Calico Notes

on stuff and nonsense

design-is-fine:

Hartmut Esslinger, frog design: Sony Wega Concept 51K All in One Stereo, 1976. With turntable, tape player and tuner. 

design-is-fine:

Dieter Rams, Tonarmwaage, “sound arm scale”, 1962.

A tool for calculating the ideal balance for a stylus on a record player. Featured on the cover of Wallpaper Oct 2007. Source Room 606

design-is-fine:

Dieter Rams, Tonarmwaage, “sound arm scale”, 1962.

A tool for calculating the ideal balance for a stylus on a record player. Featured on the cover of Wallpaper Oct 2007. Source Room 606

design-is-fine:

Hans Gugelot and Herbert Lindinger, Braun AG Studio 1, radio and record player, 1956. Ulmer Museum, HfG-Archiv Ulm

design-is-fine:

Hans Gugelot and Herbert Lindinger, Braun AG Studio 1, radio and record player, 1956. Ulmer Museum, HfG-Archiv Ulm

design-is-fine:

Raymond Loewy, designing for german Nordmende, model “Spectra Futura” in 1968. Kleine Lautsprecher, aber Stereo-oho! photos flickr

rocketsandrayguns:

Vintage tone generators and oscilloscopes at the local synthesizer shop.
(from their Instagram feed)

rocketsandrayguns:

Vintage tone generators and oscilloscopes at the local synthesizer shop.

(from their Instagram feed)

Video: Go behind the scenes of the Moog factory


Jay-Z’s Life + Times went behind the scenes of the Moog factory in Asheville, North Carolina. You even get to see a custom Jay-Z ‘Blueprint’ synthesizer being built. WATCH HERE

Video: Go behind the scenes of the Moog factory

Jay-Z’s Life + Times went behind the scenes of the Moog factory in Asheville, North Carolina. You even get to see a custom Jay-Z ‘Blueprint’ synthesizer being built. WATCH HERE

(via thestrutny)

rocketsandrayguns:

Vintage Buchla user manual cover and patch sheet.

More here.

synthhero:

Wow! How rad are these old synth posters! Good work I Heart Synths! See more here

(via synthdactyl)

(Source: synthesthesia, via synthdactyl)

switchedonaustin: EMS Synthi VCS3 Putney

switchedonaustin: EMS Synthi VCS3 Putney

(via rocketsandrayguns)

Behold the Cat Tunnel Couch from Korean designer Seungji Mun — as if our cats weren’t already all up in our sh*t during movie night.

[geekologie]

Behold the Cat Tunnel Couch from Korean designer Seungji Mun — as if our cats weren’t already all up in our sh*t during movie night.

[geekologie]

(Source: thedailywhat)

How electronic music is made

womanhouse:

Shocking Pink was a feminist zine put out by a collective of young women in London, including Katy Watson who died in 2008. As the organiser of last year’s Women’s Library described it ‘Shocking Pink, which ran from the late 1980s to early 1990s, billed itself as a “radical magazine for young women”. Part magazine with serious political coverage, part school-club magazine (if your classmates were hot-headed, deliciously witty, rebel grrrls) this magazine pre-dated riot grrrl zines with its fusion of sass, cultural appropriation and sprawling biro-made doodles all over the margins and type face’.

.pdfs of all the Shocking Pinks available here!

(via hfgl)