Type V 便携式旅行电吉他 by Vladimir Shorin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 银奖 in 乐器设计 Competition Category.

银乐器· 2022

Type V 便携式旅行电吉他

by Vladimir Shorin

Client: 2A instruments

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 乐器 Category

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The Design

About Type V 便携式旅行电吉他

Type V 是一款专为在多种场所练习与创作而设计的旅行电吉他。琴身轻盈,仅重2.49千克,无论站立、坐着还是倚靠在沙发上弹奏,都能保持舒适的演奏体验。实心沙比利木琴身、枫木与沙比利木五拼琴颈、乌木指板以及不锈钢扇形品丝,共同带来悠长的延音与清澈的音色。这款扩展音域乐器配有24品、无头固定琴桥,并采用哑光黑涂装。其造型灵感汲取自游艇与喷气机流畅的形体线条。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Type V 便携式旅行电吉他是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Type V 便携式旅行电吉他将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Type V 便携式旅行电吉他是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

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

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.
Dimensions & Packaging: 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
Tags: guitar, electric guitar, guitar design, travel guitar, electric guitar design, extended range guitar
Production 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.
Design 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.
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.
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.
Project Duration: The project started in the Fall of 2018 and finished in Summer of 2019. It has been developed in Moscow, Russia
Operation Flow: Use it with headphone amplifier or a powerful guitar stack, just the way you like to play music.
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