Categories / Design and Interiors, Music

Abbey Road Studios product range

Abbey road notebook

Earlier this year there were several reports that the historic Abbey Road Studios were up for sale. EMI quickly denied this but they are using the commercial potential of the studios in another way: in a new range of product inspired by their reputation and heritage. 

At the moment the range includes t-shirts, laptop cases and notebooks with plans to expand this through 2010. While you can get t-shirts and cases with 'Abbey Road Studios' emblazoned across them, some of the other products have a less immediately obvious link to the studios. For example, the notebook pictured, is inspired by the red boxes used by EMI to store professional recording tape.

The notebooks cost £10, the laptop cases cost £20 while the t-shirts cost £25 each. 

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Categories / Design and Interiors, Music

Wednesday Garden’s cassette notebooks

Wednesday Garden cassette

Every week a designer seems to come up with a new way to reinvent the humble cassette tape. The latest guise are these cassette notebooks made by Wednesday Garden

The notebook is the actual size of a cassette tape and comes in four different designs, each with a different style of cassette on the cover. To complete the illusion, the notebook comes in its very own clear cassette-like case. Plenty of space to write down all your ideas for new mix tapes too, with 100 blank pages per book. 

Wednesday Garden are a Thai company and each notebook costs 120 Thailand Baht. That works out at roughly just over £2. 

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via Designboom