Diski

2024 ✦ collection design ✦ model making ✦

I designed a CD ecosystem for modern music listeners.

In the era of being able to stream any song at the press of a button, CDs are fading out. This project aims to bridge the gap between the two media forms. A disk changer that holds 8 disks (and their cases), remembers which songs are your favorites, and lets you choose what you want to shuffle gives listeners more freedom in hopes of making physical media more desirable to younger generations.

This collection also includes a CD player for smaller spaces with a visible disk and a slot for the case, as well as modular disk storage.

Behind each CD is a double-click mechanism, so you can easily push in and it pops out. Satisfying!

I wanted to make my model as tactile as the real product would be. I used keyboard switches for the buttons and detented potentiometers for the knobs, and the rest of the touchpoints were 3D printed to move as well.

Behind the Scenes

I divided the main body of the disk changer into 6 parts to fit on my 3D printer, and added interlocking keys for easy assembly.