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Yuri Suzuki is a London based designer who works with sound. Before getting into design and technology, Suzuki was a musician and a DJ. When he started to get into design, he wanted to keep his musical background in his career, so he got into sound design. He is now a partner at Pentagram, which is the largest independently owned design studio in the world, and is also on faculty at the Royal College of Art in London.
Suzuki’s work makes people think about how they perceive sound in the world around them. One of my favorite projects that he introduced in his presentation was the Sound of Earth. The project is a large black globe with grooves that mimic the Earth’s topography. A needle plays the globe like a record and as it passes over each country, it plays sounds and music that Suzuki recorded on his phone while visiting the country.
Suzuki’s presentation is a brief overview of several of his projects. He introduces the project, then shows a video to demonstrate it. The video component was definitely an effective presentation method because he covered so many projects that there is no way that he can bring them to his presentations. Each overview was so brief that I don’t feel that I got an amazing idea of the process behind each piece through the presentation, but it certainly gives the viewer a great idea of the scope of his work.

Yuri Suzuki’s website can be accessed here: https://yurisuzuki.com/

Suzuki’s presentation at the Eyeo Festival (2015)