While some vintage technology gets permanently relegated to history’s dustbin, sometimes it can stage a comeback. Vinyl records, it seems, never quite went extinct given the humongous number of them still in circulation, while throughout the digital age, a certain nostalgic affection for them developed. Amazingly, my local Whole Foods actually sells vinyl record albums for playing on turntables. Now, it is the album cover that has assumed a higher tech profile. Novelia, a Cambridge UK company, has transformed the always expressive but essentially static sleeve into an interactive package that not only stores the record but can be used as a creative tool. The company’s printed…
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