John Backlund has some interesting ideas about guitar design:

Bruce Bennett, who with his partner Kevin Maxfield, opened J.Backlund Designs in 2007, saw Backlund’s “doodled” guitar designs on a guitar forum in 2001 and, it took some time, but Bennett finally formalized an agreement with Backlund to make his “VERY exciting” retro-futuristic guitar designs. Now these retro-futuristic guitars are on their way to success. As one Chatanooga guitarist put it while he tried out one of J. Backlund Designs, “If I was on stage playing this guitar, I know I would be cool!”