TP 2

A re-working of Rams' TP 1 issued in the previous year, the TP 2 makes use of the T 31 pocket radio in conjunction with the P 1 battery operated record player. The T 31 was a technically modified version of the 1958 T 3 radio designed by Rams in collaboration with the HfG Ulm, the school of design responsible for establishing modernist standards upon which Braun Design was constructed. Alongside the studio 2 , the TP 1 and TP 2 designs present the earliest instances of Braun systems design, an approach central to the philosophy of the HfG. The close connection to the HfG manifest in the TP 2 is emblematic of a broader conceptual debt.