Press Release
One618 Omnee Wireless Speaker by Jurica Huljev Is Granted the Golden A' Design Award in Audio and Sound Equipment Design
Jurica Huljev honored for audio and sound equipment design by the international grand jury of the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 24, 2024 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that One618 Omnee Wireless Speaker by Jurica Huljev, designed for One.618, has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Audio and Sound Equipment Design category. The result belongs to the 2023 - 2024 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Golden A' Design Award Explained
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
Regarding One618 Omnee Wireless Speaker
An indoor and outdoor omnidirectional concrete wireless speaker with a built-in amplifier and powerful batteries. It streams music from any source anywhere and emits sound 360 degrees, creating an ultra-wide listening area. Concrete enhances the sound quality and provides a unique visual and tactile appeal. The speaker harmonizes form and function, inspired by the golden ratio and the Fibonacci sequence. It stands out for its design, versatility, quality, and natural and clear sound reproduction. It can be paired with more speakers to create a continuous immersive audio image.
About Jurica Huljev
Synthesis is a forward-thinking boutique architecture and design studio that specializes in production. Our interdisciplinary approach seamlessly integrates architectural and design theory into every project. We thrive on challenges, excelling at bespoke tasks with our experience, talent, and cutting-edge technology, crafting each endeavor with passion and precision to bring clients' visions to life. We prioritize personalized design solutions, offering exclusive treatment to every client regardless of scale. Our client-specific process, driven by deep knowledge and adaptability, enables us to explore new tools and materials for unique outcomes.
Award Record
Jurica Huljev is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Audio and Sound Equipment Design Award
The A' Audio Products Design Award is an international product design competition recognizing best audio equipment by leading designers and brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to audio product designers, sound equipment designers, industrial designers and product engineers from all countries. Entries typically include headphones, microphones, speakers, amplifiers, soundbars and turntables. Awarded audio products designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/audio-products
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/152773
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/152773
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!152773
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/342864
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://ONE618.eu/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- One618 Omnee Wireless Speaker
- Function
- Wireless Speaker
- Category
- Audio and Sound Equipment Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances and Entertainment
- Colors
- Silver, Dark Gray, Lavender, Dim Gray and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- One.618
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Jurica Huljev
- Country
- Croatia
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2023 - 2024
- Design ID
- #152773
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- It's a unique indoor/outdoor omnidirectional concrete wireless multi-room hi-fi speaker with a built-in amplifier powered by powerful batteries and is capable of streaming from any source anywhere. Made of concrete as the ideal enclosure material (sound neutral, visual and tactile experience). Omnidirectional 360° radiation creates an ultra-wide listening area (the listener is not locked to the "sweet spot"). Sound waves are naturally emitted from one point by one full-range driver.
- Inspiration
- In a world of unlimited choice, true luxury is simplicity. omnee.m hides the fact that it is full of the tech. In today's fast pace, people don't have time to listen the music in one spot. omnee.m radiates all frequencies in 360°, providing the highest quality sound anywhere and to many people, regardless of the room's influence. The aesthetic form follows the golden ratio - 1.618, resulting in an architectural acoustic sculpture that thrill and tingle the senses when heard, seen or touched.
- Research
- omnee.m enables listeners to transcend from listening to immersive musical performance. It produces an all-encompassing sense of space, the feeling of a sound stage regardless of your position relative to the sound source. It lets you hear the texture and timbre, make instruments sound so real, every breath of a singer, and voices that sound startlingly convincing, full of intent and emotion. It lets you only hear and feel the music, not the loudspeaker.
- Challenge
- omnee.m is designed and engineered from scratch for the highest performance. It was done by breaking free from established conventions and forms used in speaker design, and by rethinking how each part should look and function using the form follows function principle. Each part is there because it is necessary, nothing more or nothing less. The author has put his knowledge, experience, and more than four years of passion and dedication into creating the concept, design, and project of sound, concrete, and electronics to make this project become a reality.
- Realization and Technology
- An ultra-high performance concrete mix with high-quality characteristics and aesthetics was developed. Heterogeneous and irregularly structured, with large mass and density, it has no vibrations and there is no sound coloration The softly curved aesthetic shape with non-coplanar sides and no unwanted resonances was monolithically casted for rigidity, air tightness, and uninhibited driver function.
- Operation and Interaction
- For a seamless user experience, the latest technology is used: - Active amplifier and DSP - Inputs: Airplay, DLNA, UPnP, Wi-Fi, BT, analog, digital, USB - Streaming: Spotify, Deezer, Tidal, Amazon, Qobuz, etc. - Stereo pairing, and Multi-room/zone - Unique minimalistic hidden touch controls illuminated by discrete fiber optics - IR remote - Smartphone app - Power input: 5-24V - Solar charging input - Integrated battery for 3 -5 days of music playing - Wireless QI charger
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in April 2018 in Zagreb, Croatia. It took more than 4 years of designing, engineering, modeling, electronics design, concrete and mold development. Numerous prototypes are made with attention to detail to achieve the best possible results. The project is finished in May 2023 and ready for production.
- Specifications
- Dimensions (H x W x D): Speaker: 530mm x 310mm x 290mm Speaker on stand: 1360mm x 470mm x 400mm Net weights: 24 kg - without stand
- Keywords
- one618, one618.eu, omnee.m, luxurydesign, architecturalspeaker, concretespeaker, hifispeaker, omnidirectional, bluetoothspeaker, multiroomaudio
