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My concept sketch for Bose head and neck forms, conceived for retail stores to merchandise headphones and to position brand for emerging audio wearable categories
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This headform project began with the sculpting of a custom form with a mannequin manufacturer in the Philippines. The mold technique, color, texture, neck angle and metal powder-coat finishes needed to be fine-tuned over several rounds between our Bose design team, NYC and Philippine offices. Magnets were embedded at ear position in order to hold ear buds. I wanted to design this merchandising approach for Bose in order to demonstrate their products' relationship to the body, and to support the notion of 'wearable accessories.' This method was also a lot more female friendly, though I worked to keep this form gender neutral.
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Bose store - World Trade Center - NYC
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Neck form phase II - this is the Global injection molded version - and is mounted to Bose wholesale display programs via a hidden bracket. These can easily be mass produced for big box retail venues. (Here the form is shown on the SoundWear Companion speaker displays).