
Svennson 49
Work - Auxy
Year - 2023 to 2025
Svensson 49 is a digital keyboard with expressive sounds, a playful looper, and a powerful speaker. No menus to dive through. No manual to read before you start. Just play, loop, and explore your musical ideas.
Encourage exploration. Not perfection.
Creating music (creating in general) demands a certain amount of exploration and playfulness. Creating constraints is sometimes the way of becoming more creative and improve learning. Too many options can take the user away from the core of the art. The core theme with Svensson 49 was to encourage exploration by limited functionalities and a simple and intuitive loop system.
The industrial design was aimed to create a quality build with warmth and a certain amount of craftsmanship. Creating a connection to classical instruments more then a conventional keyboard. Wood and metal for the feeling. Weighted keys and calm interface to not steel the focus from what matters. Testing, learning and creating.

Clarify the value proposition
As in most design projects many, many variations were sketched, discussed and tested. In this project a lot of the discussions was around how much functionalities from the core intention of the product we wanted to implement. How big of speaker can you integrate before it becomes more of a speaker then a keyboard? When is feature vital and when is it clutter?







