logitech mm28 speakers with pictures

I was shopping around for a portable speaker set, and ended up getting these, because they looked neat and much harder to break/get entangled than the other sets. They were £30.


logitech mm28 portable speakers

When I got them, I suddenly realised that because the entire front of the speaker is a plain piece of plastic, I could probably paint it or stick something on it, maybe without degrading the sound quality. I tested it by sticking stickers and tape over it and found that it didn't affect the sound noticeably.

I thought about painting it, but couldn't really be bothered, plus I can't paint nicely. So I printed out a photo from my flickr that fitted the shape well, scalpel'd it out and stuck it on. It was moderately fiddly, but not hard. I like them much better now.





The original picture is from our halloween russian doll fruit carving.

I wonder if they ever intended that. Because customised stuff is gaining importance now, products that are easily customisable are going to do better than those that aren't, so you should think about this when you design products. Start with a need, fget halfway toward a product solution, then brainstorm as many single other potential uses that your consumers might create for it - bookstand, flat surface for drugs, outdoors, etc, and see if this can take your design anywhere.

There's obviously a nice analogy to advertising here, with consumers co-creating meaning along with brands.

Adding fluff and colour to this grey box makes it appeal to a whole bunch of new people. If this product incorporated a photoframe somehow, as it could easily do, it would sell well to say teenage girls who wanted to put it on their bedside table and plug their music phone or iPod into it.