is made to improve media sharing amongst friends and listening to music on the phone. It can be used whenever and wherever needed, even in noisy places. The volume increase and sound quality outperform any comparable amplifiers by far. Besides functionality, the case’s attractive design and high-grade material make it a quality product. It is designed and manufactured in the UK.
Twitter Mirror is a social networking selfie booth for celebrities to take photos at specialty events. It holds a tablet at an optimal camera height and uses the Twitter Mirror App to take the photo which is instantly shared online. The Twitter bird being an iconic brand identity, a birdhouse with a 3D visual illusion was designed. A stylus that appears as a bird perch is to add a personal signature on the photo. Twitter Mirror has integrated LED lighting and can be flat packed for shipment.
With the task of building a dream that would become the seed of change in people’s hearts, we came up with a four-element approach: defining a department’s identity (where we synthesized their Balance Score Card to 5 attitudes represented by visual icons which assembled a transformation formula), designing the culture, training change agents and creating a communications campaign system that would keep the new culture in people’s minds everyday.
Fidular fuses modern acoustics and digital fabrication with traditional craftsmanship, enabling instant disassembly and interchangeability of chamber and shafts across different fiddles from Asia to the Middle East. The design manifests a vision of culture aware technology, the convergence of future and traditional technologies, engineered for cross cultural fluidity. Inspired by an apprenticeship, Fidular functions with traditional and novel digitally-fabricated chambers, allowing players to customize timbre by mixing and matching components from various traditions on-the-fly.
Mobi is a unique modular structure system that can expand by simple multiplication, which can be built into both functional and decorative structures. Mobi is made of Polypropylene, and due to the structural design, it can support an impressive amount of weight. Mobi can build usable furniture pieces such as tables and benches, temporary architecture structures such as fair booths and pavilions, or it can be built into sculptures.
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Design Stories featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.