Cassette Lamp Is a Shining Ode to Analog [Video]

Cassettes are variety of strangely attractive all alone, in a bulky, obsolete type of way-so adding a super bulb behind a box of them could only be pretty. The Tape Lamp does just that-and surprisingly non-tackily, too.

Transparent House -the design team behind the Tape Lamp-wanted a physical marker to the rapidly disappearing medium. Tapes! People used to cherish the (now somewhat alien) plastic things. The team opted for microcassettes in preference to standard audio tape for classy purposes, but 100 of them packed into a plexiglass frame remains a visual treat. Plus-wind every one backwards and forwards however you’d wish to change the look of your lamp. The feeling of my finger in a kind of spiky little cassette holes is already bringing back a wave of analog nostalgia. [ Tape Lamp via Yanko ]

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This post is tagged: audio tape, cassettes, holes, marker, microcassettes, Nostalgia, preference