Beresford Bushmaster DAC

[Mr.Ian]

starting to like this version

[Gints]

Has anyone wondered at how all European cars use symbols virtually throughout the dashboard but American cars mostly use words?

Stan not sure about stock for two versions of panels, try to keep 50 different.

[webby]

Great job Werner.

I suspect the mainly stumbling block (with respect to Stan as I understand his desire to retain it) is the Beresford logo within the round cornered rectangle.

I can totally see that Werner has lined up those three elements with top alignment but as the logo is within the aforementioned rectangle it just doesn't look aligned. So, yes it's a tricky decision. I'm sure Stan has got some great ideas from these mockups designs.

[Werner Berghofer]

Thank you for your feedback, guys. I considered some of the valued suggestions you made.




These of course are only iterations, since I didn’t try to emulate the brushed metal surface in the vector based software I used for creating these layouts.



Personally I think the “iconized” black version works best.

Werner.

[Alp]

Werner,

Great job! I think these are all very nice, although the coax and optical icons may be too obscure for some.

[sq225917]

How about

1 COAX 2 and 1 OPT 2

Instead of the above and below the line

[Werner Berghofer]

Martin,

Has anyone wondered at how all European cars use symbols virtually throughout the dashboard but American cars mostly use words?

right, and I also noticed that many American street and traffic signs are much more "wordy" then what can be seen here in Europe. One of my all-time favourites is "Peds xing" for "pedestrians crossing".

Werner.

[Werner Berghofer]

1 COAX 2 and 1 OPT 2

I try to avoid abbrevations and acronyms whenever possible.

Werner.

[Werner Berghofer]

Alastair,

the coax and optical icons may be too obscure for some.

Schiit Audio uses them on their pretty well selling Bifrost DAC.

Werner.

[Jamtoast]

Just look at the Shiit units and how elegant they look, to me at any rate.

Totally agree. Very simple and elegant, and what do you know - a very light square sans serif! I know I keep going on about Helvetica variants but it's no coincidence that you see them EVERYWHERE.