Adaptive? For sure. Though how interesting to see something as rationalist (proto-new rationalist?) as 60s B&O products turning out to be adaptive enough for these recombinations.
"All of its working functions are completely different than it might seem, and all of its previous controls are now dead. “Skinning” is the name for the process that makes computer software freely designable. With programs that are skinnable, look, layout and even logic are free to redefinition. The designers have here applied the same principle to the tangible object: A general-purpose personal computer – nothing else is hidden inside the “bootleg objects”- is optimised for a specialized task and gets a new, old, amiable disposition."
Bootleg Objects
[via Becky Ford – thanks!]
Re-skinning objects
Re-engineering design classics made for an analogue world, and updating them for the digital age. “A phono-radio without the phono, a cassette receiver sans cassette, and a non-turning turntable are the first three pieces in a series called ‘Bootleg Ob…