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2023 ADC Awards - Product Design

Kia Instrument

Agency INNOCEAN Berlin / Berlin + Kia Corporation / Seoul + DaHouse Audio / Berlin + Catalyst / Berlin

Client Kia Corporation

Category

Consumer Electronics

Annual ID

ADC102_PRD012B

About the Work

Our target audience, which consists of innovators and early adopters are constantly looking for new things to inspire them. Kia believe that movement inspires ideas. So we decided to act, by inventing the world’s first musical instrument scientifically designed to inspire. Research shows that the sounds of movement found in nature produce pink noise, a frequency that triggers inspiration. So we set out to capture natural sounds of movement from all over the world and turned these sounds into an original instrument. The compositions were lab-tested on people’s brains using EEG equipment. Proving that the music the instrument produced could put people into a creative state of flow. We then used the instrument to create Kia’s entire sonic identity from a sound logo to a 4-track album. Before finally making the instrument available for everyone to play as a downloadable plugin. Giving the world a way to become inspired again.

2023 Awards

Total Points: 9

Credits

Agency

INNOCEAN Berlin / Berlin

Client / Brand

Kia Corporation / Seoul

Music / Sound Production Company

DaHouse Audio / Berlin
Catalyst / Berlin

Media Distribution Company

Soundcloud / Berlin

Art Director

Kostas Alexandrakis

Copywriter

Rowan El-Gowiny

Designer

Kevin Hipke

Associate Creative Director

Stefano De Luccia

Senior Art Director

Ana Conrado

Senior Copywriter

Nicolas Holz

Account Manager

Jungmoon Kang

Business Director

Danny Frangella
Mark Preston

Creative Neuroscientist

Katherine Templar Lewis

HEAD OF ART

Bruno Oppido

Head of Global Marketing Communications

Kyungmi Lee

Junior Art Director

Seine Kongruangkit

Junior Copywriter

Giovanna Pereira

Senior Producer

Allison Markert

SVP Global Chief Brand Officer & Chief Experience Officer

Artur Martins

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