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Ivan Lopez

Art Toy

Thursday, 10 September 2026

Cabulero

Cabulero Mini Monsters is a series of handmade art toys conceived as amulets linked to good fortune. Each figure is modeled by hand in modeling paste and finished in detail with acrylic paint. Silicone molds can be made to reproduce the figures in resin when a small series is required. The pieces measure 55 mm in width, 70 mm in depth and 70 mm in height. The figures have no joints and are delicate collectible objects produced in limited numbers. The project was developed in Quito, Ecuador, to offer original art toys in a local market where such collectible pieces were absent.

Yi Teng Shih

Dough Toolset

Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Vegetable

The toy tools provide cutting, pressing, and squeezing to help children make different dough shapes. However, many toy dough tools on the market are based on geometric shapes. Therefore, the team combined both children's ergonomic considerations and different vegetables' shapes to design this tool set. The design challenge was to identify the right ergonomic that can fit children hand size so the team produced many sketch models in order to test the comfort.

Yi Teng Shih

Animal Toy

Tuesday, 8 September 2026

Hair Salon

The team designed four cute animal shapes so children can learn to understand different animals and creative different hair styles for them to develop their own craft skills. The team made a large area of the pressure plate on the bottom of the animals, so children can easily operate. Children need to put the dough inside the animal toy, and through squeezing, the dough hair will be squeezed out and trim them. Dough is a material that can be reused. Moreover, the toy is suitable for playing with other people, such as friends and parents, and creates a lot of fun by making funny hair.

Alex King

Poker with Holder

Monday, 7 September 2026

Pokermate Deluxe

The present design is deliberately developed for older persons to enjoy card playing during pandemic – younger adults will stay at home for work and have more time to take care of their grandparents. Poker is printed on a fine smooth paper so that player could use less effort to shuffle. Sans-serif fonts are printed on upper left and lower right corners are being enlarged so that players could read clearly even if they are in low sensory abilities. It is the best design for players who enjoy playing Big Two, Chinese Poker and Matching Games with all family members with the oval wooden stand.

Marco Guariglia

Toy for Visual Disable

Sunday, 6 September 2026

Ovo Melody

Ovo Melody is a musical toy designed for players of any age with little or no musical knowledge. Nodes are placed on tracks, and a ball with a magnetic sensor rolls down and reads the strength of each node magnet to identify the musical scale. The data is then sent by Bluetooth to a base station, which plays the sound. The base holds different instruments, so trumpet, piano or guitar can be selected by switching the bottom part. Braille notation marks each component and the instruction cards, so visually impaired people can also recreate known melodies or compose new ones.

ChungSheng Chen

Breath Training Game

Saturday, 5 September 2026

P Y Lung

Is a toy-like device design for all ages so that everyone will be benefit from regular breath training to enhance lung capacity by blowing the ball to pass through tracks with different checkpoints in controlling the inhale and exhale of air. The tracks comes in various module, flexible and interchangeable. A magnetic mechanism structure designed in the breath builder which provide adjustment to suit one’s respiratory condition.

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