What was your inspiration for your playful furniture ‘KokoLoko’?
KokoLoko is a playful furniture collection designed for kids. Each piece presents a different combination of same eight elements. Changing their combination gives you variations in functionality and its sculptural appearance, creating variety of characters, depending on the eye of the children. KokoLoko is a bench, stool or a shelf, but at the same time a car polygon or a doll house, design that gives your child (or child in you) a possibility to create a character in a functional piece of furniture. The Kolokolo childrens furniture collection is designed to be assembled and disassembled, easy to transport and to store.
How children respond to your ‘KokoLoko’, Hana?
To most of them, their first contact with KokoLoko provokes touching and disassembling and then assembling in a different way, while others, coming already with a different toy, perceive it usually as an home object for that other toy, like a garage for cars or house for little character toys. But in the end they all use it differently.
A few personal questions at the end: what toys did you play with as a child?
Lego, Playmobil and dolls. I loved assembling Ikea with my parents.
If you look into a crystal ball and predict your future as a designer: what children’s product would you like to design next?
I want to redesign some old school toys and I plan to design a beach accessoires collection.
Please get in touch with Hana Ciliga Zadro directly via e-mail:
vasb@unanpvyvtn.pbz
About the author
Katja Runge studied applied cultural studies, trained as a TV journalist and worked for many years as a communications consultant in the design and creative industries. In 2012, she founded afilii – platform and community for meaningful design for kids. With the Prototypes format, she enables young talents to present their ambitious designs to a wider audience. Katja conducts the interviews herself, edits the answers and puts the finishing touches to the text and images.
This interview was updated in April 2025, first published in October 2019.
