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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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