Source: teenage engineering
teenage engineering
A Stockholm design and electronics company that sells instruments as objects of play and lends its look to partners from IKEA and Panic to Nothing and Rabbit.
- Founded
- 2005
- Industry
- Consumer Electronics
- Headquarters
- Sweden
Key Facts
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Values
stay curious, stay naive, and try new things
Jesper Kouthoofd, Interview (February 2024)
Purpose
I want to make objects that comment on, or raise questions about, why we accept things as they are.
Jesper Kouthoofd, Interview (7 October 2026)
Mission
teenage engineering creates high quality, well designed, electronic products for all people who love sound and music.
teenage engineeringBrand Chronology
teenage engineering will stop making synths, OP-1 included (2026)
teenage engineering will stop making synths, OP-1 included
2026
teenage engineering founder Jesper Kouthoofd says the Stockholm company plans to stop making synthesisers, the OP-1 included.
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Supreme puts its logo on a teenage engineering sampler (2026)
Supreme puts its logo on a teenage engineering sampler
2026
Supreme sells a white EP-133 K.O. II with its red logo across the top, and the teenage engineering sampler sells out on the day of release.
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teenage engineering makes a medieval sampler (2024)
teenage engineering makes a medieval sampler
2024
teenage engineering turns its EP-133 K.O. II into the EP-1320 medieval, with hurdy gurdys, witches, a dragon and Latin labels.
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teenage engineering co-designs the orange Rabbit r1 (2024)
teenage engineering co-designs the orange Rabbit r1
2024
teenage engineering co-designs the orange Rabbit r1, whose look helps it sell out at CES before reviews turn on what the device can do.
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teenage engineering sells a choir of singing wooden dolls (2022)
teenage engineering sells a choir of singing wooden dolls
2022
teenage engineering releases choir, eight singing beech dolls at $249 each, an object closer to an art piece or a toy than to an instrument.
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teenage engineering builds its field series around the OP-1 (2022)
teenage engineering builds its field series around the OP-1
2022
teenage engineering launches the OP-1 field at $1,999 as part of its field series, turning a cult synthesiser into a premium product family.
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Nothing and teenage engineering make see-through earbuds (2021)
Nothing and teenage engineering make see-through earbuds
2021
Nothing launches the transparent Ear (1), designed with founding partner teenage engineering, and finds the visual signature of its brand.
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teenage engineering makes party speakers for IKEA (2020)
teenage engineering makes party speakers for IKEA
2020
teenage engineering designs FREKVENS, a modular party speaker and light range for IKEA, in IKEA stores from February 2020.
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teenage engineering makes a Rick and Morty Pocket Operator (2019)
teenage engineering makes a Rick and Morty Pocket Operator
2019
teenage engineering opened the Pocket Operator to Rick and Morty in 2019, then to Street Fighter, Mega Man and a Google Pixel app.
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teenage engineering puts a crank on the Playdate (2019)
teenage engineering puts a crank on the Playdate
2019
teenage engineering designed the Playdate for Panic and gave the yellow handheld its crank, while the name on the console stayed Panic's.
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teenage engineering launches a $59 synth with Cheap Monday (2015)
teenage engineering launches a $59 synth with Cheap Monday
2015
teenage engineering launched its $59 Pocket Operators with Cheap Monday, a jeans label, and took its look far beyond musicians.
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teenage engineering shows the OP-1 in Frankfurt (2009)
teenage engineering shows the OP-1 in Frankfurt
2009
teenage engineering showed its first product, the OP-1, under glass at Musikmesse 2009, and the synthesiser went on to define the brand.
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Founded
2005
Jesper Kouthoofd, David Eriksson, Jens Rudberg and David Möllerstedt founded teenage engineering in Stockholm in 2005; its first product was the OP-1 synth.