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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
Wooden LEGO blocks by Mokurokku
Japanese firm Mokurokku hopes to get you feel closer to nature with their new wooden bricks.
Each box of mokulock bricks includes 50 pieces. They seem to be compatible with standard LEGO pieces, and we would want to see sets of mixed plastic and wood construction on different textures and colors.
(Source: cosascool, via petitstresors)
A re-imagined version of a childhood classic by Sina Sohrab.
Sina Sohrab is an Iranian-American designer and a graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design. Sina works to create objects that perform on multiple levels, with a focus on user interaction and functionality.
This Rocking Horse is made of bent laminated Ash the focus of this piece was deconstruction. The piece uses only two molds; one for the rockers and the other for the ribs, head, and tail (via this is paper).
M.I.K.
M.I.K. is a Czech manufacturer of traditional toys made of beech wood.
The company was founded in 1991. It produces great variety of wooden toys, construction kits, folders, games, mind-puzzles, learning toys, decorative products as well as commodities made for advertising purposes. (vía Břichopas about toys: M.I.K.)
USUALS is a design label that elaborates unique and innovating objects. The brand was founded by the design duo Van Eijk & Van deer Lubbe, designing all kind of objects from toys to textiles. Today, we present you the toy collection called Happy Toys, made completely with natural pieces of wood in their raw state. The result is a series of captivating toys that wake up the imagination of the public.
Visit their website to know more about their work.
Fuente / Source : Dezeen
(Source: adondelaviste)
