Desk Radio
Desk Radio is a concept for a small tabletop radio by David Knop of the Berlin studio issue design, drawn to research proportions, surface and the play between physical controls and a screen, and never built: a slab of stone-like grey with a screen strip across the top, a fold-out stand behind, a speaker grille of drilled holes, and an interface of two buttons and one large dial, all made of the same material as the body, the dial doing the work from volume to tuning depending on the button pressed. In the studio's own words: "Its form factor is partly inspired by the Braun HiFi collections of the 60s and 70s, designed by Dieter Rams. This applies to the speaker cover and the clear layout design, for example." The studio calls it a design sketch and lists no client for it; a design magazine published it in September 2022 as Radio Desk, the name the via post of August 2023 and the press the studio links all use, while the studio's own pages call it Desk Radio, the name the card takes.
The card is the third of the post's four frames: the grey slab propped on its stand on a grey ground, the screen strip showing a station, a track and the time, the frequency 93.6 in outline figures, the big dished dial and the two oval buttons in a row beneath, the drilled grille at the lower right and a single yellow green button at the top corner.
David Knop
David Knop is an industrial designer, inventing things at issue design in his own bio's words, the Berlin studio he runs with Nicolai Thoma for tech driven products and user centred interfaces, with clients such as Ableton, Sennheiser and Yamaha on its own list.
Designed by @davidsstudy. Seen via @minimal_lemonade.
The picture comes from this post on Instagram.
Researched September 2026. I credit each piece as carefully as I can; if you know more about this one, message me on Instagram.