There’s a moment in every designer’s journey when vision collides with possibility - when the dream of an interior, sculpted from emotion and precision, must contend with the realities of materials, packaging, and technology. At Warwick Acoustics, we believe those constraints should no longer exist. Whether you design with pride or with restraint - loud or quiet, celebrated or concealed, we exist to let your vision sing freely.

That’s a bold claim. But let me explain why it’s true.

In luxury automotive design, I’ve seen two distinct philosophies evolve. There is proud design - where technology is a hero. Screens, speakers, head-up displays, lighting… all choreographed to perform in harmony. Then, there is shy tech design - where technology becomes invisible, folded gracefully into the fabric of the cabin, letting the materiality and form do the speaking. Both are beautiful, both deeply valid. But both have been constrained for too long by one stubborn factor: the bulk, weight, and depth of conventional speakers.

That’s where Warwick Acoustics has changed everything.

Our patented electrostatic speaker technology, incredibly thin at just 1mm and 90% lighter than anything we’ve seen in the past century, has rewritten the rules. Suddenly, a designer’s hand is free again. These panels can be shaped, curved, and hidden in places where traditional audio hardware simply could not be packaged. They allow us to sculpt sound, not just install it!

“World first” is a phrase we designers - (I feel I am a designer at heart) - hear too often, but this is genuinely revolutionary. This technology doesn’t just sound different; it behaves differently. It frees us to integrate pure audio performance wherever we imagine - across surfaces, within trim, or behind materials without compromising on aesthetics, safety, or space.

I’ve watched interior designers breathe a sigh of relief when they realise what this means. The fight between design and packaging is over.

Next year, our technology will launch with a global luxury marque, a vehicle defined by the beauty of minimalism, by its quiet confidence. Its design language conceals technology to an almost poetic degree. And yet, every hidden speaker will deliver breathtaking sound, seamlessly integrated behind trim and fabrics.

And here’s where it gets magical: because of how electrostatic speakers move air, Warwick Acoustics’ panels require far fewer perforations. Imagine covering speakers with near-solid leather, fabric, or wood and not only retaining acoustic brilliance but enhancing it. My colleague and Warwick Acoustics CTO, Ben Lisle, discovered that natural wood coverings can actually improve sound dispersion, transforming what was once a design compromise into a design advantage. Picture a dashtop carved from a single piece of open-pore wood, beneath which lives a perfectly tuned soundbar, an elegant symphony of form and function.

That’s design from the heart.

But let’s not forget the proud side of the equation, the part of me that wants to celebrate this technology, to make it visible and iconic. There’s something deeply emotional about letting people see what makes their experience so special. Our electrostatic panels, those intricate hexagonal cells, aren’t just functional; they’re art. And when you add colours, lights, movement…well, it just elevates this proposition into orbit.

In collaboration with the brilliant minds at studiokurbos, our German automotive design house partners, we’ve envisioned proud interiors where the speaker system takes centre stage, a glowing ribbon of sound integrated into the dashboard, subtly illuminated, announcing itself with quiet confidence. It’s not just audio - it’s sculpture, alive with purpose.

Andreas Kurbos, the founder of studiokurbos, said it perfectly when I first met him and when he first encountered our technology:

“I hear about revolutionary tech every day. But this was different, it wasn’t iterative, it was epoch-making. For the first time, I could deliver a design free from the physical burdens of sound.”

That struck me. Because in our world, emotion is the ultimate measure of success. Whether you craft a cabin where technology disappears into the soul of the materials, or one that proudly declares its innovation, the goal is always the same: ‘to move people’, to let them truly ‘hear it all’.

Warwick Acoustics doesn’t just change how we design; it changes how we feel about design. No longer must we fit speakers into our vision, sound now becomes part of the vision itself.

This isn’t the evolution of car audio. It’s liberation.

And for us designers, proud or shy, it’s a beautiful thing.

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Written by a self-professed creative designer