Hey boead, what is it exactly that you do? I missed that somehow (I did see artist and designer thrown about quite liberally).
I’m not qualified to do industrial design and I never implied so. I have good design skills and taste but… industrial design? With some time, I’m sure I could come up with something but I... Volunteering! Frank is obviously asking for the help. Good!
Myself, I started out in the publishing industry almost 20 years ago. I went to college for Advertising Art and Design, worked as a apprentice for a color separator and film prep houses. Learned publishing and production, worked for a Fortune-500 commercial printer as a production manager, went back to college for Desktop Publishing, worked for a comic book and illustration publisher as a graphic designer and production manager and eventually got into consumer and trade publication as a production coordinator and operations manager. I also manage small projects as an associate publisher. I administer two to three dozen computers as well as an art department.
My only package design experience is with video and CDROM applications. We use to produce product and manufacturer directories on CDROM for the Audio Engineering and Musical Instrument Industries. We also owned a post production studio; I worked closely with studio manager and editors. I do some small-time video editing for multimedia and web applications. Yes, I wear lots of different hats – its fun.
So I appreciate good design.
And don’t get me completely wrong. I understand and sort of appreciate the simplistic look of current AVA gear. Unfortunately it lacks appeal and leans too heavily on simplicity as a byproduct of function and not intention.
Randog, I’m sure your qualified and I hope you come up with something that is stylish and worthy. I really DO like the sound of my AVA, especially with a Harmonic Tech AC-10 power cord.
Frank, I hope you’re not mad at me. I didn’t mean to get disrespectful, just being defensive.