I must say, this blog entry started out as one about worst radios, but it quickly changed to a top radio.
The Tune 'N Radio was created by Dutch designers at Wouter Geense Design Studio. It is a basic FM-radio that people have to finish themselves, in order to make the product functional within their own personal perception. An antenna has to be chosen and attached, holes for the sound have to be drilled, the sound and tuning button have to be made functional. At first the image of this personalised radio never really appealed to me. Perhaps this was due to the fact that the particular radio I looked at was personalised to suit somebody that was not me. The more I looked into the idea, and pictured it in an environment that belonged to me and thought about the individualised function buttons, the more I became fond of it. The reason why it quickly became a top radio was the fact that the basic radio becomes a canvas which people can decorate and by doing so, bond with their product. It restores the sense of emotional and personal attatchment people once had with radios. Although not quite the same as the attatchment one would form during the great depression, where the radio was something that was treasured for being a medium of personal involvement and distraction from troubled times, it still has a general warmth about it that distinguishes it from the many forms of ready music.
Contemporary radio design has lost almost all it's character, if my everyday radio happened to break I wouldn't have second thoughts about keeping the broken thing around, but the 'Tune 'N Radio would be one of those posessions I'd sneak out to save from the nature strip after mum insists on clearing out the trash.
The Tune 'N Radio was created by Dutch designers at Wouter Geense Design Studio. It is a basic FM-radio that people have to finish themselves, in order to make the product functional within their own personal perception. An antenna has to be chosen and attached, holes for the sound have to be drilled, the sound and tuning button have to be made functional. At first the image of this personalised radio never really appealed to me. Perhaps this was due to the fact that the particular radio I looked at was personalised to suit somebody that was not me. The more I looked into the idea, and pictured it in an environment that belonged to me and thought about the individualised function buttons, the more I became fond of it. The reason why it quickly became a top radio was the fact that the basic radio becomes a canvas which people can decorate and by doing so, bond with their product. It restores the sense of emotional and personal attatchment people once had with radios. Although not quite the same as the attatchment one would form during the great depression, where the radio was something that was treasured for being a medium of personal involvement and distraction from troubled times, it still has a general warmth about it that distinguishes it from the many forms of ready music.
Contemporary radio design has lost almost all it's character, if my everyday radio happened to break I wouldn't have second thoughts about keeping the broken thing around, but the 'Tune 'N Radio would be one of those posessions I'd sneak out to save from the nature strip after mum insists on clearing out the trash.
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ReplyDeleteCynthia Tang
It's really creative and imprssive. As we don's use radio for it's original purpose, the radio should give us some add value. it is such a nice break through. by personalizing the radio, people want to buy and use it.
ReplyDeleteRichard