In the 1960s/1970s Clauss Dietel did a number of wackier designs for the "Heliradio" company:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/HELIRAD...ach-Oberfrohna
some of which very much embraced the 'space-travel' zeitgeist popular in the West at the time.
[I must admit to being fascinated by the whole issue of industrial design of consumer goods: seeing how style was blended with modern materials to generate the 'wow-factor' and then (sometimes) tuned to minimise production-costs. Ekco's use of press-moulded Bakelite radio-casings in the 1930s being another good example. Names like Raymond Loewy Virgil Exner and Wells Coates tend to only mean anything to students of design though...]