The market has demonstrated that there’s demand for vinyl LPs. In this age of preconfigured playlists, is there also nostalgia for live radio broadcasts? London-based design studio Industrial Facility (a/k/a Sam Hecht and Kim Colin) thinks so.
“Radio behaves inherently differently to playing from pre-defined playlists – it is generated from broadcast media and is generally unexpected content,” the duo write. “For many, this is why radio is like a re-assuring ‘real-time’ companion in the workshop, bedroom, kitchen or bathroom. A lot of the music that gets onto personal playlists is heard first on radio.”
“Radio technology has moved from analog to digital to internet broadcasting, and these three platforms continue to exist simultaneously – for the time being at least. In collaboration with British radio company Pure, we designed a standalone radio that works with all three…
