The only people that have seen the other concept drawings are Hugo, Mike and myself. After making our decision I requested that JB take back the other designs - not even the other empeg people have seen them. We had to choose a design at very short notice due to the long lead times in tooling for injection moulding (bear in mind we didn't start this project until the front panel thread on here was well underway). Maybe we'll dig out the other designs for the archives, but for now any discussion of them would be highly non productive :-)

There's no particular symbolism to the aerofoil design - we just kept coming back to it and took that to be an indication that it was the one to go for. The distinctive configuration of the four buttons may well become an empeg trademark, or at least crop up now and again in our literature.

Rob