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.
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Discover international wooden toys for kids from responsible toy designers and toy manufacturers. With pictures✓ Interview✓ + direct CONTACT.
Meet Monika Matějková and Veronika Watzková, toy designer from Czech Republic
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.
Continue readingVezaljka – educational toys for children by Stella Grabarić
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 all aspects of chosen topic and make an interesting game that will teach children about the old Croatian customs.
Continue readingZOO theatre – creative toys for kids by Denis Borisov
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.
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 readingTotem – educational toys for children by Isabel Fuster
What was your inspiration for your Totem toys? I wanted to do a special toy designed to satisfy kids with less accessible toys available in the market due to endure any kind of disability. In this way I started to investigate and analyze the toy market until I realize that children with hearing impairment can […]
Continue readingMeet Athina Doukati and Jose Navarro, toy designer of the the wandering workshop
“Imagination in play” is the key concept with regard to our approach to design for kids. We focus on designing open-ended toys that stimulate creative play and engage children in creating their own stories.
Continue readingZoo – a play furniture by Fabien Barrero-Carsenat and Jo-Anne Kowalski
Zoo Collection, is a result from our volonty as designer (Fabien Barrero-Carsenat and Jo-Anne Kowalski) to bring back children to what would call the essentials.
Continue readingBILU toys – creative wooden toys for kids
During the avantgarde Torres García was pioneer in Uruguayan toy design, creating his own brand ‘Aladdin Toys’. The geometric and simplicity of Clan shapes are inspired by this great artist.
Continue readingDesign for kids by afilii at Design Post Cologne September 2015 * full list of exhibitors
For the first time afilii presents at 10th + 11th of September at Design Post Cologne a variety of 28 designers from 8 different countries. Those in our opinion have a great potential for international markets. We show products with a story behind.
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