Gateway FX Gaming
Designed for gaming
A bold industrial design language that reflected the era’s shift toward performance-driven aesthetics.
The chassis used sharp, faceted surfaces, high-contrast color blocking, and aggressive venting to visually communicate thermal capability and gaming power, moving away from the conservative gray-box look common at the time.
A grand experience.
A large 17-inch desktop-replacement form factor allowed designers to emphasize scale, with sculpted speaker grilles, illuminated accents, and a forward-leaning stance that suggested speed even at rest. Despite its assertive styling, the layout balanced usability — wide keyboard spacing, clearly defined control zones, and accessible I/O placement — showing an early attempt to merge enthusiast gaming identity with more mainstream industrial design refinement.
FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION
A bold reimagining of a performance driven brand.
CMF Design
To showcase the premium look and feel, the design leveraged brushed aluminum inlay, in addition to the simulated carbon fiber finish, with state-of-the-art IMR technology at that time, while everything else was plastic painted in 50 shades of gray.