I actually think David Lewis could have designed the BL14's and that he would very much approve - it has all his hallmarks, circles, aluminium, the sub looks like something he would have designed (almost looks like part of the BL5/BL9 family). I think they look really terriffic! But thats what design is all about i guess - not everyone wants to see the same thing.
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I agree!
Edde🙁
I miss David Lewis, too. Some of B&Os latest products really are quite ugly, IMHO.
David Lewis was a master but Torsten Valeur the chief of the David Lewis Designer is also good. BeoLab 14 looks nice in the Beo's spirit.
Me too. The modern stuff looks like its either rushed see the playmaker , retro nonsense see that awful brick radio or plain weird see that bass drum on wooden legs.
id like to know what they're smoking in the design dept these days
To be fair you can't include Play products in a discussion about B&O design - they are deliberately different in design for a reason - they even made a totally separated brand for them to distinguish this. Different designers too apart from A8 which was David Lewis anyway.
Thorsten Valeur designed BV10 too. BeoPlay products are designed too be different from the main products.
I completely agree. Times change, design evolves. Easy to over-romanticise the past. I personally think the new products are fantastic and I think it's great how they are using a new generation of design talent. Red dot design awards (for the V1 and BeoLit 12) are surely testament to this.
Don't be overly impressed by a Red Dot award - firstly you have to apply to be judged, then (if wiki is to believed)
in 2008, there were over 3.200 submissions from 51 countries for the product design prize (with 676 winning) ......
i.e. a ratio of just over 1 in 4 entrants "win".
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I do agree. But maybe we all just stuck in the time we first saw B&O. I still love the brushed metal and wood look of the Jacob Jensen products. The lab 12 is just completely terrible, as for the lab 14, I guess it's nice that they have a product in this category, it doesn't have any B&O magic for me though.
I can't believe the V1 won any awards , it's a design disaster.
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