Jordi Parra’s Spotify Box

Jordi Parra is an interaction design student at the Umeå Institute of Design, and as a degree project is building a stand alone Spotify box that allows you to listen to your Spotify music without a computer, instead using a gorgeously design player. The video below really gives a great walk-through of the project and the product itself. It looks to be a really fun little undertaking, and I’m a fan of how it uses the great part of digital music and combines it with a more classic, old-world means of interaction. I love how influenced Parra obviously is with 60’s era Eames and Braun products.

The design is beautiful, and the packaging is something I would keep rather than throw away. The whole piece is wonderfully designed; there appears to have been a tremendous amount of planning and research put into it, and the quality and skills invested are obvious.

You can read more about the whole project on Parra’s tumblr site covering the experience and TechCrunch’s write-up.

A few pictures of the finished piece:

(Found via Rasmus Andersson)