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The Sound Optic
The secret life of the home — Hi-fi
The Sound Optic imagines a piece of correspondence that can be read, heard, and seen. A transparent record doubles as a magnifying lens, bringing a small photograph and a recorded message together in one letter.
- Type
- Speculative design
- Format
- Object, letter & packaging
- Theme
- Sound, image & correspondence
An imagined history
The project’s fictional backstory places the Sound Optic in 1947, as a product of the imagined ‘Wuanny Audio Company’. It asks what a mailed voice message might become when listening and looking are designed as one experience.
Read. Hear. See.
A folded paper stand holds the record and photograph. The lens enlarges the image, while the envelope gathers the separate elements into a single, intimate object of correspondence.