{"id":587922,"date":"2025-09-25T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/?p=587922"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:15:02","slug":"nik-bentel-debuts-the-playfully-clever-speaker-bag-and-mixer-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design-milk.com\/nik-bentel-debuts-the-playfully-clever-speaker-bag-and-mixer-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Nik Bentel Debuts the Playfully Clever Speaker Bag and Mixer Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pairing together two typologies that might seem entirely opposed can either be a complete disaster or utter success. Nik Bentel Studio’s<\/a><\/strong> recently launched The Speaker Bag and The Mixer Bag<\/strong><\/a> appears to be the latter. The two \u201caccessory\u201d portable speakers meld the formal qualities of current fashion trends with increasingly powerful and compact audio technology.<\/p>\n

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The functional correlation of these two items actually makes sense if one were to look back at how the boomboxes of the mid-1980s were carried. Like with any handbag, a handle was essential for easily transporting this mobile device. Bentel and his team played up the near geometric contour of this component \u2013 not unlike the Tati Bag<\/a> they released a few years ago \u2013 in both the mono-material black and translucent acrylic shell variants. In this case, it’s no longer tensile but rigid instead.<\/p>\n

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Across his offering of whimsical items for dress and the home, the designer is known for accentuating the graphical, almost semiotical, qualities of recognizable shapes. While the PC Folder wallet cheekily takes a digital folder off the screen into one\u2019s hands, Capitalism Knife: Sapphire satirizes the associations many of us have with credit cards and what these seemingly mundane but ultimately powerful objects represent. The early postmodernists must be pleased.<\/p>\n

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The Speaker and Mixer Bags are perhaps less explicit in their cultural critique and more clever in their ontological formation. While the former is all white and somewhat see-through (perhaps it has nothing to hide), the latter is more stern with its all black, near monolithic, presence. As their names suggest, one is a speaker, and the other is an \u201con-the-go\u201d mixer. Its complex, maybe even proprietary, mechanics are hidden. The speaker\u2019s wiring has become so straightforward that it has become aesthetically pleasing. There\u2019s far less of a need to conceal its functionality.<\/p>\n

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