We’re eager to report an observation of a recent microtrend in design and engineering: fanciful and/or silly concept record players. Charlie Pyott’s ‘Linos’ design is a turntable about the scale of a family-size candy bar, with extremely useful digital connectivity, while Rhea Jong’s ‘Void’ prototype has the record floating in mid-air while a clown nose apparently drives around the grooves. Beyond their fetish qualities, the fact that young designers are critically engaged with the idea of solving the record player is massively encouraging, for it leads one to believe that a new generation believes it to be a necessary object. Please have a look at the shop, where you’ll see that Free News Projects feels the same way.

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