Evil Speaker Buddies from Alex Underwood

Once more, in the chapter of loudspeakers with completely weird designs, we must turn the page and present to you an almost disturbing item, whose name could very well be “Crying children”. Created by the British designer Alex Underwood and showcased at the recent London Design Festival, this speaker model is indeed a very uncanny piece of audio technology that's not going to be too popular.

If you're willing to do some resemblance game, we could say that these freaky speakers Alex named “speaker buddies” are a black and impersonal, almost ghostly representation of South Park's Kenny character... even if there is nothing too funny to that either.

You see, Kenny used to dive quite a lot in these cartoons and looking on your tabletop just to see some speakers that remind so much about a character that's more dead than alive throughout the whole series might feel a little weird.

These evil speaker buddies would definitely be suitable for some aftermarket tuning, and I'm speaking about having them painted - one thing I guess Mr. Underwood has completely missed when he went on with this design.

These speakers have been crafted from expanded polystyrene - therefore they are very light and thanks to the white coloring, they could be the perfect playground for the latent creative designer in you. And that would mean a very nifty idea: just buy some “blank” speakers you can paint on and thus give them a personality of their own, of course in harmony with the setting you plan to have them installed in.

Nevertheless, until such blank speakers finally find their way to the stores shelves, there is one more question: aren't these speaker buddies a tad too close to these speakers created by the Dutch designer Dadara some ten years ago? Time will tell, by all means.

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