Project Xylo
Project Xylo Midi Device by Kevin Yang is a winner of the 2025 Golden A' Design Award in Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design.
Project Xylo is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs.
Explore This Amazing WorkProject Xylo Midi Device
Project Xylo reimagines midi interaction through a gamified, social platform for music making. Accessible to all skill levels, it simplifies beat creation with harmonic and tempo sync. Swappable cartridges and snap together devices support collaboration, while a retro, modular design enhances usability and style. Project Xylo is a series of portable midi devices designed for everyday music creation, offered in three sizes: sample, pocket, and midi.
Featured Design
Project Xylo by Kevin Yang
Core Functionality
Midi Device
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Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design Award Winner in 2025.
Golden Winner
Project Xylo Midi Device
Project Xylo is a Golden A' Design Award winner, an immensely prestigious recognition granted to first-rate, marvelous, and outstanding designs. Golden winners are exceedingly innovative, visionary, and glamorously dazzling creations that reflect the prodigy, wisdom, and prowess of their designers. Project Xylo is expected to be a praised, trendsetting, and monumental invention that delivers unprecedented value. This Golden A' Design Award-winning design is a spectacular, respected project that highly benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Project Xylo creates intense feelings of desire, evokes passion, encourages creativity, and fascinates us.
Winner Designer
Kevin Yang
With backgrounds in sculpture and product design, Kevin is seeking the commercial balance among functional works of arts, fusing creativity and user-centric solutions that elevate the everyday needs and wants. By focusing on user experience, interactions and corresponding CMF designs, Kevin is keen to dismantle, rebuild, and transform the mundanes into extraordinaries with inspirational touches and design proficiency.
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Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a leading postgraduate art and design university based in London, UK. Established in 1837, it offers MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees across disciplines including fine art, design, architecture, and communication, fostering innovation through research and practice.
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