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Type V Travel Electric Guitar by Vladimir Shorin Is Granted the Silver A' Design Award in Musical Instruments Design
Vladimir Shorin honored for musical instruments design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Musical Instruments Design category for Type V Travel Electric Guitar by Vladimir Shorin, designed for 2A instruments. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Type V Travel Electric Guitar
Type V is a travel electric guitar designed for practice and composition in many locations. The lightweight body weighs 2.49 kilograms and allows comfortable playing while standing, sitting or leaning back on a sofa. A solid Sapeli body, a five piece maple and Sapeli neck, an ebony fretboard and stainless steel fanned frets support long sustain and clear tones. The extended range instrument has 24 frets, a headless fixed bridge and a matte black finish. The shape draws on the smooth forms of yachts and jets.
About Vladimir Shorin
Vladimir Shorin is an architect with almost two decades of experience. Having worked with projects of various types and scales now his task lies in the field of project documentation delivery to answer the growing demand in the local construction market. Being passionate about all aspects of design he has a strong interest in private residential architecture, human-centric spaces, harmless environment. Vladimir enjoys taking projects from concept to realization, from hand sketches to digital models, and finally getting things built. He never stops being curious about various matters. Flexible and easy-going, keen to apply his experience in different ways.
Award Record
With this recognition, Vladimir Shorin is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Musical Instruments Design Award
The A' Musical Instrument Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good musical instruments by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to musical instrument designers, industrial designers, music instrument producers and acoustic engineers from all countries. Typical entries include guitars, pianos, violins, drums, saxophones and flutes. The awarded musical instrument designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/musical-instrument
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/140371
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/140371
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!140371
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/331024
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.instagram.com/2ainstruments/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Type V Travel Electric Guitar
- Function
- Travel Electric Guitar
- Category
- Musical Instruments Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Arts and Entertainment
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Dark Gray, Lavender and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- 2A instruments
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Vladimir Shorin
- Country
- United States of America
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #140371
Credits
- Image Credits
- Video Credits: Filmed and edited by Den Mukhin, playthrough by Michail Semkov, music by Idols to Be Faded, all copyrights belong to Idols To Be Faded
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Lightweight and ergonomic, one can take it wherever one likes to practice or where one gets inspiration to compose some beautiful melodies. The body shape allows comfortably playing in a various range of positions, while standing, seating, even leaning back on a sofa. It's sonic delivery bases on a careful wood and pickup selection as well as structural features, providing long sustain and clear tones. This extended range guitar offers great playing experience in many different styles.
- Inspiration
- The guitar design based on both ergonomic body properties and shapes of vessels such as yachts or jets which smooth gliding on the waves or soaring high above evokes a feeling of absolute freedom just like our favorite music.
- Research
- Though being a huge guitar enthusiast throughout the years I've never thought about designing one. This project demanded a deep research in various aspects of electric guitars in order to reach maximum comfortable playability, sound specifications, ergonomics and last but not least - manufacturability. From analyzing traditional shapes to studying contemporary trends in the guitar industry and spending countless hours to search for any kind of relevant information, the process took it's time. But due to the positive feedback from fellow musicians it was worth it.
- Challenge
- The main challenge was to achieve an accurate balance between attractive futuristic shape and functional characteristics of the musical instruments, and finally get it build precisely according the concept.
- Realization and Technology
- The design started from concept sketches on a blank paper and continued with full scale drawings, CAD drawing, prototyping from extruded polystyrene foam, prototyping from MDF, and the fabrication with a CNC machine. Finally it has been manually painted, polished and assembled.
- Operation and Interaction
- Use it with headphone amplifier or a powerful guitar stack, just the way you like to play music.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in the Fall of 2018 and finished in Summer of 2019. It has been developed in Moscow, Russia
- Specifications
- 815mm height x 280mm width x 45mm depth (body) 2,49kg weight Sapeli solid body. Maple/Sapeli 5 piece neck. Ebony fretboard. Stainless steel fanned frets. Fokin Uppercut bridge pickup. Nova headless fixed bridge/headpiece. 24 frets. 25,5-27' scale. Matte black finish. Anchor access from the side of the neck pickup
- Keywords
- guitar, electric guitar, guitar design, travel guitar, electric guitar design, extended range guitar
