Caleb Chung: Come play with Pleo the dinosaur

Caleb Chung, he is a toy designer and an inventor of Furby, a talking robotic furball that sold some 50 million units in the late '90s. He also invented "Pleo" the adorable dinosaur which can react like a real pet.

see his video and learn about the origin of these super amazing creatures here :-)

JOO YOUN

JooYoun Paek is an artist and interaction designer born in Seoul and based in New York. She has created interactive objects and installations that reflect on human behavior, technology and social change. She earned a Master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and is currently an Artist in Residence at EYEBEAM Art & Technology Center.


see Joo Youn Paek portfolio

air pencil

toy for ages 5 and older that helps develop spatial awareness. children (and adults) are able to draw in space, creating 3 dimentional sculptures through thousands of tiny colored, scented bubbles filled with helium, allowing for longer buoyancy. refillable bubble sack dispenses bubble solution to a doubled sheathed, perforated metal stalk with a removeable\refillable helium cartridge.

air pencil
by kevin le

KOLIPO

by alga

“KOLIPO” could be a new funny dice, a ball, a lights game or even a 3D keyboard; let’s the children choose it. The starting point of this project is the spherical shape, as one of the most popular and open–to-interpretation games ever. This seven edged object takes inspiration from the Johnson solid geometrical figure of an elongated triangular pyramid. The target age of “KOLIPO” is from 5 to 12 months: this is the age when the child’s growth is particularly concerning visual, tactile and auditory stimulation. This game wants to develop the child’s motor skills and the senses of hearing and seeing. The game plastic body is composed by two half orbs connected with a total of seven peripheral nodes (as seven are notes).

Each node has a transparent rubber edge, with a button switch, a note letter and a led light inside. There are two functioning modes: in the first mode every led lights on for 3 seconds when its matching switch is pressed (and so whenever the game is hit on the ground). In the second mode, adjustable rotating the main arm (arms are all the same but only one can be turned), all leds will light on permanently creating something like a coloured lighting ball. In both modalities every time a button is pressed the corresponding note is electronically reproduced. Electronics, batteries and the speaker are all enclosed in the central sphere, also to better distribute weights and to protect the parts, and there are no grilles or unprotected openings. There are just two embedded screws. Body is made of ABS, with parts connected by mechanic joints (screws) and thermic welding.

Sketch-a-move

Sketch-a-move
by Anab Jain

http://www.design21sdn.com/competitions/6/entries/403/gallery/3205 วีดีโอคะ

Sketch-a-move is a magical toy car that allows children to explore the unique relationships between small surface doodles and actual physical movements. If a child draws a circle on the top of the toy car, it will move in a circle. If he draws a complicated spiral, the car will move in a spiral. This is a very simple idea, yet it opens up endless play possibilities for interaction, collaboration, and development of creative skills in children.
Aimed Age Group: A critical part of the early years of child’s cognitive development is in negotiating the physical world. Sketch-a-move, which is aimed at children from the age of four to nine, could potentially play a role in this development in two ways. Firstly, it is exploring the idea of end user programming in a very simple way. Children see the output of a small drawing or a doodle as a physical movement and thus get a sense of feedback. This feedback loop may encourage the child to improvise further, to get desired outputs. Secondly, it encourages the child to build props from everyday objects and construct a make-believe world in relation to the toy’s movement, thus creating new play scenarios, both individually and collaboratively.
Environmental considerations: In the first iteration of Sketch-a-move, (see video), we have primarily been concerned with the concept and its technical feasibility. In the next iteration we built a working prototype by hacking together existing hardware and reusing material such as an existing toy car and a Nokia tablet. For the final product we aim to use highly recyclable materials such as polycarbonate, use rechargeable batteries, limit the number of different materials used, and produce a toxin-free toy that is easy to take apart at the end of its life.

Imagine

Imagine by Shelly Rubinstein
The design of this toy is simple and without a specific function. It’s like a white canvass, open to each child’s interpretation and imagination. It is ready to use in any way as the child desires. Thus, the child can express himself and have fun doing whatever he or she wants with the toy. It is a product with a concept and great meaning of revalorization behind. Its purpose is reclaiming all those values lost in today’s childhood. Its goal is to give back their childhood and innocence to the children; lost in today’s technology and cold world. Its going “back to basics” It gives you the possibility to be anything and everything you want it to be. This toy allows you to imagine and create as much and as many times as you want. It does not end, because children’s imagination is never ending.

