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'symbiosis' is part of the selection of filipino contemporary design production that will be in designboom's curated exhibition 'asia now', at dwell on design in los angeles, june 25th - 27th, 2010.

'symbiosis' filipino designer stanley ruiz has created 'symbiosis', a series of wooden speakers which he developed as part of the 'sounds like' ICFF 2010 off-site event which designer joey roth curated. roth invited nine designers and five musicians to reinterpret his ceramic speakers.
'symbiosis' is a further exploration of ruiz's design approach, combining natural materials  with industrial ones, creating a synthesis in an unusual manner. his interpretation of roth's speakers takes a 'lo-fi' approach to product design. here, ruiz has applied found objects such as a tree log and scrap wood available in his studio space to create the structures in which to house the speakers.

a wood log is used to house a speaker

the raw material

speaker component and log not assembled

stanley ruiz assembling his speaker

electrical components

Sketches

testing out the sound

speaker made from wooden scraps

stanley ruiz assembling the speaker