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Black Hole Multifunctional Guitar by Pouladvar |
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FS: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
PT: The unique design of the body is based on the hard rock and metal music, which is also include very smart science of ergonomics.The presence of an LCD on the fretboard, which adds to BlackHole's particular 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.In Black Hole, we have inspired especially those like motorhead, metallica and slayer, and guitars such as jackson kelly jackson randy rhodes and gibson explorer and james hetfield’s signatures.
FS: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
PT: Integration of design based on rock and metal music of the 80's and 90's with technology of the day.
FS: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
PT: To finalize this project.
FS: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?
PT: 5 month
FS: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
PT: Due to experiences in composing music and playing music instrumentals, as well as the many years of product design, we have been able to following our inspiration.
FS: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?
PT: Our preference is to sell or lease the production rights.
FS: What made you design this particular type of work?
PT: Experiences in composing music and playing music instrumentals, as well as the many years of product design experiences.
FS: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?
PT: Guitar designs such as jackson kelly, jackson randy rhodes and gibson explorer and james hetfield’s signatures.
FS: Who is the target customer for his design?
PT: Guitar manufacturers or Use as a guitar signature for an specific guitarist.
FS: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?
PT: The unique design which is also include smart science of ergonomics. LCD on the fretboard, which adds to BlackHole's particular functionality. Fret markers behind the guitar neck with braille signs, can help people who are blind or have low vision, to find frets.
FS: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
PT: The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole. In our view, a black hole can represent a philosophy for evolution in order to pass the time and space limitations. This multifunctional guitar can explain the philosophy of music in a new way. A connection between today's facilities and the music history, can be a movement towards the development of this music instrument.
FS: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?
PT: Softwares : sketchbook pro, adobe photoshop, rhinoceros, dassault system catia, final cat pro x, cubase Elements Hardwares : imac pro, i7 computers, wacom cintiq, music instruments
FS: What is the most unique aspect of your design?
PT: Unique design and performance.
FS: What is the role of technology in this particular design?
PT: Mostly electrical engineering and computer science, have important rule in this project.
FS: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?
PT: Musical research has been based on the musical experience of the group.
FS: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?
PT: Our main challenge is the time.
FS: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?
PT: Our team is always try to explore new ideas in various fields. For this particular design, we decide to integrate product design and music experiences, together.
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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