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"Bag" Radio

Designed 1981
Designed by Daniel Weil (Argentine (active England), born 1953) Made by Parenthesis, Ltd., London (1982–1990)
Daniel Weil's "Bag" radio freed the inner workings of a common radio by housing them in a clear plastic sleeve decorated with brightly colored graphics. These components become part of the object's decoration, a result which subverts the notion of the rectangular black box commonly associated with audio equipment in the 1980s.

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