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Black Hole Multifunctional Guitar by Shaheen Pouladvar and Shahram Pouladvar

Black Hole Multifunctional Guitar by Shaheen Pouladvar and Shahram Pouladvar is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 Abaalmarinta Lacagta ah ee A' Design Award in Naqshadeynta Qalabka Muusigga Competition Category.


LacagQalabka Muusigga· 2019

Black Hole Multifunctional Guitar

by Shaheen Pouladvar and Shahram Pouladvar

Client: Pouladvar Design Group

Abaalmarinta Lacagta ah ee A' Design Award Winner in Qalabka Muusigga Category

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The Design

About Black Hole Multifunctional Guitar

Daloolka madow waa gitaar badan oo shaqeynaya kuna saleysan dhagaxa adag iyo qaababka muusikada birta. Qaabka jirku wuxuu siiyaa ciyaartoyda gitaarka inay dareemaan raaxo. Waxay ku qalabeysan tahay muuqaal buluug ah oo muuqaal ah oo ku yaal fretboard-ka si loo abuuro saameyno muuqaal ah iyo barnaamijyo waxbarasho. Calaamadaha Braille ee ka dambeeya qoorta guitar, waxay ka caawin kartaa dadka indhaha la 'ama arag hoose u leh inay gitaarka ciyaaraan.

The Recognition

About the Abaalmarinta Lacagta ah ee A' Design Award

Black Hole Multifunctional Guitar waa guuleystaha Abaalmarinta Lacagta ah ee A' Design Award, aqoonsi sharaf aad u sarreeya oo la siiyo naqshado heerka ugu sarreeya oo quruxsan oo soo jiidasho leh. Guuleystayaasha Lacagta waa shaqooyin aad u dhalaalaya iyo hal-abuur sare leh oo muujiya khibrad, hibo iyo hufnaan naqshadeeyayaashooda. Black Hole Multifunctional Guitar waa shaqo la filayo inay noqoto shaqo quruxsan oo tusaale ah, xirfad cad leh oo hal-abuur qoto dheer leh. Naqshadahan ku guuleystay Abaalmarinta Lacagta ah ee A' Design Award waa hal-abuur aad loo dareemo oo la ammaano, waxtar leh oo hormariya xuduudaha farshaxanka, sayniska, naqshadaynta iyo tignoolajiyada. Black Hole Multifunctional Guitar waa hal-abuur dad badan ay doonayaan, kicisa rabitaanno, keena dareenno wanaagsan oo abuura yaab.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Design of the body is based on the hard rock and metal music, which is also include science of ergonomics. The presence of a liquid crystal display on the fretboard, which adds to Black hole's functionality. Fret markers behind the guitar neck with braille signs, can help people who are blind or have low vision, to find frets. This function even makes professionals to play guitar easier. Existence of a controller on guitar’s body, allows the player to instantly change the monitor's images.
Dimensions & Packaging
1118mm height x 423mm width x 93mm depth
Tags
Guitar, Electric Guitar, LCD Fretboard, Black hole, Guitars, Visualization Riffs Solos
Production Technology
We started with sketching on paper and implementation thoughts with digital sketching and got a basic look. By doing several reforms and trying to optimize the final design, we use catia software to make sure Black hole was producible. After rendering with keyshot software, we got to the final look. We created the video with final cut pro software and compose a song especially for this project.
Design Challenge
Broader research to optimize early ideas is always a hard way. Of course, it is acceptable that there is always need greater hardness and effort to be optimized and matured.
Research
The design of the guitar has hitherto been more limited to simple geometric volumes and fixed graphics on its body. While we thought that the appearance of the guitar would not be limited to the silent face no more. Considering the technology of the day, the smaller and lighter electrical parts that use in mobile phones as you see. We decided to integrate the technology of the day with a unique design of 80s music styles based on our experiences.
Inspiration
Our two-person design team, which has 10 years of product design experience and 19 years of electric guitar playing, composed and performed in rock and metal styles, has gained experience in finding the appropriate reasons for combining these experiences. In Black hole, we have inspired hard rock and heavy metal & thrash metal styles, especially those like motorhead, metallica and slayer, and guitars such as jackson kelly jackson randy rhodes and gibson explorer and james hetfield’s guitar signatures.
Project Duration
This project started in November 2018 until March 2019, in Tehran Iran
Operation Flow
The idea of the display on the fretboard has several modes:
Learning, Practicing, Performing,
In learning mode, musician can learn guitar lessons that especially designed for the Black hole. They can save data in guitar's memory and learn it from the display. In practice mode, musician can practice guitar patterns. In performing mode, Imagine when the music riffs & solos playing on stage, the guitar displays images, associated with music sensation and shows the excitement inside it on display.
Team Members
Designer: Shaheen Pouladvar
Designer: Shahram Pouladvar
Image Credits
image#1 : Creator shaheen pouladvar, shahram pouladvar, Black hole, 2019
image#2 : Creator shaheen pouladvar, shahram pouladvar, Black hole, 2019
image#3 : Creator shaheen pouladvar, Black hole sketches, 2019
image#4 : Creator shaheen pouladvar, shahram pouladvar, Black hole, 2019
image#5 : Creator shaheen pouladvar, shahram pouladvar, Black hole , 2019
Video Credits : shahram pouladvar, music by shahram pouladvar (song name : time), 2019
Music Performer : shahram pouladvar

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