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Trend book - Dutch Design Week Eindhoven 2011

sharing and co-creation

The Dutch Design Week is an annual event about Dutch design, hosted in Netherlands.The event takes place around the second week of October and is a one-week exhibition with many venues. The book contains some of the most important designs showed during the exposition.

Link: http://www.ddw.nl/docs/TB_2011_preview.pdf

Year Zero - Rob Reid

Plot: The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on humanity’s music ever since “Year Zero” (1977 to us), when American pop songs first reached alien ears. This addiction has driven a vast intergalactic society to commit the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang. The resulting fines and penalties have bankrupted the whole universe. We humans suddenly own everything—and the aliens are not amused. [...]

Link: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/06/book-trailer-year-zero-by-rob-reid/

Sound Design - David Sonnenschein

Plot: What attracts someone to become a sound designer? Musicians fascinated by the potential of playing with images... Cartoon "whiz-bangs" affecting a tender young mind... A solitary techie finding a creative outlet... The routes are many and each brings its own fertile seeds of expression. [...]

Link: http://www.sonicstrategies.com/bio.html

Sentimenti/emozioni

Feelings that produce headphones

The emotions that produce the headphones are usually associated with the music that we heard, depending also on the moment and the place where we are. Furthermore one song can make us feel different emotions depending on the circumstances.

The headphones for each person representing a different emotion so it is difficult to choose one.
Here we have an example:

 Relax

 Movement

 Freedom

 Happiness

 Sadness

 Tiredness

Privacy

Sometimes headphones not only isolate the sound to avoid disturbing, but also provides privacy when you use them, providing the opportunity to everyone to enjoy the music them likes. 

Here we have two examples of the same street and how it changes for the different people.

Video "Hey You! What Song are you Listening to? NEW YORK"

Video: WeSC Headphone Commercial 2011

Fashion

Even if it's not associated with a particular emotion, headphones if they are deeply rooted in urban culture, especially between youth, who see it as an accessory to be trendy.

Francobollo

Aland (Finland)

Iran

Costa Rica

Finland

Italy

Belgium

Netherlands

Info: http://vincemd.blogspot.it/2010/07/headphones-on-stamps.html

Vantaggi e svantaggi di cuffie

Canadian Tire Comercial, "Earphones"

Philips Wireless Headphones Commercial

Marchi più popolari di cuffie

- Dinamic Driver

Sennheiser

HiFiman RE

Monster

JVC

- Balanced Armature

Ultimate Ears

Westone

Shure

Earsonics

Cuffie in Giappone

Manga

We find the influence that headphones have had and that they are completely integrated into the Japanese culture, to the point of including it in his series of one way or another.

Bakuman

Bleach

Ao no exorcist

Business strategies

Strategies in Japan are clearly different from those that we have in the Europe. Proof of this is this catalog of headphones, in which different manga artists show us a repertoire of different drawing styles between them but with the same goal: sell differently makes and models of headphones, through illustrations.

Vocaloid

Vocaloid is a singing voice synthesizer. Its signal processing part was developed through a joint research project led by Kenmochi Hideki at the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain in 2000 and originally was not intended to be a full commercial project. Backed by the Yamaha Corporation, it developed the software into the commercial product "Vocaloid.

The software enables users to synthesize singing by typing in lyrics and melody. It uses synthesizing technology with specially recorded vocals of voice actors or singers. To create a song, the user must input the melody and lyrics. A piano roll type interface is used to input the melody and the lyrics can be entered on each note. The software can change the stress of the pronunciations, add effects such as vibrato, or change the dynamics and tone of the voice. Each Vocaloid is sold as "a singer in a box" designed to act as a replacement for an actual singer.

The software is intended for professional musicians as well as light computer music users and has so far sold on the idea that the only limits are the users' own skills. Japanese musical groups Livetune of Victor Entertainment and Supercell of Sony Music Entertainment Japan have released their songs featuring Vocaloid as vocals. Japanese record label Exit Tunes of Quake Inc. also have released compilation albums featuring Vocaloids. Artists such as Mike Oldfield have also used Vocaloids within their work for back up singer vocals and sound samples.

In addition they have developed different characters to recreate the voices, creating a look for each of them and even personality.  They have come to perform concerts of 3D characters, with great success indeed.

Concert of Vocaloid, Japan

Cuffie come art

The headphones are associated with music and in particular with the youth culture, that's why they are used a lot of times as a symbol.

Pop art

Punk

Urban style

Digital art

Others: http://www.zazzle.es/headphones+posters

Abbecedario delle cuffie

A - Acustic

B - Band, Break-dance

C - Classic

D - Dance

E - Ear, Electhronic

F - Fusion

G - Globalization

H - Hip-hop

I - Isolated, Indie

J - Jazz, Jogging

K - Krump

L - Listen

M - Music, Metal

N - Noise

O - Ophera

P - Punk, Pop

Q - Queen

R - Rhythm, Rock

S - Sound

T - Techno

U - Urban

V - Vocal

W - Word

X - Xylophone

Y - YMCA

Z - Zombie