All Articles Tagged Interior Design

Robert Archer | 12/21 05:17 AM,

The Danish speaker company DALI has always been a respected manufacturer of audio products within the audiophile community. This past fall the company introduced its latest speaker the Fazon F5 at the Rocky Mountain Audio Festival in an exhibit conducted by its U.S. distributor The Sound Organisation. The Fazon represents a bit of a departure in design from the company's traditional products and the company's goal with the industrial design was to produce a product that offered a high level of sound quality within a form factor that would complement… View this story

Tom LeBlanc | 03/20 07:50 AM, 1 Comment

Gambling analogies spring to mind when thinking about what Harman International is doing — doubling down, upping its ante, putting its money where its mouth is. The makers of Revel, Mark Levinson, Lexicon and JBL Synthesis began talking about an aggressive marketing effort aimed at expanding its client base during the depths of the recession. That’s a gamble. “We did double-down. We saw a huge opportunity and invested in it. We took the opportunity while others retreated,” says Marc Kellom, VP marketing for Harman High-Performance Audio/Video. Harman’s goal was to… View this story

Tom LeBlanc | 11/18 07:43 AM, 18 Comments

A popular gripe in the custom electronics industry is that architects, builders and interior designers don’t appreciate the need to include electronics in their designs. A gripe in the building and design communities is that guidelines for including electronics aren’t communicated properly. The Council of Home Automation and Residential Technology (CHART) was formed by architects, builders, designers and CE pros to fix all that. CHART’s resources will be available online when its Web site launches in December. The organization aims to provide a forum for communication and guidelines for the… View this story