Birdy Hátalari by Leijing Zhou and Xin An is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award í járni in Hönnun hljóð- og hljóðbúnaðar Competition Category.
JárnHljóðvörur· 2023
Birdy Hátalari
Client: Zhejiang University
A' Design Award í járni Winner in Hljóðvörur Category
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The Design
About Birdy Hátalari
Bókartexti: Birdy er hátalari með fuglalöguðum stjórnpinna sem gerir notandanum kleift að stjórna tónlistarspilun með höndunum. Neðri hlutinn er keilulaga hátalari með tveimur 5W hátölurum og tvíhliða D-flokks magnara. Stýripinnaskynjari efst á keilunni greinir hreyfingu fuglalíkansins á báðum ásum. Að sveifla fuglinum fram eða aftur stillir hljóðstyrkinn, en að sveifla honum til vinstri eða hægri velur fyrra eða næsta lag. Birdy virkar einnig sem snjallheimilishjálp sem svarar fuglahljóðum. Hönnunin er hugsuð til að skapa eðlilega og tilfinningaríka tengingu milli fólks og tækni.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award í járni
Birdy Hátalari vann A' Design Award í járni, virta viðurkenningu sem veitt er góðum hönnunarverkum sem uppfylla þær faglegu og iðnaðarlegu kröfur sem gerðar eru til vel hannaðra sköpunarverka. Sigurvegarar í járni sýna mikla færni, mikla sérhæfingu, sérfræðiskilning og skapandi getu höfunda sinna. Þess er vænst að Birdy Hátalari sé mjög metið, dáð og elskað sköpunarverk sem er hagnýtt og nýstárlegt. Þetta hönnunarverk sem vann A' Design Award í járni sameinar bestu starfsvenjur greinarinnar og hefur hæfa tæknilega eiginleika tengda þekkingu og hæfileikum. Birdy Hátalari er virt fyrir nákvæmni sína og er hannað til að veita lífsgæðabætur sem hjálpa til við að gera heiminn að betri stað.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Birdy provides a more engaging way to control music playback. With its bird-shaped game stick, users can interact with their music in a unique and interesting way, making the experience feel more natural and intuitive. Designed to emulate the experience of touching and interacting with a live creature, Birdy provides a refreshing departure from traditional, lifeless speakers.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The full height of the product is 316mm. The bottom cone speaker is 250mm high and the maximum diameter is 142mm.
- Tags
- Speaker, Emotional design, Bird, Bionics, Natural
- Production Technology
- The speaker features two 5W drivers with a dual-channel class D amplifier. On the top of the cone is a joystick sensor that detects the movement of the bird above it in both XY axes, thus controlling the music playback.
- Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge of the design is how to give an emotional connection to a technological artifact. We were inspired by the interaction between humans and birds, where birds have a natural connection to music. This led us to design Birdy, a speaker that offers a more natural and intuitive way to interact with technology, bridging the gap between the digital and physical worlds.
- Research
- People communicate emotionally with their pets and we have studied various interactions between people and their pets and found that we were inspired by the interaction between humans and bird pets, where on the one hand birds have a natural connection to music and on the other hand their physical interaction between human and birds can be extracted as a way to control the music.
- Inspiration
- The design of Birdy is inspired by the way bird breeders often stroke and interact with their pets. The bird is located at the top and the bottom is a conical speaker. It is designed to foster emotional connections between users and the device, creating a more natural and seamless user experience.
- Project Duration
- The project started in March 2021 in Qingdao and finished in September 2022 in Ningbo.
- Operation Flow
- Users can control their music playback by swinging the bird-shaped game stick at the top, similar to a joystick. Swinging the bird backward or forward adjusts the volume, while swinging it left or right skips to the previous or next song. Additionally, Birdy is also a smart home assistant that responds to different bird calls.
- Team Members
- Leijing Zhou
Xin An - Image Credits
- Xin An
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