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Design Magazine Blog featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Veggies

What if a toy can bring adults closer to children? Veggies is a set of toys designed for children between 2 to 5 years old, aiming to stimulate outdoor and group play. The goal is to enhance children's curiosity for exploring nature as well as their ability of socialization with other kids and adults. The standard set has 4 toy vegetables and 2 shovels (one kids-size, one adult-size) with 3 different interchangeable heads. Veggies stands out for promoting suitable and engaging play for children at a very wide and non-conventional range of age and not reinforcing gender stereotypes.

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Pram

A toy that doubles as two was our inspiration for creating our Kinderfeets Pram and Walker. Dutch designed and retro inspired. Made of birch wood and the sides are painted beautifully in soft white. Both a baby walker and pram, it’s the perfect walker to get babies comfortable taking their first steps. As baby perfects the trade of walking, you can easily remove the purple pegs, turning it into a pram.

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RenyiTong

While it is usually uneasy to create a 3D prototype using a single factor, the 3D Circle Connectors are able to do so in an innovative way. Integrating the Tai Chi theory in the Oriental culture and the Mobius Strip theory in the Western world, they can create different 3D prototypes with a single factor, and even more with the six commonly-used factors.

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Drago

Drago is a modern collection based on a dragon figure. It was made for collecting. The detailed craftsmanship create a playful sensibility. The Drago is inspired by ancient Chinese dragon, each one is hand-painted and has different patterns. Carefully designed and produced to be perfect, creating an experience layered with surprises. Drago has become an iconic art platform to bring artistry to the public eye. If you’re into designer toys, dragons, animation or pop culture, then Drago will capture your heart.

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Airwood

Airwood multifunctional wooden drone is a serials of four-axis drone with a wooden frame. The wood board is environmentally friendly and manufactured by laser cuter. Users need to remove pieces of parts from wood board and assemble them to drone frames by hand only. It uses modularity controllers, motors, batteries. So users can easily change the drone from one appearance to another. Although it is made of wood, the drone still has multiple functions, supporting indoor hovering, aerial photography, etc. For education, Airwood supports graphic programming and has accompanying courses.

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Dwarfs

There are two aspects that the ASD children are not good at, emotion and communication, the product aims to improve the children's social lives by training these two aspects. The product targets 6 - 12 years old ASD children who are educated in ordinary schools. It involves a playing process with a social worker to educate the children about emotion expression and emotion control. In the process, visual, tactile and auditory sensation of the children will be triggered, so that the children will have more and deeper communication with the social worker instead of only verbal communication.

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