In today’s world full of technology and advancement, only theory based knowledge isn’t enough. Narmada Bal Ghar is an NGO that works on providing a new way of education with experiential learning by empowering 850+ schools with Classroom Labs, Providing resources to 1100+ teachers and reaching more than 250K students all over the world. They believe in making kids Future ready by developing entrepreneurial skills.
We are today writing about a product design that teaches the Language of THINGS in a Six Bricks construction toy design.
Children must master the Language of THINGS, before they master the Language of WORDS
Friedrich Froebel
Have you ever wondered how many ways can you combine 6 Lego bricks?
There are 915,103,765 ways to combine six, eight-stud LEGO bricks. Yes that is a huge number and that very number is possible ways of being creative. Lego has essentially taken the concrete block, the building block of the world and made it into the building block of our imagination. (Previously, we have talked about SumBlocks, which is open ended blocks used for learning basic arithmetic).
Following a selection of TOY DESIGN Branding and Packaging works done in more that 15 years. Some of them are the result of Brand Strategy consultancies, some of them are Brands we have designed for new product lines and/or startups.…
TOY Design Academy comes from the idea of a program open to all and from the concept that many ideas of games or toys often remain in an artisanal or private dimension. TOY Design Academy is born because I happen to talk…
Awareness Toys are a collection of 6 wooden toys designed to allow adult people to benefit from the game in a Wellness-by-play perspective. They have been presented lately at Games For Health Europe conference in Eindhoven and featured on the…
What brought Awareness Toys at Games for Health Europe and on ADI Design Index 2019 I think it was especially the idea of being able to create toys for adults. The project, born from the cooperation with Dario Gianoli, counselor educated in generative psychopedagogy, started in 2015…
Can light be used only for illumination? What if it could become a means of transmitting information? Is it possible to “listen” to light? Smusic is the first toy that employs the interaction with light to produce sound. The toy has been developed with the light technology company Slux and our network of partners .
Some of the TOY team will be present at the upcoming Toy Fair in Nuremberg.
We will be there from the 2nd to the 4th of February 2018.
Take the chance to meet us at the biggest toy fair in Europe
and receive the new TOY Comic for free.
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FLIGHT OF FANCY CAN PLASTIC AND BAMBOO FLY TOGETHER? This has been the challenge of the Mini-Vehicles collection by Hape. Bamboo is said to be "the wood of the future" because it grows really fast, just like giant grass. And its…