#BIO Past
ATA 31 by Davorin Savnik
Designer: Davorin Savnik
Client: Iskra, Kranj
1965
Foto: archive of Technical Museum of Slovenia
Courtesy of Museum of Architecture and Design, Design Collection
Iskra’s first original telephones, developed solely on the basis of its own research, were produced in the 1960s. Davorin Savnik was a designer of Iskra’s telephones. The development was reinforced by advances in technology: a printed circuit for installing and connecting electronic components was build into the ATA 31. For the first time, a thermoplastic mass was used for the casing, enabling both a reduction in production costs and greater mechanical strength in the product. ATA 31 telephone was awarded with honourable mention at BIO 2 (1966).
Cf.: Barbara Predan and Cvetka Požar, Iskra non-aligned design 1946–1990, Ljubljana 2009, p. 99.
