iF Design Awards 2016 / Awards / News / Sony Design / Sony

High-Resolution Audio Headphones

h.ear on

We received iF gold award for
iF design award 2016.

Feature Design
h.ear™
Letting listeners find their own style, in new classics

Jury Statement:

People love design for sound reproduction, especially if it's easy to deploy and to pack away again. Designers know well how difficult it is to mate together different materials of similar color, and one of the great challenges in product design is successfully combining two synthetic materials and adding some metal into the mix. However, it's a task that the h.ear on headphones achieve in a sublime fashion. With its sophisticated and subtle material contrasts, this product delivers a unique character without sacrificing sound quality.

Feature Design
h.ear™
Letting listeners find their own style, in new classics

Smart DIY Kit

MESH

We received iF gold award for
iF design award 2016.

Jury Statement:

MESH takes a playful and accessible approach to programming and to logic and hardware/software interaction, two topics of growing importance. The product enables users to interact directly with the virtual and physical world by trial and error. It has a very consistent, straightforward, simple and clean design, which underscores the function of each element and is also reflected in the design elements of the software. Two words: great work!