Silver Siren Speaker by Jiaxing Guo is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Silver A' Design Award in Audio and Sound Equipment Design Competition Category.
SilverAudio Products· 2021
Silver Siren Speaker
by Jiaxing Guo
Client: Jiaxing Guo
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Audio Products Category
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About Silver Siren Speaker
Silver Siren is a handmade speaker project inspired by Siren the mythology. Sirens were dangerous creatures who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. They were sometimes depicted as beautiful women, whose bodies, not only their voices, are seductive. Silver Siren was designed to depict the imagery of the siren and the ocean.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Silver Siren Speaker is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Silver Siren Speaker is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Silver Siren Speaker is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
“Silver Siren” is a handmade speaker project inspired by Sirens. In Greek mythology, Sirens, these mythical beings were famed for their mesmerizing music and voices, which they used to entice sailors into shipwrecks upon the treacherous shores of their islands. In myth, Sirens were portrayed as hybrids of women and birds, assuming various forms. Often, they were imagined as breathtakingly beautiful women, seductive not only through their voices but through their very forms. This project seeks to encapsulate the allure and danger of these mythical figures, translating their enchanting legacy into a modern auditory experience.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
I was focusing on achieving a perfect surface. So it took me a lot of time to get it right.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
I'm planning to make it into a collection that shares the same concept.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Sirens were dangerous creatures who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. They were sometimes depicted as beautiful women, whose bodies, not only their voices, are seductive. Enchanting but dangerous, isn’t Siren excellent imagery of a beautiful, mysterious speaker with a fluid, organic form? I tried to capture Sirens' moment leaning on the rock, singing and waiting for sailors as well as the color and the movement of ocean waves.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 266 mm x Depth 268 mm x Height 728 mm
- Tags
- consumer electronics, industrial design, product design, speaker, audio
- Production Technology
- I designed the form and the speaker/amplifier enclosures in Rhinoceros. Then laser cut MDF to make a section model. Glue pieces together and sand it to smooth. Then painted primer/automotive paints/clearcoat and assembled all the parts.
- Design Challenge
- During the development/realization phase, the challenge is how to make the organic form of the speaker and the layout of the internal electronics. I chose to make a section model, which is layers of MDF board, to lower the cost, and also, that would be an easy way to make the inner structure. For the internal electronics, I made a slide to easily take all the parts out of the main body if some components are broken.
- Research
- I looked into different art pieces and literature about the siren to feel and analyze the imageries of sirens. Then visualized them by a couple of sketches.
- Inspiration
- My inspiration is the Siren, which is the mythological creature in the sea. In Greek mythology, Sirens were dangerous creatures who lured nearby sailors with their enchanting music and singing voices to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island. They were sometimes depicted as beautiful women, whose bodies, not only their voices, are seductive. Enchanting but dangerous, isn’t Siren excellent imagery of a beautiful, mysterious speaker with a fluid, organic form? I tried to capture Sirens' moment leaning on the rock, singing and waiting for sailors—also the color and the movement of ocean waves.
- Project Duration
- The project started in Jan 2019 in Los Angeles and finished in August 2019.
- Operation Flow
- There is a control penal on the side of the speaker. You could connect to your audio devices by Bluetooth or AUX cable.
- Team Members
- Designer: Sean (Jiaxing) Guo
Photographer: Fiorella (Lingxue) Xiao
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