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Designing for children is an enriching experience because you can impact human life at its most crucial point. There is nothing more rewarding than adding an extra smile through your products into their lives.
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My inspiration was in nature – many forest animals. I could not decide which one I should choose. The idea was to create more animals than just one. The prototype is the set of five animal pins, three tree pins and a bowling ball.
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Some time ago, under the design collective outofstock we started a collaboration with the french brand Ekobo, that produces objects using bamboo as the main material. It was a very interesting project that led to a series of sand/beach tools and toys for children, made in bamboo composite.
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Tell us about your background. How did you become a designer? Julia I always wanted to become either an architect or a school teacher. I had a really hard time choosing my bachelor but after hundreds of thoughts… I found it. Become an Industrial designer allowed me to creatively combine my devotion of children and my
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Tell us about your background. How did you become a designer? A sense of creativity has emerged in our childhood. The desire to create new things led us to study at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design. Here we met for the first time and found a common theme in creating children’s products. Why
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What was your inspiration for your educational toy for children “Vezaljka”? “Vezaljka” is an integral part of the project “HAI” (Hrvatske Autentične Igračke or Croatian Authentic Toys). The main goal of this project was to make an authentic Croatian toy for children of preschool age. Our task was to find inspiration from Croatian heritage, explore
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Why children needs the ZOO theatre? Zoo theater suits children well because it focuses on the development of child’s creative abilities and skills. The emphasis is made on imagination and freedom of expression through action. The game itself allows to create a personal fantasy world and doesn’t ask to follow the instruction. Consequently, the pieces of
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Tell us about your background. How did you become a designer? We are two young French designers graduated from l’ecole de design de Nantes atlantique respectively in the field of global and industrial design. As a designer I come from product design and cardboard packaging but Quentin comes from interior design, it gives us a
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Tell us about your background. How did you become a designer? Well my background is in product and architectural design, and over the years I have developed a specific interest in materials, construction and making – something that I think is really key to good design. While I have always naturally tended to be creative
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Tell us about your background. How did you become a designer? My name is Floris Hovers (1976) I live and work in Raamsdonkveer (NL), where I also grew up. After a foundation course in construction engineering and following a study in advertising and presentation techniques, I graduated in 2004 from the Design Academy Eindhoven. In
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