2024 / Hobby & Sports / Hobbies Products: Music / Student

Project XYLO

• Prizes
  Top Design Winner in CONSUMER ELECTRONICS/Audio: E-Instruments, Winner in HOBBY & SPORTS/Hobbies Products: Music
• Lead Designer
  Kevin Yang
• Other credit
  Photo By: Yunmu Bai
• University
  Royal College of Art

Project XYLO introduces a series of MIDI devices designed for portable everyday music creation, available in three sizes: Sample, Pocket, and MIDI.

The primary design objective is to transform MIDI operation into a gamified, pocket-sized, and social experience, enhancing the on-the-go joy of music composition and beat-making as social intercourses and lowering the professional barriers in music composing.

By connecting each device, users synchronize sampled sounds and customized beats to collaboratively create compositions akin to role-playing part of a band's performance.

Bio
Kevin Yang

With backgrounds in sculpture and product design, Kevin is seeking the commercial balance among functional works of arts, fusing creativity and user-centric solutions that elevate the everyday needs and wants.

By focusing on user experience, interactions and corresponding CMF designs, Kevin is keen to dismantle, rebuild, and transform the mundanes into extraordinaries with inspirational touches and design proficiency.

"Art and design are the intangible languages of humanity, transcending cultural and linguistic boundaries to offer an universal value of appreciation. "