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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.