Black Hole Katara by Shaheen Pouladvar and Shahram Pouladvar is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 Moputso oa Silevera oa A' Design Award in Moralo wa Disebediswa tsa Mmino Competition Category.
SileveraSesebediswa sa Mmino· 2019
Black Hole Katara
by Shaheen Pouladvar and Shahram Pouladvar
Client: Pouladvar Design Group
Moputso oa Silevera oa A' Design Award Winner in Sesebediswa sa Mmino Category
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The Design
About Black Hole Katara
Lesoba le letšo ke katara e sebetsang e mengata e thehiloeng ho lithebo tsa 'mino oa rock o thata le oa tšepe. Sebopeho sa 'mele se fa libapali tsa katara letsoalo. E na le pontšo ea kristale ea metsi ho fretboard ho hlahisa litlamorao le mananeo a ho ithuta. Matšoao a Braille ka mor'a molala oa katara, a ka thusa batho ba foufetseng kapa ba nang le pono e tlase ho bapala katara.
The Recognition
About the Moputso oa Silevera oa A' Design Award
Black Hole Katara ke mohapi oa Moputso oa Silevera oa A' Design Award, kananelo e hlomphehang haholo e fuoang meralo e phahameng ka ho fetesisa, e ntle le e tsosang maikutlo. Bahapi ba Silevera ke mesebetsi e khanyang haholo le e nang le boqapi bo ikhethang e bontšang botsebi, talenta le bohlale ba baqapi ba eona. Black Hole Katara e lebelletsoe ho ba mosebetsi o motle, oa mohlala, o nang le boprofeshenale bo bonahalang le mehopolo e mecha e tebileng. Moralo ona o hapileng Moputso oa Silevera oa A' Design Award ke mohopolo o hlokomelehang haholo le o ratoang o tlisang molemo mme o sutumelletsang meeli ea bonono, mahlale, moralo le theknoloji. Black Hole Katara ke mosebetsi oo batho ba bangata ba o lakatsang, o tsosang litakatso, o tlisang maikutlo a matle le o tsosetsang ho makala le ho hlolla.
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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