The making of Logitech's G-series peripherals

Design Partners, the company responsible for Logitech's G-series, has released a series of images offering a behind-the-scenes look at how the suite of wild gaming peripherals came to be. Interested to see the design process? Check out the galleries below -- we're particularly taken with the image showing a designer hand-crafting the G19's wrist rest.

Galleries

G35 Surround Sound Headset	G13 Gameboard
G19 Keyboard	G9x mouse

[gsk @ Jan 14th 2009 4:11AM]

I'd tap that.

[Tohe @ Jan 14th 2009 7:53AM]

definitely

[RoboDan @ Jan 14th 2009 10:33AM]

Ugly just got uglier

[Wolfbane65 @ Jan 14th 2009 4:26AM]

G19 not G13

[Shinigami @ Jan 14th 2009 4:32AM]

Did they even ask gamers about their opinion? There are always numbers above WADS to choose weapon, but on that picture there are no numbers above. Anti-gamer gaming gameboard?

[Arzach @ Jan 14th 2009 10:08PM]

Yeah this are the "designers" that ditched all the left handed players in one sweep with that gameboard

[aadhu @ Jan 14th 2009 4:45AM]

there are number keys above WADS

http://www.engadget.com/photos/behind-the-scenes-logitech-g19-keyboard/1290181/

[Shinigami @ Jan 14th 2009 5:01AM]

Where?
http://www.engadget.com/photos/behind-the-scenes-logitech-g13-gameboard/1290209/

[aadhu @ Jan 14th 2009 5:15AM]

Here

http://www.engadget.com/photos/behind-the-scenes-logitech-g13-gameboard/1290208/

[wildman_91 @ Jan 14th 2009 8:31AM]

seems like the numbers are only on a conceptual rendering

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/gaming/pc_gaming/mice_keyboards/devices/5123&cl=us,en

[Matt G @ Jan 14th 2009 8:44AM]

The REAL question in this pic
http://www.engadget.com/photos/behind-the-scenes-logitech-g13-gameboard/1290208/

Is what class has 400STR, 1000+ AGI but only 153 STA....

Hunter? Rogue? Though I can't think of a reason either would have 400 STR....

[thethirdmoose @ Jan 14th 2009 9:25AM]

That's 224 AGI...

[Stacky @ Jan 14th 2009 4:45AM]

I really like the series except the mouse.

[Josh @ Jan 14th 2009 5:09AM]

i'm really not digging all these new gaming mouse on the market, the G5 & G7 might be old, but it work better than all these newer POS.

[b @ Jan 14th 2009 5:12AM]

Great Stuff for an Irish company.

[tard @ Jan 14th 2009 8:04AM]

Isn't Logitech Swiss?

[Volker @ Jan 14th 2009 9:03AM]

Logitech Group is Chinese. Logitech Holdings is Swiss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitech

It's easy when you have the internet to find out the truth before you post.

[preilly79 @ Jan 14th 2009 9:22AM]

Design Partners = Irish. Logitech = Swiss. Logitech contract Design Partners to design some of their products.

[theCardinal @ Jan 14th 2009 2:30PM]

All Logitech's R&D for mice is done in Cork, Ireland too.

[1WayJonny @ Jan 14th 2009 8:16PM]

@Volker
It's amazing when someone from the internet makes obnoxious post in reply to a friendly question only to have it thrown back in their face. Did you even read what you posted?

Its was founded in SWISS!!!

HISTORY
Logitech International S.A. was co-founded in Apples, Vaud, Switzerland, in 1981 by two Stanford Masters alumni, Daniel Borel and Pierluigi Zappacosta, and Giacomo Marini, formerly a manager at Olivetti.

[Jack @ Jan 14th 2009 5:23AM]

Look at the state of all that, I pity the person who wants all that junk on their desk.

[anon @ Jan 14th 2009 5:43AM]

i use the mouse and it is awesome...my new best friend...

[lanosian @ Jan 14th 2009 6:09AM]

I pity your old best friend

[Ignatius @ Jan 14th 2009 7:34AM]

What, the G5? He had it coming.

[insky60 @ Jan 14th 2009 7:44AM]

@lanosian

Since when has somebody fondling you all day been a bad thing?

