Otokurage by Nendo

Japanese designers Nendo have produced these transparent sets of earphones that look like jellyfish. 

The earphones are available in a variety of colours and come packaged in small plastic bottles.

Photography is by Hiroshi Iwasaki and Masayuki Hayashi.

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The following is from the designers:

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We designed earphones “otokurage” for a Japanese computer accessories manufacturer “ELECOM”

“otokurage(oto=sound, kurage=jellyfish)”

design concept
We enlarged the silicon ear caps that cover earphones to hide the entire device, creating a set of in-ear headphones with a soft feel and an unusual transparency like that of a jellyfish.

Because the earphones’ components are unified into one piece, substituting the colour or size of the earcap changes their look entirely.

To keep with the image of a jellyfish floating in the water, the packaging was inspired by a PET plastic soft drink bottle.

This product will be sold in Japan from end of May.

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