Tesselo: Tesselating children's toy

description

Tesselo is a tesselating children's toy designed for dynamic play and sustainability.

Tesselo is a set of wooden puzzle blocks with characters. It can be used as a matching game, building blocks, or a puzzle game.

Materials and Production: using laser cutting and tesselating shapes to minimize waste and take advantage of scrap wood from larger industrial processes. The toy could be produced in any amount to create larger or smaller sets. The toy is painted with non toxic clay based paints and finished with food safe shellac.

Distribution: We targeted toy libraries as potential customers and explored the potential of open source design. Toy libraries are inherently sustainable systems that ensure that a toy has a long life span and is not discarded after a child grows out of it. Open source design means the outline of the toy can be distributed digitally, allowing the toy to be made locally with a laser cutter or cut out by hand from materials like cardboard, eliminating the need to ship the toy.