It is very easy to produce. It doesn’t have materials that are hard to get and the fabrication process is simple. Its oval shape is thought and analyzed thru so it could be the very best option for the toy’s function. This shape allows you to give different forms and movement, which makes the toy function in its best way possible It comes in different colors and sizes, living the choice to each one, and allowing more field of interpretation. The materials are environmentally responsible. At the end of the toy’s life cycle, if you don not wish to keep it any more, each and every one of its components can be separated perfectly for its reutilization and recycling:

the seeds (filling) can be disposed or planted, the fabric (outer part) can be disposed without damaging the environment or reused for something else, while the rubber bands can be recycled. http://www.design21sdn.com/competitions/6/entries/141/gallery/2233

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อยู่ที่ Belgrade, Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro
เป็นfreelance designer/artist

Rosie Flo’s Kitchen Colouring Book

Rosie Flo’s Colouring books are now going to be distributed in the US. Yay! I guess someone over at Chronicle reads this blog and saw the post where I mentioned Rosie Flo needs a US distributor and jumped on it. And Chronicle Books is a perfect match. They are launching with three- the original, Garden version and Animal version and they will be available in March 2009. I have been feeling totally overwhelmed with work and it’s been so hard to keep up with posting every day (anyone want to be my intern??- email me) but after hearing that, it makes me so excited to continue to share all the amazing books I find. Anyway, Rosie Flo has a new title that just came out I want to share today called Rosie Flo’s Kitchen. It has adorable dessert dresses and cooking related clothing- you draw in the heads, arms and legs and color the rest. The best part about this coloring book- some of the pages have been printed on baking paper. How fun is that?! The baking paper pages are transparent so there are some really funny layerings of drawings. I especially like the corn cob dress with the husk cape that goes with it printed on the page before it. When you turn the page you remove the cape and see the matching corncob purse. Rosie Flo’s site (http://www.rosieflo.co.uk/index.htm), where you can pick up this new title, has a new gallery section. Now you can share your colored in pages from Rosie Flo with the world and win prizes. Check it out right here(http://www.rosieflo.co.uk/gallery.htm). Looking through the colored in versions is my favorite part. These coloring books really inspire imagination!

Il Gioco delle favole (The fable game)

The Fable Game created by design hero Enzo Mari in 1965 is something you’ll see in children’s section at most modern museums. That’s because it’s such a classic beautiful simple game that can be appreciated for generations and generations. It’s not a book, but something close. It’s a set of cards that interlock. The cards have illustrations of forty five animals and then some trees and plants and then a bunch of random objects you might find in classic fairy tales- an apple, a boot, an umbrella, the moon. When you interlock them in a variety of ways you are supposed to be inspired to create stories by what you see. There are so many ways to interlock the six cards which makes for endless storytelling abilities. I decided to write about this game today because I have been trying to channel Enzo Mari’s spirit and style for this depth perception game I am working on for Kid O. His animals are so simple using almost always one or two colors but they have such personality shown mostly through their poses which are almost all profile views. I love the small details he chose to include, tiny hairs for fur or whiskers, and what he chose to leave out- lines for overlapping limbs, texture on the surfaces of the bodies. Also the colors he used, not necessarily the right colors for the animal, compliment each other so well.

They are all made of wood and mostly silkscreened. I am so proud of them!

http://www.designmuseum.org/design/enzo-mari

http://kidonyc.com/home/

http://kidonyc.com/detail.htm?item=noticing_differences-_cats&path=NEW!_kid_O_products,age,

BACBUCON

BACBUCON by Johanna Kiss and Shlomi Friedman


Using everyday "clean garbage" to create a personal a Outdoor Play-Space
The Bacbucon project in cooperation with Messila Help-organisation in Tel Aviv, started from a point of view, that children are deserved basic things wherever they live, regardless to where they came from. As Industrial Design Students at Holon Institute of Technology - Israel, with the guidance of our teacher Adital Ela , we were assigned to a kindergarden of foreign workers´ children. We observed and studied the local human situation, and got involved in the life of the kindergarden Our project,

