Diego Báez | Industrial & UX Designer

Case study  ·  Product design  ·  2024

PACE Travel Guitar

A headless, semi-hollow travel guitar built to survive checked luggage — modeled in Autodesk Alias and Rhino, then built by hand.

PACE headless travel guitar prototype — hand-built physical model photo 1 from the workshop, by industrial designer Diego Báez

Year
2024

Type
Personal project — designed & hand-built

Discipline
Industrial & product design

Software
Autodesk Alias, Rhino 3D, Blender, Photoshop

The brief

This project grew out of the challenges of traveling with heavy guitars, fitting them into aircraft cabins and avoiding damage like broken headstocks.