Hive speaker design bridges gulf between iPods, lawns

Christopher Stuart’s design for an outdoor speaker is simple and pleasingly unembellished. It’s just a speaker, a wireless connection, a big-bottomed battery and a plastic dome to protect it from whatever Mother Nature may fling at it. It looks like a futuristic ashtray.

Though commissioned, it doesn’t appear to be in production. So you’ll just have to put up with one of those giant polystyrene boulders for now.

Question: Why do industrial designers still commission Flash websites that prevent others linking to their work?

Lone Speaker Drone is Louder in a Hive [Yanko Design]

1. [muteboy]

   Agree about the website. Is there a campaign to make these people listen? Architects are guilty too.
   http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/architecture.html

2. [Gilbert Wham]

   I’m sure they get taught Flash, and only Flash, at university and are never aware that there are a million and six other ways to do it that DON’T PISS EVERYONE OFF. Either that, or they are all Chaotic Evil.