Transformers’ Toy Design

Alex’ original drawings of the Transformer’s “Classic Mirage” robot including its parts. © TOMY / Hasbro

PingMag got hold of Australian Alex Kubalsky of Takaratomy in Tokyo, who not only happens to be the sole foreign toy designer in Japan - he also designed all the transformations for Transformer’s Bumblebee, Mirage and more cute fan gear!

read the interview

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 :-)

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)