retrofy your digital tunes with this vinyl player-inspired music device - Designboom

‘Re: RETRO Player’ pairs bluetooth tech with vintage aesthetics

Designers Ha Lim Kim, Park JooHyung, Ryukyung Lee, and YoonJeong Lee instrumentality america down representation lane with their ‘Re: Retro Player’ concept. Sporting a boxy plan and circular plates, the music device evokes the signifier of vinyl LP players without incorporating their old-school mechanism. Instead, the plan squad combined the nostalgic merchandise with modern-day technologies successful enactment with today’s idiosyncratic interests.

To enactment it otherwise, 1 tin bask the retro acquisition without the expected ‘inconvenience’ of having to physically alteration a grounds each clip and adjusting the needle onto the spinning disc, resulting successful the crackly yet oddly satisfying dependable effects. These features are replaced with a bluetooth pairing technology, allowing users to sync up their phones to the instrumentality and statesman playing high-definition songs.

all images courtesy of Ha lim Kim, Park JooHyung, Ryukyung Lee, and YoonJeong Lee

an acquisition that is ‘familiar but different’

Diving into the specifics, the ‘Re: Retro Player’ is composed of a main integer show resembling the existent vintage CD plates and needle. Once a instrumentality is paired with the music box, the CD-shaped show tin task the medium oregon opus screen of the way being played, a motion to the aged vinyl aesthetic. The designers utilized physics ink to activate those visualizations, adding an augmented reality-inspired furniture to the wide aesthetic.

Moreover, if the paired instrumentality is retired of reach, users tin run and power the instrumentality utilizing a small-sized show fitted astatine 1 broadside of the CD plate, evoking a needle tip. Finally, some a regulator and greenish fastener are acceptable up astatine the beforehand of the Record Player to set the measurement and crook connected bluetooth, respectively. As the quadro writes, this acquisition is ‘familiar but different.’

evoking nostalgic shapes portion offering modern-day features 

the CD-plate components relation arsenic integer displays 

inspired by the vintage LP grounds players

projecting each integer tune’s representation cover 

project info:

name: Re: Retro Player

product & graphic design: Ha Lim Kim, JooHyung Park, Ryukyung Lee, and YoonJeong Lee

project absorption & 3D work: JooHyung Park

UI design: Ryukyung Lee, YoonJeong Lee

coloring & worldly selection: Ha Lim Kim