80s product design

To help you find the best electronics, we spent hundreds of hours testing and using hundreds of individual products (a large number, we know, but it’s the aggregate of all our work for each product type’s buying guide you can find on our site). During our testing, we looked specifically for a wide range of feature sets, a high level of usability, and solid product quality. If you’re going to spend money on an electronic, you want to be sure your money doesn’t go to waste. This is why we…

Collection by Diana Budds

Monocle’s range of notebooks are produced with our stationery partner in Germany, while our extensive collection includes everything from pens and pencil cases to bookends and paperweights.

Sony Design | Graphic gallery of TFM-110D FM/SW/MW 3 band radio. This classic black and silver radio was nicknamed the "Solid State 11."

This site provides information on Sony Design. Since its inception in 1961, Sony Design has forged its reputation as a leading and award-winning global design team. Today the value and contribution has expanded beyond purely product design, with a growing business portfolio in new domains such as medical, financial, education and entertainment.

The Walkman (portable compact cassette player) was first created because Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka wanted to be able to listen to music on long flights. The first model of Sony Walkman, the TPS-L2, was released on July 1, 1979. The original Walkman (portable compact cassette player) was created from aluminum, and the later models were made from plastic. Previously, portable cassette machines of various designs were available but they were handheld units and recorders (mostly mono). The…

The full title is Soft Electronics: Iconic Retro Design for Household Products in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. And it’s my kind of thing.

The metal-cased blue-and-silver Walkman TPS-L2, the world's first low-cost portable stereo, went on sale in Japan on July 1, 1979. In June 1980, it was introduced in the U.S.[16] In the UK, it came with stereo playback and two mini headphone jacks, permitting two people to listen at the same time (though it came with only one pair of MDR-3L2 headphones.)

Took this photo of my favourite gadget for a website I just launched: ps-f5.com The record is the Pete Rock remix of Public Enemy's Shut 'Em Down.