A decent wedding invitation makes all the difference, but when it contains a playable record then it enters a whole other realm. Designer, Kelli Anderson created a wedding invitation for her good friends Karen and Mike that is a functioning record player made from paper!
In the booklet-style invitation, a bit of paper-folding amplifies the sound of a sewing needle moving along the grooves of a flexidisc record. The hand-spun record yields a garbled, but scrutable listening of an original song by the couple. It requires a bit of tinkering and folding—effectively championing the inner science-nerd kid in the recipient. The whole thing serves as an interactive packaging for the song—which can be experienced on the paper record player, unscrewed + set on a regular turntable, or enjoyed online (for the non-nerds and/or audiophiles out there.)
Sure, the whole thing is a bit over-the-top, but it’s a beautiful example of printed matter in a digital age. See it in action here:
Published on 15 April 2011 by Agony Uncle