BACBUCON gives children (from the age of 3) free play possibilities and an opportunity to think about re-use values (the children can participate with their own bottles from home). In early ages through the first steps of playing, children understand the connections. Later through playing they experience and learn to create structures. They have the opportunity to build a completely new shape every time and the structures are always open ended. "If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things" (Norman Douglas)

Yo'Play

http://www.design21sdn.com/competitions/6/entries/335/gallery/2940

Yo'play
by Barro de Gast

Yo’play is a simple yogurt packaging that doubles as a modular construction toy. Children are educated to ‘collect and reuse’ instead of ‘waste’. By stimulating reuse at this early age, they will hopefully look for, and apply the same concept throughout life (or at least question the existence of products that don’t offer this possibility)
The pots fit together in different ways to create hollow, light weight, 3D shapes and figures. The creations can be disassembled, modified, extended, filled, and crashed, to be recreated over and over again.
The design works on two educational levels - The younger children (age 2-4) will simply connect the pots in a linear manner, put things inside – play appear and disappear ! make a multicoloured worm, a rattler, etc. The older age group (5-9) will create more complicated creatures and objects as their 3D insight and puzzling capacity increases. Smaller figures such as dogs, airplanes, dolls can be created to play in larger constructions such as castles, houses, etc
The Pots are to be sold with ‘graphical illustrations’ to stimulate the initial investigation, to have a simple objective to achieve and to show some of the creative possibilities. Sticker sets can be included to enrich the appearance of the creations, to launch new collectable themes, and to satisfy the different sex/age groups. Naturally the child can always decorate, draw, and personalize his own creations !
The pot design is made to adhere to the most traditional (cost-effective) thermo (vacuum) form production lines. The pots themselves are made of P.S. (monomaterial, fully recyclable). Pot Forming, filling and sealing are all done in the traditional manner. The ‘uniqueness’ lies in the ‘perforation’. No complicated moulds, or expensive production techniques, the simple die-cut perforation creates the ‘puzzle connections’, the heart of the design.

Tim Brown: The powerful link between creativity and play

See the video from "Serious Play" conference. Designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't).

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http://www.songesetrigolades.com/en/baby_bed.html

Ok, I have no desire to sell any of my clients or friends into the idea of buying a convertible crib. Although great in theory, it seems like your need for new furniture will grow as fast as your child. That being said, what do you think about this concept bed from Songes et Rigolades?

NEST

“Questioned by their father architect, these children issued to want to nest like birds very far from the ground, with crossed of 2 main branches. On a simple principle of frame and oblique levels, the father drew the diagram of a “livable” unit where all the traditional functions of the room of child are present…. In this family of artists, by principle, the walls of a room are at the beginning immaculate, like a virgin fabric on standby on a rest. One counts on the successive or combined inspiration ones and others to animate them.”

What a wonderful and creative space. Taken from the amazing book L'art d'installer les chambres d'enfants, Alta Marie-Claire.

http://moncabanon.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/10/07/de-l-audace.html
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CHAIRING

FeaturesA new chair concept which has been developed in Denmark and Switzerlandby Crival®.This concept furniture is a flexible system with many features:- easy assembling of the plywood plates without tools- stable even on irregular floor (adjustable)- easy for transport- comfortable, elegant and stable- stepless adaptable in height- following any age group- all parts are interchangeable- easy to keep clean -allows the child to stretch out the legs without getting out of the seat (Baby Chair)

http://www.crival.net/chairing2/en_index.htm

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Childrens Paper Chair (Sustainability)

The chair encourage people to buy environmental friendly products, intended to make a comment on our use of paper, is shaped as a toilet-roll. As the paper is being used the size of the toilet-roll increases, such the small child sits on a small roll and the older child on a bigger roll!
The Chair is made with drawing paper, as the paper is being “drawn upon”, the size of the front cylinder increases and thus follows the child’s growth!- age 2-7 Years. Clean paper is transferred from the back cylinder to the front simply by rolling the front cylinder backwards. The amount of paper is approx. 500 meters, which means that the paper can be changed twice a week for 5 years.

