Shr.d 壁挂式黑胶唱机 by Shiwen Huang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 音频与声音设备设计 Competition Category.

铜音频产品· 2021

Shr.d 壁挂式黑胶唱机

by Shiwen Huang

Client: Bruce Tao

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 音频产品 Category

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The Design

About Shr.d 壁挂式黑胶唱机

Shr.d 是一款专为现代家居设计的壁挂式黑胶唱机。唱机固定于墙面并连接电源,黑胶唱片置于正面,通过旋钮拨杆即可启动播放。机身右侧设有 USB 接口,可播放其他音乐文件,使其兼具家用音响的功能。底座采用 ABS 材质,具备优异的抗冲击与耐刮擦性能,尺寸稳定性好且导热缓慢。Shr.d 的尺寸为长 32.5 厘米、宽 7.9 厘米、高 28 厘米。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Shr.d 壁挂式黑胶唱机是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Shr.d 壁挂式黑胶唱机将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Shr.d 壁挂式黑胶唱机出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: It is a vinyl record player design reimagined in a modern design style. This is the main obvious difference. In functionally, it is a music device that you can hang on the wall. Its elegant style and modern shape make it a beautiful accessory. Users can enjoy the beauty of vinyl music through shr.d. In addition, shr.d can also be used as a beautiful home stereo, users can play more music through usb.
Dimensions & Packaging: length 32.5cm x Width 7.9cm x Height 28cm
Tags: Vinyl, Player, Music, Wall Hanging, Traditional, Modern, Beautiful
Production Technology: Its base is made of ABS, and the heat conduction is slow enough to keep the user from feeling cold. ABS material has strong impact resistance, scratch resistance, dimensional stability, and other characteristics, at the same time both moisture-proof, corrosion resistance, easy processing, and other characteristics. ABS material is also very environmental protection, because of the use of environmental chemicals, so there is no toxicity and no smell, but also to electrical insulation, is a very safe material.
Design Challenge: This is an innovative design with a complex internal structure, and the machining qualification rate is the biggest challenge encountered by this project.
Research: Vinyl was the dominant music format in the 20th century. Because the sound quality of vinyl is the closest to the original sound without distortion, it feels more faithful and perfectly covers people of all ages. A vinyl record is a stereo black celluloid texture. In the development of all kinds of music recording materials such as record, tape, CD, vinyl record sound quality is closest to the original sound, is the pursuit of the realm of music lovers. Plenty of heavyweight performers, conductors, big bands, and vocalists made their debut on vinyl. It has a long life if it is properly preserved.
Inspiration: We get inspiration from the shape of modern products style. The vinyl record player is a music player in the very classical tradition. Our motive was to redesign the record player. So that it can be integrated into the modern home.
Project Duration: The project started in September 2020 in Milan and finished in February 2021 in that place, and was exhibited in China in February 2021.
Operation Flow: First, take out shr.d and install it on the wall, fix it and connect the power supply and shr.d can be used normally. Then take out the user's favorite vinyl record on shr.d, pull the dial lever can play. In addition, there is a USB port on the right side of shr.d. At this point shr.d becomes a beautiful home stereo, users can connect to usb and play other favorite songs.
Team Members: Design leader: Guorong Wu, Designer: Shiwen Huang
Image Credits: Creator (Bruce Tao / Designer)