Nostalx
Nostalx Speaker by Yuqing Xiao, Menghai Xia and Siyu Zang is a winner of the 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Digital and Electronic Device Design.
Nostalx is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
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Nostalx is a Bluetooth speaker with a retro design, equipped with both music playback and multi-band radio functionality. Its interface engages multiple senses, including touch, sound, and sight, providing an interactive listening experience. The tactile controls encourage physical interaction, setting it apart from standard digital products. In a digital age, Nostalx offers a sensory rich experience, allowing users to engage with their music in a hands-on and personalized way.
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Nostalx by Yuqing Xiao, Menghai Xia and Siyu Zang
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Digital and Electronic Device Design Award Winner in 2025.
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Nostalx Speaker
Nostalx is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Nostalx is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Nostalx splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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Yuqing Xiao, Menghai Xia and Siyu Zang
FFBA (Functional Form Block Alliance) is an award-winning design studio co-founded by Menghai Xia and Qijun Nie, dedicated to creating inclusive, human-centered innovations in product, service, and system design. With a mission to connect and empower communities, FFBA blends cultural insight, technological precision, and aesthetic clarity to solve real-world problems. The studio's work has received international acclaim, including numerous design awards, and is known for pushing boundaries while making design accessible, sustainable, and socially impactful.
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Functional Form Flock Allies
The Functional Form Block Allies is a design collective with designers based in Beijing, China; London, UK; and Savannah, Georgia, USA. Comprised of creative professionals collaborating across disciplines, the collective specializes in industrial design, user experience, interaction design, service design, and design education. With a user-centered and systematic approach, they craft functional, well-designed products that balance aesthetics and practicality across sectors such as electronics, medical devices, lighting, lifestyle products and industrial solutions.
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