Toy

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Designer / Brand: Ana Banić Göttlicher Work: Educational Puzzle Tag: Toy

Gla Gla

When creating a distinctly Croatian souvenir for the island of Krk designers came up with a puzzle teaching the players ancient Glagolitic scripture as it appears on the Baska stone tablet (dating back to 1100 AD). Puzzle pieces are made out of olive trees, grown on the island of Krk since ancient Greece. Gla Gla condenses thousands of years of culture into a game allowing the users to piece together bits of Croatian history from the island of Krk and recombine them into new stories and words in any language.

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Designer / Brand: Ivan Lopez Work: Art Toy Tag: Toy

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.

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Designer / Brand: Yi Teng Shih Work: Dough Toolset Tag: Toy

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.

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Designer / Brand: Aldis Blicsons Work: Wooden Balance Bike for Kids Tag: Toy

Choppy

Made for kids up to 4 years of age, Choppy has an innovative and handsome design. The pedal-less bike can be assembled as a construction game or building blocks without using any tools. Seat and handlebars can be easily adjusted to the height of the young rider. The springy seat is specially designed to protect the child's back. The ultra-light bike doesn't have the standard metal bearings nor even a single screw. The bike can be dismantled, packed neatly in the compact box, and stored in the car's trunk or even the back seat.

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Designer / Brand: ChungSheng Chen Work: Educational Learning Toy Tag: Toy

Blocs Intummy

Blocs in tummy was created to convey the concept that everyone has access to safe and adequate food. The main purpose is to educate preschool children about hunger, and learn to share and increase their awareness on food shortage. Geometrical food blocks can be share among children to fill into the empty stomach of the dolls, guided by an illustration story book, to enhance the cognition of food sharing and food cherish.

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Designer / Brand: Yibo Dai Work: Toy Tag: Toy

Little Locksmith

Little Locksmith is a wooden educational toy for young children. The toy combines five sets of keys and locks, each with a different theme: animals, fruits, weather, marine life and vehicles. Each lock cylinder accepts only one key, so children practise shape and colour recognition. Every lock body has two windows. The top window shows objects linked to the theme, and the bottom window shows a matching scene that changes when a wheel is turned. Five picture books support storytelling, and the locks can be hung on a wall for storage.

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Designer / Brand: ChungSheng Chen Work: Educational Learning Toy Tag: Toy

2030 City Blueprint

This set of educational toys aim to enhance preschool children with consciousness and mindset on sustainable development of cities and communities, to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. Using recycle corrugated fiberboard as the sole material, conforms to green toys and sustainable development objective. With different urban city floor plan, building blocks, land, trees, vehicles, human, green energy generators like wind turbine and solar panel, children were encouraged to build his/her future city creatively yet sustainability.

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Designer / Brand: ChungSheng Chen Work: Breath Training Game Tag: Toy

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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Designer / Brand: Esmail Ghadrdani Work: Educational Toy Tag: Toy

Keyt

Keyt is a simple toy, fun and exciting activity that inspired by lock and key. By turning the key and the rings inside the lock and the coordination created between them, the key passes through all the rings inside the lock and is placed inside the lock and procedure is also performed when removing the key from the lock. This placement of the key in the lock increases concentration in children and helps eye-hand coordination.

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Designer / Brand: Yuhe Chi Work: Artistry Toy Dragon Tag: Toy

Drago

Drago is a collectible toy dragon made for display in interiors. Each figure is 75 millimetres tall and draws on the ancient Chinese dragon, a creature that combines traits of fish, snake and eagle. The collection includes six styles and twelve looks. Every piece is digitally modelled and printed in white PLA with layers of 0.1 millimetre. After printing, each figure is polished, sprayed with a top coat, hand-painted with acrylic colours and finished with a further glossy coat. The design offers adult toy lovers a decorative tabletop ornament.

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Designer / Brand: Andreas Kioroglou Work: Board Game Tag: Toy

Daedalus Maze

Daedalus Maze is a board game inspired by ancient Greek mythology. The game is played on a board with a rotating transparent layer that carries traps. Each player receives six pawns and a set of cards. When the layer is spun, the maze changes and the traps move. Players must survive the traps, take the treasure and leave the maze first. The set includes 68 cards showing gods, beasts and events, along with dice and a brochure. The board is drawn in three dimensions and represents a stone arena.

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Designer / Brand: Tati Ferrucio Work: Toy Tag: Toy

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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