“ Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question ” – e . e . cummings
“ A perfection of means and a confusion of aims seems to be our biggest problem ” – Albert Einstein
Two of my favorite design quotes , they make you use your brain . How can we open up the question to identify a juicier problem to solve ? And , are we solving the right problem ?
The inspiration for The Holeyboard Dragonfly :
I was helping my friend Cody build an airplane in his garage . Yep , the real deal : build it and fly to exotic destinations , live a life of adventure . A project like that is as much about dreams as it is about making them real . He was working on a rudder pedal assembly and I picked it up and it was beautiful . Crafted out of formed and punched aluminum with a captivating red anodized finish , it was strong and super light . It hit me like a freight train — this is the next Holeyboard .
It ’ s like songwriting for me , sometimes you come up with the melody first , sometimes the lyrics . For product design , sometimes it ’ s a material , sometimes it ’ s a mechanism . Always , there is a problem to be solved .
So , I started sketching and thinking about materials and it just wasn ’ t enough .
What are musicians struggling with ? People ask me all of the time which Holeyboard is right for them . Being a dedicated guitarist in a fantastically unknown band and a pedal junkie , I can relate . We follow the muse , sometimes it ’ s a crazy combination of effects and sometimes it ’ s pairing down to the minimum . I realized that flexibility is a problem , we are not stagnant as guitarists , we grow and change , why shouldn ’ t our pedalboard do the same ?
So , with a worthy problem statement at last , the journey is often the best part : “ Create a lighter , stronger pedalboard out of aircraft grade aluminum that can expand and contract depending on the mood and needs of the guitar player ”.
Two years later , after many hours of sketching , building and of course , playing guitar , Dragonfly was born , patents issued . Now on to Dragonfly 2.0 . . .
- CHRIS TRIFILIO
“ Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question ” – e . e . cummings
“ A perfection of means and a confusion of aims seems to be our biggest problem ” – Albert Einstein
Two of my favorite design quotes , they make you use your brain . How can we open up the question to identify a juicier problem to solve ? And , are we solving the right problem ?
The inspiration for The Holeyboard Dragonfly :
I was helping my friend Cody build an airplane in his garage . Yep , the real deal : build it and fly to exotic destinations , live a life of adventure . A project like that is as much about dreams as it is about making them real . He was working on a rudder pedal assembly and I picked it up and it was beautiful . Crafted out of formed and punched aluminum with a captivating red anodized finish , it was strong and super light . It hit me like a freight train — this is the next Holeyboard .
It ’ s like songwriting for me , sometimes you come up with the melody first , sometimes the lyrics . For product design , sometimes it ’ s a material , sometimes it ’ s a mechanism . Always , there is a problem to be solved .
So , I started sketching and thinking about materials and it just wasn ’ t enough .
What are musicians struggling with ? People ask me all of the time which Holeyboard is right for them . Being a dedicated guitarist in a fantastically unknown band and a pedal junkie , I can relate . We follow the muse , sometimes it ’ s a crazy combination of effects and sometimes it ’ s pairing down to the minimum . I realized that flexibility is a problem , we are not stagnant as guitarists , we grow and change , why shouldn ’ t our pedalboard do the same ?
So , with a worthy problem statement at last , the journey is often the best part : “ Create a lighter , stronger pedalboard out of aircraft grade aluminum that can expand and contract depending on the mood and needs of the guitar player ”.
Two years later , after many hours of sketching , building and of course , playing guitar , Dragonfly was born , patents issued . Now on to Dragonfly 2.0 . . .