If you think about the word ’speakers’, what do you think of first? The object or the people? It seems Sherwood Forlee couldn’t really tell them apart, so he designed Speak-er, the speak bubble shaped speakers.

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So that’s “why speakers are called what they are.”

(source: yankodesign.com)