Gramaphone CD Player
Inventor: Yong Jieyu + Ama
URL: www.jieyu-design.com
Category: misc
Rating: 3.8/5 (4 votes cast)
Description:
Quite simple and elegant, this CD player grabs inspiration from a classic gramaphone/phonograph. The controls appear to be a bit hidden, and I was unable to determine exactly how it was controlled, but here it is. Designing your own should not be too terribly difficult, except for the trumpet. I wonder where one finds an old one if making your own is not an option?
Description from their site:
A 2 day workshop with Joris Laarman. The aim is to analyse a product in its history and function and redesign it.
A CD player was disassembled and the components rearranged to suit the layout of a phonograph. The speakers are put below the trumpet loudspeaker for amplification. The wooden box is made slightly more spacious then the electrical PCB board needed to achieve bass resonance. The laser pointer is shifted to the top allowing the spin of the CD to be clearly shown.
By bringing back a familiar nostalgic form of a phonograph, the design seeks transport the user back to the golden age of phonographs in early 1900s where sound broadcasting had a magical feel.
