Huemen, HARMAN's in-house design agency, brings home 25 iF World Design Awards.
One of the world's largest and most prestigious design competitions, the iF World Design Awards have been recognizing excellence in design for the past 65 years. HARMAN has often been among the companies selected by the competition's panel of design experts, but this year was truly exceptional: HARMAN and its Huemen design team received no fewer than 25 awards for the outstanding and original design of a wide array of products from JBL,
The iF World Design Award contenders are evaluated based on innovation and elaboration, functionality, aesthetics, responsibility, and positioning.
In the Consumer audio product and communications design category, the distinguished award winners include:
JBL QuantumENGINE, a PC-based App that supports the new series of JBL QUANTUM gaming headphones. Designed for gamers, the JBL QuantumENGINE combines audio control, multichannel surround sound, multi-zone RGB illumination, 3D audio virtualization, and even 3D head tracking to deliver the perfect gaming audio solution.
JBL CLUB Series Headphones (950NC, 700BT, One), inspired by music industry pros and featuring legendary JBL Pro Sound and Hi-Res audio. The sleek JBL CLUB 950NC headphones make it easy to leave the world behind for all 35 hours of Bluetooth playtime, thanks to Adaptive Noise Cancelling, the 40mm custom orange driver, comfy over-ear cups and a foldable, portable design. Meanwhile, the JBL CLUB 950NC headphones feature Personi-Fi, a technology that adjusts EQ personalization to listeners' gender, age, and preferences. An iF Design was also awarded to the dedicated My JBL Headphones app, which provides users with the unique experience of their own listening preferences enhanced by their JBL headphones with Personi-Fi technology.
Among HARMAN's other iF award winners in Consumer Audio, JBL was chosen for its Pulse 4, Partybox 1000 and Partybox 100, Link Portable,
Besides the consumer products, HARMAN car aftermarket solutions were also recognized with prestigious design awards, including the JBL Fuse compact subwoofer solution or JBL Club Series Speakers for perfectly blending car audio culture with the night club life. JBL Click, another iF award winner, helps drivers stay focused on the road, putting intuitive phone call controls at their fingertips. Moreover, Infinity took home an award for its Reference Series Amplifiers.
In the Car Audio category, the winners include:
In addition,
These wins for Car Audio design are also a great testament to the fruitful collaboration between the brand designers and their counterparts on the OEM side, ensuring the speaker grille design to integrate seamlessly into the vehicle interior yet staying true to the DNA of the respective audio and car brand.
"This tremendous achievement further demonstrates HARMAN's belief in the value of design as a competitive advantage. I'm incredibly proud of the amount of honors and accolades this group has received over the past several years," said
HARMAN's world-class design agency Huemen is the center of creativity, with over 250 gifted designers delivering best-in-class innovation and meaningful user experiences from the car, to the home, to the office, and everywhere in between.
ABOUT HARMAN
HARMAN (harman.com) designs and engineers connected products and solutions for automakers, consumers, and enterprises worldwide, including connected car systems, audio and visual products, enterprise automation solutions; and services supporting the Internet of Things. With leading brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, Mark Levinson® and Revel®, HARMAN is admired by audiophiles, musicians and the entertainment venues where they perform around the world. More than 50 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and connected car systems. Our software services power billions of mobile devices and systems that are connected, integrated and secure across all platforms, from work and home to car and mobile. HARMAN has a workforce of approximately 30,000 people across the
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