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CLYDE HOME SPEAKER

Boden and son’s are proud high performance bass driver
to present the clyde home and high to low range tweet-
audio system. The speakers ers for a uncompromising raw
will be available in a lim- sound.
ited quantity featuring a

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D From our roots in heavy indus-
try we have taken the same un-

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compromising approach, re-
sulting in an unmatched high
fidelity sound

WANT TO GET IN TOUCH ?

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EMAIL [email protected]
Jack Smith
PHONE +44 07944192678 201510369
SPACIAL CONTEXT

An object to gather the family

around, to marvel in the won-
ders of sound.

A gathering point and a cen-

tre piece like the town halls
and steamies of old that now
sit empty. Taking inspiration
from brutalist architecture
this speaker aims to be a new
monument to family honesty
and solidarity of a bygone era

EXPERIENCE / INTERACTION
There is a ritual required to This speaker must be cared for
maintain the speakers apper- or in time as happens with all
SOCIAL CONTEXT
ance, This speker will show products, industries and build-
A product built to last, we hope abandonment. The bronze ings that have physically out-
that this object can stay in housing requires regular polish- lasted their functional requir-
familys for generations, being ing or over time it will tarnish ments, It will fade away.
passed down from father to son
as businesses and trades used
to be.

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EMOTIONAL FEATURES
ABANDONED
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The main body of the speaker is

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made of concrete, referencing

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the abandned brutalist build-
ing built to last forever that lie
abandoned in cities across the
world. It is also A reference to
the streets where many home-
less people sleep, concrete is
cold rough and unforgiving

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The speaker is exposed by a
expanded Bronze effect mesh-
making visible its fuctionality
and highlighting the vulnera-
bility of abandoned people and
places to be abused and forgot-
ten

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Intergration of truss beams as
a reminder of those who have
suffered as a result of the aban-
donment of Scottish industries
such as coal mining and ship-
building.
AESTETIC FEATURES

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The concrete body is one piece

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and seamless to show to poten-
tial strenght, solidarity and use-
fulness of industrial buildings
and people who have fallen by
the way side if only they were
given a chance.

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The stand, grill and volume
control are all made of bronze.

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A material once prized now re-
placed by more modern materi-
als. Also used as a throwback to
traditional instruments such as

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Embossed Boden and sons logo
as hommage to industrial prod-
ucts like stanks and machinery
which, commonly have this as a

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COMMERCIAL FRAMEWORK PRODUCTION
The product will be produced
locally making use of empty
facilities by the clyde side and
glasgows booming creative in-
dustries. A percentage of manu-
al handling jobs will be given to
those in need of a help up.

Batch production will be used

and products kept to a small
number to create exclusivity
and demand in the hope that
the speaker will be cherished
and passed down, or sold on
so that unlike most products it
doesnt end up dumped in land-
fill once a newer version comes
out.

MANUFACTURE
Speakers will be sold in physi-
cal stores as well as an online
Where possible materials will
presence.
be sourced from recycling
plants.
A portion of profits will go to
homeless charities to help those
Most parts will be cast includ-
left behind by economic down-
ing the concrete body and the
turn.
bronze features.

Most electronic components

will be outsourced from a suita-
ble partner.

A mock up of packaging for the

product. Traditional and struc-
tured is the aestetic the comany
is aiming to keep consistent.

RRP is estimat-
ed to be around £200.

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TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION AUDIO
high performance bass driv-
er at the bottom to benefit
from vibratioal resonance
and high to low range tweet-
ers on all sides for a un-
compromising raw sound.

ELECTRONICS
Control board with blue tooth
module, audio jack. rechargable
lithium ion battery and a usc-c
charger for for and safe power
transferance.

Single point of interac-

LITHIUM ION
tion with volume and blue-
tooth sync knob. Click and
hold for power on off, dou-
ble click for sync. Volume
24.5 CM up/ down is left and right.

SURFACE FINISH
Concrete will have polished
and sealed finish with a 10/1
acid wash, light sand and then
sealer. bronze parts will be
machined and polished until
they smooth to the touch and
high a high surface polish.

60, 45, 45 equilateral triangles

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DESIGN PROCESS PROTOTYPING

The design process has been a Protoyping early models al-

itterative development based lowed me to get a scope of the
off of early exploration into the size and impact of the speaker
shapes, materials and other leading to freater refinement.
features of a product that have
the ability to connect with an
emotion.

EXPLORATION

ITTERATION AND REFINEMENT

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Jack Smith
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