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Creative Wooden Creatures

Creative Wooden Creatures kit allows children to create a wide range of animals by combining various body parts. Designed for children above the age of 5, it is a universal toy that children from different cultural backgrounds learn and discover animals of land and sea while also designing their own creatures. Challenge was to design a toy kit that offers unlimited possibilities for building creatures with simple, organic forms that foster creativity and perception of aesthetics.

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AR Wonders

A pioneer of integrating traditional educational toys with AR technology! The Dinosaur DNA series is a range of like-no-other products that inspires young minds and unleashes their imagination with the fusion of both physical and digital play. Kids can imagine being a paleontologist to dig up and build a glow dino skeleton from a plaster block. As paired with an innovative app, DinoCodes, kids can make use of the in-app AR technology to interact with the virtual 3D dinosaurs, and also share photos or videos with friends via the app instantly.

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Small dogs

Unique is the sentiment which inspired the object and urged my instinctive creativity, my daughter’s desire for a dog. Normally, I put attention to the little things, little daily needs, little emotions, in this way I create healthy, pure and simple objects, aimed at the satisfaction of children and pleasantly useful for adults. Small Dog it’s not only a toy, or the concretization of a child's dreams: it’s so useful that it goes everywhere … walking… around the house.

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DIY Mini Press

This is the do it yourself Mini Etching Press kit, part of the Halfwood Press line of etching presses. It is made so that it can be packed in a compact box for mailing. Owners need about an hour for assembly. The kit has a user manual, felt blankets for intaglio printing and a chase for relief printing. Besides etchings and linoleum blocks users print lithographic, stencil, mono types and mono prints. This personal size press is youth friendly and capable of professional quality prints by experienced printmakers. The printed user manual is interactive with QR codes to link owners online.

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Brickle C

Brickle C is a small set of colored cork building blocks. They can be stowed in a handbag. They are used from Managers in Office Meetings and from Mummies when they are in a cafe with their children. The material characteristic of Cork do allow to build complex constructions due to the adhesive surface structure of cork. With KORXX young children are able to realize their imagination without getting lost in too much failure. As the materials does also have a light weight it is safe and silent in play.

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Mastodonts

At wodibow they believe that toys can mix design with being 100% natural. Mastodonts is a family of wooden magnetic animals inspired in architecture. From 1 body you can build 4 animals just by changing the heads, mouths and ears. No plastic, no paint, no varnish nor glue. It is all beech wood and magnets and finished with wax made of olive oil and beeswax. It is presented in a box made of poplar. They include a cloth and a tin of wax to maintain the Mastodonts. They design and produce in Spain to double-check every one of the pieces they make. To produce they use hi-tech CNC machinery.

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Good designs create value for society. Everyday we feature a special design project that demonstrates excellence in design. Today, we are pleased to showcase an award-winning design that makes a positive difference. We will be featuring more great and inspiring designs daily. Make sure to visit us everyday to enjoy new good design products and projects from greatest designers worldwide.

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