What if waste was not the end of a material, but the beginning of a new idea? With ‘From Waste to Wonder’, social designer Jamie van Duuren invites children and young people to create their own play materials from coffee grounds, potato starch and casein.
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IMAGY – wooden blocks game by Tim Fokker
What happens when 37 wooden blocks turn the joy of cloud-gazing into a game? With IMAGY, designer Tim Fokker brings pareidolia – the playful art of discovering figures, faces and stories in everyday shapes – into the hands of children and adults alike.
Continue readingKORA – universal design toy by Estela Segura Castellano
What if one object could be a play furniture today and piece of furniture tomorrow, for many years to come? With KORA, designer Estela Segura Castellano has created a universal design toy made of pine wood that grows with children, invites open-ended play and challenges the throwaway logic of conventional toys.
Continue readingImagix – construction toy by Işıl Barut
What happens when wooden shapes, ropes and fabric pieces meet a child’s imagination? With ‘Imagix’ designer Işıl Barut has created an open-ended construction toy that invites children to build, bend, and invent freely.
Continue readingLuni – playful furniture by Anastasija Ribaka
Luni is a F U N i t u r e – a toy that involves furniture functions. Colourful upholstered blocks of different shapes, that are something in the middle of Tetris blocks and animal shapes make it easy for kids to free their imagination, they can move and combine them together or use them to play with other toys.
Continue readingYaWood – rocking horse & play furniture by Argo4 Studio
The goal was to create an object that could be used individually, but that would be more funny when shared. It is made by a curved wood profile that follows the lines of the body. The design concept is inspired by the mother’s hand as a symbol of protection and kindness.
Continue readingWheelbarrow Table – children’s play table by Sarit Shani Hay
The idea behind this kid’s play table was to create a fun playful mobile table that it is both functional and playful. A child can play with it, draw and use its storage for toys
Continue readingZipp kids furniture – play furniture by Ayushi Jain
Children are agile inquisitive creatures, running around, bending, twisting, throwing everything that falls into their hands. Fixed furniture not only restricts their movement but also its hard surfaces with complex assembly makes it rather dangerous for children.
Continue readingPlay furniture Space Divider City by Neringa Orlenok
The main inspiration for “Play Space divider City” is a house as a building as well as the emotional feeling of home. One of the most favorite game for kids of all times is playing houses.
Continue readingThe Tree – play furniture by ForCurly
The idea came alive to design and develop the functions of various kid’s items and toys into one long lasting, high quality item with a pleasing design and manufactured with love and respect for nature.
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