Gris Designs OP-S: Teenage Engineering OP-1 leaps into the future
Gris Design OP-S · Source: Gris Design
Gris Design OP-S · Source: Gris Design
Gris Design OP-S · Source: Gris Design
Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 is something of a modern retro design classic – and now it’s inspired a new and genuinely interesting concept by designers Gris Design that combines the style and function of the OP-1 with a fabulous looking phone interface. Check this out.
OP-S
The design flair of Teenage Engineering can be very inspiring. It’s an exercise in ergonomics, style and function that always impresses. Gris Designs decided to take the OP-1 to a new place with their OP-S concept.
Gris Designs call it the “OP-S concept phone” so it’s more than adding a screen to a synthesizer and is perhaps more like adding an OP-1 inspired interface to a phone. But in either case it appears to slide together into a single beautiful device.
Teenage Engineering did something along these lines with the OP-Z. It famously lacks much in the way of buttons, display or external control and expects you to attach it to a phone to access most of the functionality. So why not brings those two facets together? The OP-S provides all that in a much more integrated fashion.
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It looks fantastic. Do you think that it could be a viable product? It seems far too specific for a phone manufacturer to be interested in. Although Microsoft has a foldable Surface product called the Surface Duo which gives you two phone-sized screens in a book format – that’s not a million miles away from this idea.
This a just a concept, not a product but you never know what’s around the corner.
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- Gris Design Instagram.
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This looks amazing. An OP-1 update is long overdue.
Price: $3000
Secondhand price will be: $7000
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What is the pint of announcing and reporting on “a concept”? Without the intention or even ability to make it, it’s no more than a drawing.
Because it’s interesting, looks great and is a conversation starter. I like interesting things even if you can’t buy them.
I’m kinda with Synth head here.
Concept renders are often a dime a dozen. The OP-1 looks great, that’s why it’s in a museum. This concept looks like someone pulled a wonderful design down into the fray of boring smartphone aesthetics. Without adding anything interesting (unless you count “thin touchscreen” and “awkward to play while holding” as interesting 🙂
Yeah I kind of get your point, but it’s not just that I can’t buy it – it doesn’t exist, and no-one is suggesting that it will or even can exist. I would find it interesting to hear from an engineer about what it would take to build; not too interested just to see a photoshop of something without the person who photoshopped it discussing whether it’s possible.