[xValentine @ Jan 14th 2009 6:26AM]

It's a shame Logitech didn't replaced the new gaming keyboard's bulky keys. Those bulky-ugly keys are the only thing that stops me from buying one. (I owned a Lycosa, I've also owned a G15 for about a day, then returned it back cause of those goddamn keys).

[Gert @ Jan 14th 2009 6:30AM]

What's that material in pic http://www.engadget.com/photos/behind-the-scenes-logitech-g9x-mouse/1290244/?

What material do they use to cut out models by hand? Like in pic http://www.engadget.com/photos/behind-the-scenes-logitech-g19-keyboard/1290193/

[lanosian @ Jan 14th 2009 6:49AM]

i would guess it's some sort of foam
we used to make models out of blue foam in uni (or college, whatever you call it)
but looks like they are using a different type of foam, most probably a better quality and more expensive one?

[jinsei888 @ Jan 14th 2009 12:16PM]

in the Industrial Design field, we use renshape, or modulan, or its under other names per brand manufacturer of the high density foam.

[thomas @ Jan 14th 2009 1:06PM]

at my school (cal state long beach)
we have different "grades" of foam, the lowest is softer and less dense which means you gotta work harder for the finsih, the higher "grade" foam is tougher to work with but the finish is much easier.
choose one i guess.

[Koleider @ Jan 14th 2009 7:29AM]

I think it's Cibatool. A weird Resin used because it's very easy to machine, and sand etc... you can get a good finish.

[asdfjio @ Jan 14th 2009 7:52AM]

monstrosity

[Baozer @ Jan 14th 2009 8:02AM]

...talk about hardcore gaming.

[AMiSH PiRATE @ Jan 14th 2009 9:37AM]

you mean they don't just harvest these things from crashed alien space craft?

[Big Wizz @ Jan 14th 2009 10:23AM]

I love my video games just as much as any other red-blooded American, but c'mon.

If any of my friends had this, I'd smack them in the head

[Agent .25i @ Jan 14th 2009 11:17AM]

" I'd smack them in the head. "

If you had these devices, perhaps you would not get pwned all the time, and not have all that built up anger and frustration.
I'm sure your "friends" would appreciate a less violent you. And then you guys could talk about the awesomeness that comes from being an owner of some of the finest gaming peripherals available on the market.

[JWC @ Jan 14th 2009 12:57PM]

Or he could not buy it and "get some" more often.

[nxp3 @ Jan 14th 2009 11:23AM]

I don't know what anyone see in that keyboard. It's the ugliest thing I ever seen since 1980's drumsets.

[Nate @ Jan 14th 2009 12:16PM]

Aah, the classic "plastic alien spaceship" motif.

[Releaux @ Jan 14th 2009 12:54PM]

Fugly. Looks like what people in the 70s thought the future would look like. Seriously, that headset, while probably a function/form compromise, looks like something you'd see in NASA PR photos from the Apollo era.

Wait a second... maybe that makes it cool.

[JWC @ Jan 14th 2009 12:56PM]

I'm less attractive to the opposite sex for just having looked at that. Thanks.

[thomas @ Jan 14th 2009 1:01PM]

any of you guys industrial designers???

[FTY @ Jan 14th 2009 1:07PM]

I really don't know why all the "performance" things have to be so ugly in design. What's wrong of making a performance keyboard look like an Ultrax or something similar, besides, programmable buttons are nice and my guess is, that the d-pad thing is for sliding through options or menus, which really just makes things more complicated and not really useful for gaming (where you need to react fast in most of the situations). The display is also something I'd never use down there. If you have to have a display, make it detachable so I can stick it to the monitor or somewhere inside my FOV or else it's pretty much useless.I'd also like to see low profile keys, shouldn't be too hard manufacturing two models, one with standard the other one with low profile keys.

Right now I'd pick another Logitech Ultrax over this anyday.

[coldwave @ Jan 14th 2009 3:01PM]

Even the IBM Model M I use every day is prettier than this thing. O.o

[feraligatr8 @ Jan 14th 2009 8:27PM]

I want one

[SpazArmy @ Jan 15th 2009 3:21AM]

The 80s called, they want their design back.

[keithwwalker @ Jan 15th 2009 2:57PM]

Buy now and they throw in a Pontiac Vibe or Aztec at no extra cost....

[marianne @ Mar 18th 2009 3:56AM]

EEK! just got much more Yuck!

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