Some spacial structures like natural inspired spaces like woods, seaside, jungles… immerse children in other worlds and start amazing adventures. Love how these spaces make them travel with their imagination to the past, or to the future, learning also about different cultures.
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Meet Sergei Urban, Influencer from TheDadLab
Children learn texture, shapes and colours by exploring objects that surround them. Good design sparks creativity and forms a good taste.
Continue readingAnimaze – play furniture by Studio DesignLibero
From early childhood to adulthood, we love to play with puzzles and modular toys. These toys teach and prepare kids early in life for some very important life skills. In case of Animaze, a puzzle was redesigned to become a kids-friendly furniture system.
Continue readingAnimals – toys of wood by Floris Hover
Designing toys that ‘are not finished’, is perhaps the biggest challenge. That way there is enough room to fill in things yourself. For other objects that is probably important as well. It is good to learn children but it is not good to tame them! so there must be space for the imagination.
Continue readingWalcar – play furniture & wooden push car by Basten Leijh
The core mission of my work? Functionality. In the design process, I always examine the user and producer within myself: “What is the essence? Is something really necessary for the solution?”
Continue readingDesign for kids curated by afilii * Fuori Salone Milan 2017 * exhibitors
For the first time afilii – platform for design + architecture for kids presents during the Fuori Salone 2017 at Ventura Lambrate 14 young designers and upcoming brands from seven countries.
Continue readingSsstolik – play furniture by Marta and Dawid Grynasz
During one of our studio visits, we had the opportunity to watch a craftsman weave a large carpet. We also took into account games from our own childhood. These observations allowed us to create a piece of furniture that naturally encourages kids to personalize their space and practice their motor skills while having fun.
Continue readingMeet Jaimee, Mum Blogger from yoyo-mom
Kids tend to have more of an open eye and an open spirit. They are less tainted than designers because they are not overexposed to art and design.
Continue readingThe Mother child dining – modern kids furniture by Maartje Steenkamp
I was alone with my child and I wanted to picture the story of the contact between mother and child while eating. So all the dimensions and the form is based on the movements between the mother and the child. It’s a very intimate piece, there is only space for the two of them.
Continue readingUniphant – a play furniture and shelf for kids by Stina Lanneskog
I’ve come across so many stories told by adults about their childhood furniture and the play in the in-between spaces around them. What strikes me is that it often comes down to what the child experienced as emotional about the furniture.
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