Designs by n|p|k are included in major design collections, like the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, die Neue Sammlung in Munich, the Design Museum in London and the National Design Museum in New York.

While lower end analogue models such as the YB207 & YB217 clearly carry the styling cues of the YB500, it was the higher end models that drew more attention. The YB500 was arguably the most dramatic of the models to come from n|p|k's drawing board, with it's vertical layout, and clearly defined areas of controls, speaker and display, without use of colour or contrast to break them up from each other. And herein lies the likely reason for adopting a design company to style the new models. The ever-present pressure of cost cutting meant that use of fancy trim and finishes was not an option any more, so to make your radios look interesting needed a new approach. The YB500 was the first of this new breed, and was quickly followed by others.

The YB360 is another product certainly inspired by n|p|k at the very least. Less bold, with a more standard layout, it still carried the distinctive keys, with the horizontal recesses joining them, the large display, and the break up of the front into areas, with creases between them.

The Satellit 900 was scheduled for release in Mid 1996, and again, the keys, sectored front, and large display (Extremely large in this case) all featured. The looks would have been no problem for Satellit enthusiasts, who would have been swayed by it's performance, even if they didn't like the appearance. But the Satellit 900 didn't reach the marketplace. Instead, in 2005, the Eton E1 used the case from the Satellit 900, and new, redesigned electronics, and so continued the use of this basic styling philosophy.

The amusing thing is, while the YB500 was often dismissed by many as no great radio, which I can see being the assumption in weak signal areas, but certainly isn't true in Europe, it's target market, where it performs with aplomb, it has proved to be one of the most influential radios ever made, in terms of it's styling. The YB500 has spawned a series of imitators over a decade after it's launch, with Eton's E10 & E100 as well as the E1, the YB550, an Eton product with a Grundig badge, and Tecsun models which are much the same as the Eton products.

It's also funny that awards were won for dramatic styling of plain black boxes, when to the best of my knowledge, no awards were won by the elegant, stylish, and colourful (achieved by use of chrome trim and metal appliqué panels on a plastic box!) appearance of the Satellit 700.