A gaggle of scholars finding out at Karnavati College in India have created a Teenage Engineering-inspired gaming console, just like that of the Nintendo Change.
Nidharshan Suresh, who research Industrial Design on the college, has showcased the group’s work on-line. The console follows the minimalist and futuristic design method taken by TE, that includes pops of orange color as usually seen throughout its product vary.
To create the idea, Suresh and his group – Nishi Shah, Anoushka Pawar, Dhananjay Vispute, Aditi Rakhunde and Vishesh Jaiswal – seemed on the designs of TE’s OP-1 discipline synthesizer, sampler and drum machine, in addition to its TP-7 audio recorder. Additionally they studied the several types of players, and the kinds of consoles they could play – for instance, players who prefer to play on the go, or those that prefer to play in a social context and check out completely different video games out.
In line with Suresh’s Behance web page, Fast Cad was carried out into the design course of to extra simply visualise interplay, kind and performance of the product.
“Mastering minimalism was a key takeaway from this undertaking. Each element issues in attaining clear, practical design,” writes Suresh. “This undertaking journey additionally gave me data on Design for manufacturing (DFM), intricate product detailing, aesthetics and the way design communicates model values and goal markets.”
Take a look at extra photographs of the design, which, we should add, is only for an academic undertaking and never a industrial product, beneath:
Final November, Teenage Engineering dropped its EP-133 Ok.O.II pocket sampler/composer, to a lot pleasure from followers of the model. Following the discharge, David Eriksson (co-founder and head of {hardware} on the model) advised MusicTech of the response to its launch, “It was a bit overwhelming — we knew it will be common, however that common? I believe we had completely different opinions.”
He added, “We’re under no circumstances market-driven. I imply, most huge firms on this planet are; they attempt to predict what may promote nicely. I believe we’re in all probability the other.”
Take a look at extra of Nidharshan Suresh’s work by way of Behance, and examine all of Teenage Engineering’s newest official merchandise.
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