Love Hultén Designs the Most Beautiful Retro-Futuristic Devices
Love Hultén imagines a retro-futuristic world of gaming and entertainment devices where dials and buttons live on in full glory.
Designer ?Love Hultén’s deft ability to combine the traditional with the futuristic has been long on our radar, an aptitude he’s continued evolving from his studio in Gothenburg, Sweden over the years into a wondrously colorful catalog of one-of-kind, handmade working artifacts imagining an unrealized and alternative future where buttons and dials still rule. Behold, these gaming, audio, musical and communication devices exhibiting a delightful aesthetic evoking the best of LEGO and the cult classic, The Prisoner.
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The Echo Observatory V2 is one part musical instrument, one part screen saver ? a fractal creating device inviting users to visually explore an endless array of mathematically generated patterns via an unlabeled color coded keyboard, through a curved porthole of a screen, complete with zoom, pan and rotate controls.
Love Hultén’s most recent creation, the Pet De Lux, drapes the original design of the Commodore PET 2001 ? a 1977 desktop computer from the golden age of personal computing – in American walnut, complete with the chiclet keyboard and cassette deck of the original intact. The exterior is retro, but a modern CPU resides inside to easily emulate the simple gaming graphics of the Commodore64 and NES catalog.
The purpose of the BOB180 is rather mysterious at first glance, a tripod ...
Designer ?Love Hultén’s deft ability to combine the traditional with the futuristic has been long on our radar, an aptitude he’s continued evolving from his studio in Gothenburg, Sweden over the years into a wondrously colorful catalog of one-of-kind, handmade working artifacts imagining an unrealized and alternative future where buttons and dials still rule. Behold, these gaming, audio, musical and communication devices exhibiting a delightful aesthetic evoking the best of LEGO and the cult classic, The Prisoner.
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The Echo Observatory V2 is one part musical instrument, one part screen saver ? a fractal creating device inviting users to visually explore an endless array of mathematically generated patterns via an unlabeled color coded keyboard, through a curved porthole of a screen, complete with zoom, pan and rotate controls.
Love Hultén’s most recent creation, the Pet De Lux, drapes the original design of the Commodore PET 2001 ? a 1977 desktop computer from the golden age of personal computing – in American walnut, complete with the chiclet keyboard and cassette deck of the original intact. The exterior is retro, but a modern CPU resides inside to easily emulate the simple gaming graphics of the Commodore64 and NES catalog.
The purpose of the BOB180 is rather mysterious at first glance, a tripod ...
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