PUBLISHING DATE: APRIL 2015
(Original Submission)
MAKE IT UP REVIVES THE VIDEO STAR
Driven by a creative force to develop a retail space for upcycled items, Make It Up masterminds John Tan, Mitch Shivers, and Miguel Aranaz consequently roused the nostalgia of an era. The retail and maker space is “very much into what we call ‘retrotech’ where we try to give modern functionality to tech products from a bygone era,” says Tan, an industrial designer and faculty member of UP Fine Arts along with Shivers.
The results are these quirky, familiar, yet entirely original inventions that have become mementos of a generation’s straddling between the past and present. It’s the attention of the tech-savvy and pop culturally in-tuned folk who pine for the analog days that give soul to such creations. “Take out Party Line (P10,000) for instance. We embedded new electronics inside a vintage rotary phone to turn it into a bluetooth speaker,” shares Tan. One of their most fascinating products has to be the Mixtape (P1,800), an mp3 player embedded in an old cassette tape. “We designed the motherboard from scratch. While we were at it we added USB charging and SD storage. We even made it possible to select tracks by rotating the spool with a ballpoint pen,” Tan adds.
Drawn to “junk” that triggers happy memories, the designers consequently create functional remnants that mirror its very market – survivors of an influential time’s glam-punk-grunge, neon, and hair spray filled history.
MAKE IT UP REVIVES THE VIDEO STAR
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Driven by a creative force to develop a retail space for upcycled items, Make It Up masterminds John Tan, Mitch Shivers, and Miguel Aranaz consequently roused the nostalgia of an era. The retail and maker space is “very much into what we call ‘retrotech’ where we try to give modern functionality to tech products from a bygone era,” says Tan, an industrial designer and faculty member of UP Fine Arts along with Shivers.
The results are these quirky, familiar, yet entirely original inventions that have become mementos of a generation’s straddling between the past and present. It’s the attention of the tech-savvy and pop culturally in-tuned folk who pine for the analog days that give soul to such creations. “Take out Party Line (P10,000) for instance. We embedded new electronics inside a vintage rotary phone to turn it into a bluetooth speaker,” shares Tan. One of their most fascinating products has to be the Mixtape (P1,800), an mp3 player embedded in an old cassette tape. “We designed the motherboard from scratch. While we were at it we added USB charging and SD storage. We even made it possible to select tracks by rotating the spool with a ballpoint pen,” Tan adds.
Drawn to “junk” that triggers happy memories, the designers consequently create functional remnants that mirror its very market – survivors of an influential time’s glam-punk-grunge, neon, and hair spray filled history.
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