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Hi-fi

The pursuit of accuracy, and the point where it turns into faith.

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Walkman

Sony Design Team · 1979

The Walkman is industrial design as behavioural intervention — minimal, specific, and consequential.

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Dieter Rams

Functionalism was not a style Rams chose — it was the only way to make electronics legible, durable, and scalable in postwar Europe.

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