Atasco by Abel Jiménez
Cars, cars and more cars…There is a Car Jam! (Atasco in Spanish).
Atasco!! is an easily deployed zine for children by Abel Jiménez, a freelance illustrator and graphic designer based in Valencia.
But there is more. Abel Jimenez and Marta Insa manage Paiorfa, a zine publishing project for children in collaboration with artists and illustrators (coming soon on this blog).
Today we love these cool t-shirts from COS. We always find nice pieces at their childrens collection.
Craftwoods
How do you want to travel?
Do you want to go by boat?
By bus?
By car?
These fun and elegant wooden toys by Craftwoods for Makers & Brothers will take you wherever you want.
Have a nice trip!
Abitacolo: Bruno Munari’s Kid Space Machine (1971)
Munari’s abitacolo is a place to hang clothes, store toys, affix art and to sleep.
It’s adaptable to the personality of the inhabitant, at every moment transformable
Munari described it this way:
two meters high
it’s made of steel with an epoxy skin
it’s a structure reduced to the essentials
a space delimited and yet open
adaptable to one or two poeple
it can even hold twenty
although this is not recommended because
of the difficulty of moving
it weighs fifty-one kilos
it’s two meters wide by eighty centimeters
it’s a large object that casts no shadow
it’s an inhabitable module
it’s a habitat
it contains all personal things
it’s a container of microcosms
it’s a placenta of plastic-coated steel
a place to meditate
and at the same time
a place for listening to music that you like
a place to read and study
a place to recieve visitors
a place to sleep
a lair, light and transparent
or closed
a space hidden in the midst of people
a real space
your presence renders furnishings superfluous
dust doesn’t know where to settle
it’s the minimum but gives the maximum
numbered but unlimited
habitat is the environment
adaptable to the personality of the inhabitant
at every moment transformable
- bruno munari, codice ovvio (1971)
Via rolu
Veo Veo: Mon Oncle
When Marc Sardà and Mon Oncle get together, they can not avoid talking about design, play and imagination.
These conversations are the starting point of the new Mon Oncle SS 2013 campaign entitled:
VEO VEO: What do you see?
Check out the great videos that they launched onto social networks, a special I see I see game.
And here is the collection. Besides bow ties and collars, we will find cloth toys, aprons, pendants, medals …
a handgrip of swords for different kind of stick
a horse’s head to put on the broomstick
and of course, the snake, the ballerina, the castle, the train…
It’s going to be a fun summer!
(via Kickan & Conkers)
Dia de Sant Jordi/Saint George’s Day
Today is a day of dragons and roses, knights and princesses,
Books also go for a walk. The imagination has invaded the streets.
Happy Saint George’s Day!
3- Andrew Lyons
(all via Pinzellades al món)
Harriet’s Haberdasherry by Harriet & daughters
Today we love these delicate clothes from Harriet’s Haberdasherry.
They design & handsew bespoke, singular & small batch natural clothing for children & babies.
Their shop here
UOCU: flexibility, change and sustainability
No tools are needed to create the various pieces fo furniture produced by UOCU. Prefabricated elements made of carboard are simply joined together with tensioning tapes (there are 9 different colors for customize the furniture).
Easy to handle for children, with no sharp edges and made from recycled or recyclable materials. Good design for kids and adults alike!
via Monkeyzen
Dream car by huzi design
What’s your dream car? Do you look for cool design? Sleek aesthetics? Smart engineering? Why can’t a dream car have graffiti on it, or have triangular windows, or even not have any resemblance of a movable vehicle?
Thanks to huzi design, you can build your own dream car with interchangeable car bodies, patented magnetic snaps and chalkboard paint finish.
Dream Car by huzi design is ready to go into production, but they need supporters like you to bring the project to life! You can watch and support this project here (until Sunday Apr 21, 11:59am EDT).
Fawless
Thanks to Ladnebebe we have discovered a new brand: Fawless.
Comfortable clothes and beautiful colors
For the whole family! Do you like it?
Children’s room inspiration
What do you think about this black and white kids room? It is paired with warm wood tones and a vintage chalckboard. And of course, we can’t forget the polka dot wall.
Do you want to see a before & after room makeover? Here
Caracool Playground
The project that we present today is dated 2008 but we discovered it recently and we have thought is worth sharing.
Caracool Playground by Joel Escalona is designed to be a amusing slide. We are sure that the children will have fun gliding and playing in it!
See more Joel Escalona’s works on his website.
Slowers
Slowers produces nice and practical kids espadrilles (and for adult ones too). The espadrilles are made by a family business located in a small town in Spain, where they are hand sewn. The raw materials are certified organic cotton and jute.
We like the velcro closure for the children’s models: perfect to run (and dance, play or jump) and keep the shoe!
Kinetic creatures: walking cardboard animal kits
Kinetic Creatures are a set of three walking cardboard animal sculptures.
The Creatures, Elly the Elephant, Rory the Rhino, and Geno the Giraffe, are each made up of cardboard pieces that you assemble using tabs-and-slots. By turning the wire handle, you make the creatures come alive with a simple mechanical motion. Also they can walk with mechanical and electrical additions, such as Lego motors or Motor Kit.
Kinetic Creatures is a collaboration between Lucas Ainsworth, an Industrial designer and Alyssa Hamel, a Visual Arts Teacher and artist.
How do they work? More here