(In periods the child might draw all the time, in others the chair provides a personal and decorativeelement in the playroom).The Chair also comes in a carpet-variation.

http://www.charlottefriis.com/CPC01.htm

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2,600 sheets of fun (Product sheet Living Jewels Germany Paperstorm)

„Living Jewels Paperstorm“ is a table for children. It is made up totally of paper. By the plain design and functionality „Paperstorm“ becomes a painting-, playing- and creative centre in the children’s room. On four positions at different levels there are round press cuts within the pad, for pencils and other accessories.

The pad sticks together on one of the long sides. This side is printed with a motif. For the first edition we have chosen the young artist Alex Eben Meyer. He lives in New York and had already several successful projects – amongst others for the New York Times. His works are characterised by an analogue, woodcarving style and a weird but wonderful naive humour. Further editions with several international artists are already planned.

A total of 2.600 single sheets, each 50 x 100 cm build a table with 40 cm height, which stands on a flat stainless steel base. Stay-down rolls let the table stay movable. This is especially important for the positioning in the children’s room. The selected paper from IGEPA is produced out of Eucalyptus trees, which are planted as renewable raw materials on special ecologically certified plantations.

The „Paperstorm“ concept and design comes from Elastique., an agency from Cologne. At a design contest, they won 3.000 large sheets of premium paper for a corporate design work. As Elastique. could not find a use for this paper pad, the idea of the table was born.

Living Jewels present „Paperstorm – designed by Elastique.“ as an exclusive and patented novelty in an exclusive range of furniture for children.

Product details

Measurements: Height 41.5 cm, width 100 cm, depth 50 cmWeight ca. 200 kg

Details: 2.600 sheets of premium Eucalyptus paper, format 100 x 50 cm. Four round press cuttings as pencil holders on different levels.

Designer: Elastique

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Things we could never have built without CAD.

We're pretty impressed by Landscape Structures' Mobius Climber, which can help kids get exercise and maybe teach them a thing or two about fourth-dimensional wormholes.
But what we'd really like to see is an M.C.-Escher-designed condominium with space-saving anti-gravity staircases.

A wonderfully wavy way to set your playground apart
There's nothing else quite like our wonderfully wavy Mobius® climbers. Kids love climbing up, down, over and under as they test their strength and agility, and invent limitness new games. And our artful, anodized aluminum panels bring a unique aesthetic to any play area. Easy to install and virtually maintenance free, there's squiggly configuration options to fit every site and age group.
Mobius handholds are easy to grip at all angles for added safety
The Mobius climber is so much fun, we couldn't design just one. We offer four models to fit your budget and site: three-panel, six-panel (shown left), seven-panel and an eye-popping twelve-panel that will amaze adults and kids alike. These climbers provide a wide variety for everyone!
This exciting new climber celebrates the art of play. It helps kids: • Build gross motor skills• Build upper-body strength• Increase hand-eye coordination• Improve balance• Develop thinking skills• Give their imagination a workout
Our materials matter! Learn more about our exclusive anodized aluminum.
Look below for our interactive Mobius video! You'll also find videos on the individual product pages.

the Play Top

Kids love playing out in the garden and they love having great garden toys to play with. This ingenious toy is one that will provide hours of fun. With no rules, children can play with the Play Top whichever way they wish!
Made from strong plastic and suitable for indoor and outdoor use, this is one garden toy your children will love playing with.

The Puzzle Alarm Clock

Some alarm clock just can’t wake you up in the morning but not this, the Puzzle alarm clock. It features four piece of puzzle on top which will automatically reject once the alarm rings and you will need to put those four pieces back together to stop the ringing. It is powered by two AA batteries

Flying Stick Camera

The title should be enough to explain what this is. In case it isn’t, it’s a flying stick with a camera! Rub it between your palms to get some kinetic energy stored up. Then release and the Flying Stick automatically takes pictures at set intervals. You know what they say, everybody looks 5 lb lighter when photographed from above.
No mention of specs like camera resolution or memory but hey it’s a concept. If anything, it’s supposed to get your mind thinking, not criticizing.

Designer: Tsunho Wang