London-based product designers PearsonLloyd designed the Siren MP3 player for Signeo, which has just been launched in Japan.
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The following information is from PearsonLloyd:
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SIREN FOR SIGNEO
The Siren MP3 player is an attempt to understand how pure function and reduced complexity can lead to a simple and harmonious design. Designed to be comfortable in the hand and pocket with no sharp edges and very slim buttons, the MP3 player has been sized and arranged to allow easy navigation with the additional function of a mirrored screen that can be used as a vanity mirror for females.
Modern technology has allowed huge changes to interface possibilities yet we still base the logic of communication on simple commands; stop, play, fast forward, pause etc. In addition the selection and control of the interface is still dependent on manipulation of our digits.
Update: PearsonLloyd have provided the following photo for scale.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
July 29th, 2008 at 5:16 am
Surprisingly generic.. come on PearsonLloyd - you can do better than that!
July 29th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Pretty bad case of Ipod-enviousness I’d say! But what would you expect from two brits?
July 29th, 2008 at 8:45 am
scale?
July 29th, 2008 at 9:15 am
looks like an air conditioning control
July 29th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Dezeen!? What the hell?!
I mean… this is a great bog and all, but the post quality from the last few months is way LOW. Why is this even here?
This MP3 player just reminds me of the crap objects that pharmaceutical companies offer to doctors. This just looks like it was designed/assembled in China.
Very. Very. Very. Bad!
July 29th, 2008 at 11:52 am
I find the apparatus nicely simple. Not everybody needs touchscreen, colorflow, or internet access in their MP3 players.
July 29th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Oops I meant “coverflow” instead of “colorflow” in the last post
July 29th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
This is a lame attempt at being “simple”.
It passes for a ‘bland, no interest, not even trying to be nicely proportioned discrete minimalist design ” air conditioning or electric garage door handset etc…..
July 29th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Blame minimalism for the lack of ideas.
July 29th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Looks like Honeywell designed that one…
July 29th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
This is beautiful, i’d trade my nano on this in a heartbeat!!
mmmm just want to hold it
All of you shouting bland whatnots, stop with the hating already
earlier post concerning scale:
I reckon figure it out looking at the pic with the headphone connection…
July 29th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
It is reminding me of the things people use for taking temperatures.
Only thing is to put it in the same place, perhaps the best place for it.
July 29th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
“mirrored screen that can be used as a vanity mirror for females”
Because males never look in the mirror. Real men, of course, will use the mirrored screen to reflect sun-signals from mountaintops on their rugged MacGuyveresque adventures. Why did they leave that part out of the marketing copy, huh?
July 29th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
A lovely reminder of the purism that all ‘tools’ should possess.
Don’t worry PearsonLloyd, those of us who actually think before we write understand what you’re all about.
And Clifford, have you forgotten that Jonathan Ive is a British? You probably have no idea who he even is do you?
July 30th, 2008 at 4:12 am
How is an MP3 player a tool exactly?
July 30th, 2008 at 8:23 am
A tool is an object that has been designed to perform a particular purpose. This object has a sole purpose. The playback of music. How is it not a tool?
July 30th, 2008 at 10:37 am
I’d probably know who he was even if I didn’t want to. He has had an indisputable influence of tech design, and an unquestionable influence on PearsonLloyd when designing this dozen-MP3. Heck, even the button typography is the same. All I am saying is why not try something new? Every second-grade tech brand is trying to copy Apple, PearsonLloyd claims to be at the forefront of the design scene. With such an ambition, you need to deliver fresh ideas, not lame mimicking.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Take a look at Norweigian design studio Norway Says and their MP3 for Asono called “Mica”. Fresh and original yet stylish.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Matthew,
I think Clifford makes reference to Ive & Pearson Lloyd having the SAME nationality (British, for those who don’t live on earth) and therefore Pearson Lloyd wantiing to follow in the footsteps of Ive.
July 30th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Shouldn’t it be more than a tool? Seems strange to describe something that enables one to appreciate art (music) as a ‘tool’.
Anyway, tool or not, it doesn’t change the fact that this is a disappointing piece of design from two usually good designers. I can’t seem to find anything particularly pure (or intelligent) about it at all..
November 26th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
how is this trying to copy apple? as far as i know apple hasn’t patented white plastic. yet.