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

 

Imaginator

Imaginator is a card game created to encourage imagination and conversation. The deck contains 50 cards measuring 60 by 90 millimetres, printed in full colour on cardboard and packed in a box of thick black paper. Each card has two sides. One side shows a unique abstract illustration for association games. The other side carries a question about imagination and a growth mindset. The illustrations were first sketched on paper and then redrawn by hand with a digital pencil. Players may set their own rules, and the questions suit both children and adults.

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Poly Beat

Poly Beat is a rhythm exercise toy designed for children. Geometric polygons are used to make musical rhythm visible, helping children understand notes and rhythm patterns. The toy is made of injection-moulded plastic. Children insert note blocks into discs and place four discs into a column base. A camera at the top reads the colours of the blocks, and one button plays the matching rhythmic sound. A second button switches the sound to drums, marimba, piano or guitar. Free assembly of the blocks allows children to create their own rhythms.

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Boulderball

The smallest bouldering wall in the world. Boulderball is the first combined training tool and game specifically made for climbers, finger-strength training and climbing technique. Inspired by climbers, the Boulderball packs an ideal climb-training tool and fidgeting game for climbers into a small ball that can be brought along everywhere. Through an innovative assembling system (plug and play) the climbing holds keep the structure together and provide the connection points for the primary structure.

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Shangfang Large Seal Script

Shangfang Large Seal Script is an educational building block set for children. The design is inspired by The Book of Family Names, a classic Chinese reading text about family names. Chinese family name characters are shown in Shangfang large seal script, an ancient style of writing. The blocks are joined by mortise and tenon, a traditional Chinese joining technique. Foundation blocks and connectors of different types and sizes are combined according to the strokes of each character. The parts are made of ABS, a recyclable molded material.

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Meta Zen

Meta Zen is a meditation playset for adults and co-create interior decor. Minimalism in forms, employing widely recognized Zen aesthetics with parametric design, the modules complete the dynamic sand pattern, from a three-piece table object to a whole facade decoration, deploying a Zen atmosphere in minutes. Modular panels embed magnets to ease precise alignment efforts in building, which is friendly to visually impaired people, elders, and users with hand tremors. The patented modular system is quaint with rich texture and organically colored from fully biodegradable material.

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Habitat

Habitat is a set of educational toy bricks made for preschool children. The bricks show how climate change damages ecosystems and encourage early awareness of ecological protection. Two settings are included: a melting glacier and a deforested forest. Children find the problems, rebuild the environment and return the animals to their habitats. The bricks are made of cork bark, so no trees are cut down for production. Cork is antistatic and resists dust. Gradients of shape and color allow open-ended stacking.

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