Mr. Cube by Héctor Serrano
Mr. Cube (for Muji) is a collection of wooden figures with a common central body and interchangeable arms, legs and head. Rearrange and create infinite combinations easily thanks to its internal magnets.
After playing all the parts fit together forming a perfect cube!
Héctor Serrano’s projects combine innovation with the communication of familiar ideas in unusual and inventive ways. Maybe you know his Finger tattos or the Figer puppets for npw.
Toronto is an adjustable stool for playing and for sitting-down.
Multifunctional, built with kid-friendly materials (cork and foam, both 100% recyclable) and projected thinkink to kids manipulation.
Main functions: exercising the sense of balance; building psychomotor circuits; learning by doing (different materials, textures, weights, densities, etc); assembling and disassembling; decorating and organizing play areas…
The Toronto stool is the brainchild of IN-TENTA In-Tenta, a design studio and it is produced by MADE DESIGN, both based in Barcelona.
YETI Punch’n’Cuddle.
There is a new comer in the Punch’n’Cuddle’s family: The Yeti!
This furry punchbag is happy to be used as a fun outlet for stress and a workout tool by children and adults alike.
The Yeti is handmade partly by a disabled workshop in Berlin and partly by a small-scale bamboo manufacturer in northern Vietnam
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!
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).
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
Pico Pao (2): raw materials for experimentation
Pico Pao is a workshop with a long history of craftsmanship that began in 1979 in Lubián, a small Spanish village in the mountains on the border with Portugal. First, they made wooden replicas of old-fashioned toys, along with reproductions of the cameras used by the first street photographers and copies of traditional, pre-industrial looms.
Later their attention was increasingly concentrating to a collection of old-fashioned toys and games both European and African origin (see Juegos de la Antiguedad collection).
Currently Pico Pao is focusing its activity on designing original games. These ones, which belong to the collection Ludus Ludi, are notable for their lack of rules; they can be seen more as exquisite raw materials for poetic experimentation and for the stimulation of abstract thought.
Ludus Ludi are games to develop the creativity, there are games for adults, also for kids just to enjoy building beautiful structures.
You can find their games and know more about their story on their website, full of little treasures.
Coup de coeur: Pico Pao
Chairs… Chairs that you can pile up, stack, leave scattered on the floor, group into random shapes or difficult balance
Chairs for playing
Chairs for experimentation
We loved meeting you, Pico Pao
(Source: picopao.com)
House of games by Dombon-a-tanya
The three-storied object is hold together by the games inside. The games are partly made of wood (domino, mikado, dice and the pencils), others are made of paper (cards, board games and the booklets).
Dombon-a-tanya - recreate well known objects in a contemporary way. They unite the knowledge of craftsman generations and the modern and clear-out way of thinking and design.
Check out their Box couture project (we fell in love!) and their e-shop.
Rocking thing by Marcin Bahrij
We love this contemporary version of rocking horse, made of solid block of cork. Though the object has a animalistic character, it is not a portrayal of any particular animal – hence the name – rocking thing. It lives a scope for own interpretation for a child. Wooden handles can be freely interpreted as horns, eyes or antennas .
Cork used in the project is made of recycled wine corks. It is an unusual type of cork, durable and resistant to crumbling.
(Source: cargocollective.com)
Woody craft
Traditional wood puzzle of six interlocking pieces, with a trick that must be discovered in order to separate the puzzle and put it back together. Fun. Beautiful. Simple.
Playing with cards and blocks
The 36 wooden building blocks and 26 illustrated ABC flash cards, introduce curious and creative kids to the fundamentals of architecture and design, with each letter referencing a particular concept or idea; A is for Arch, D is for Dome, M is for Material, W is for Wallpaper.
Combining the wooden blocks and flash cards encourages imagination and children’s desire to build their own cities, towers or space stations - developing both learning and creativity.
A-Z flash cards & wooden blocks, Hungry Little Minds.
El Nan Casteller
El Nan Casteller is a unique building set that enables to explore creativity and imagination. This set is made up of 40 wooden pieces with an original shape which allows to build real castells towers up to 20 plants. Another option is a 5 natural wooden pieces set that reproduces an small castell, the pilar.
Stay tuned! They are already working on a version of the game for children aged 0-3 years.
B’kid
Barcelona-based product designer Noelia Vallano has designed a bicycle that grows with your childs.
B’Kid takes a fun and safe approach to teaching young children to ride, giving them the confidence and balance necessary for the transition to pedals without stability. And the parents only need to deal with one object instead of 3, from age 2 to 6.
(Source: treehugger.com)
