It’s Friday, and I always look for things that bring joy on a Friday. And nothing brings more joy than a wedding, wait, no, that’s not entirely true. Nevertheless, here is a wedding invitation the folds out to become its very own record player. Very clever.
This, however, isn’t one of those cheesy cards that plays a craptastic tune when you open it. The card folds into a real record player that plays an original song on a real flexi disk record.
The song is available for free download here.
According to the designer Kelli Anderson:
The resulting booklet is comprised of a cover, two inner pages, a letterpressed band (with instructions and a tear-off RSVP postcard), and a flexdisc on a screwpost. The recipient bends the second page of the booklet back to create a tented “arm.” With the needle placed, they then carefully spin the flexidisc at 45 RPM (ish) to hear the song. The sewing needle travels the length of the song and produces the sound. Its vibrations are amplified by the thin, snappy paper to which it is adhered. To keep the needle down on the record, we reinforced the back of the “tent” with a spray-mounted half page of heavier cardstock. To reduce friction between the acetate flexidisc and the backing cover, we had the inside of the booklet laminated to be slick and conducive to hand-spinning.
I’m usually opposed to “clever” wedding invitations, but I will make a rare exception in this case.
[Source : Kelli Anderson]
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