Hybrid Radio

Mathieu Lehanneur designed for Lexon a radio that merges the magic of media with the primitive, blending Digital intelligence with a raw material.

Hybrid Radio
  • 24 January 2014
  • Paris

It was predicted by some that radios would be made obsolete by the arrival of PCs and Smartphones. This however is not the case: Hybrid radio, designed by Mathieu Lehanneur, represents free, invisible and accessible technology.

Mathieu Lehanneur, Hybrid Radio
Mathieu Lehanneur, Hybrid Radio, Lexon

The designer had already laid down the basis of a design vocabulary with Andrea – a living air filter which absorbs undesirable effects of contaminated air by the profusion of manufactured goods – combining the virtues of nature with contemporary technology. Hybrid is therefore a smart object with 2.0 technology partially clad in woven rattan.

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