Retro Video Phones

From the Cultural Archives Concern

I found a bunch of cool retro video phone designs from the previous century while researching industrial design styles for Red Shift Renegades. Thought I'd share them with you here.

What I love about these is how tactile and touchable they are. This is the future I imagined I'd be living in when I daydreamed in school about me being a 45 year old in the far flung year of Two Thousand and Twenty Two.

Who would have thought we'd all be just scrolling on a single universal rectangle of glass and metal. That's it's own kind of cool I guess, but I do love knobs, buttons, and big screens.

-Jake