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Melopad
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Melopad offers a different experience letting kids making their own music. It comes with 8 colors of pads which produce 1 of the 8 pitches found in the major scale. The brain of this product is NXT and color sensors are used as the primary sense of device. The user assembles a personalized path. Using the limited number of tiles, user is required to form patterns creating the shortest routes to the right pitch. The concept is letting the user interact with music using the body; with movements such as walking, jumping and circling.
Tesselo: Tesselating children's toy
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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.
Zoop: Mobile Toy Co-op Service
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Zoop Toy Co-op is an alternative product system developed for the False Creek Community in Vancouver, BC. The development took place over an extensive process of co-design with the students at False Creek Elementary. We also developed a framework for assessing our potential environmental impact using the Okala guide.
Codesign and user centered research methods
Cuboid
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Cuboid is a multifunctional furniture/landscape that was designed for the children in St. Barnabas Daycare. The research covered for this project included children’s ergonomics, and their psychology with play. The assembly of this piece encourages the children to use their creativity to make different constructions. At the same time, it promotes the interaction between the children by helping each other. Targeted at an environment with very limited space, the design was intended to serve more than one purpose to decrease the need to purchase more furniture. The main materials used are honeycombs and plywood as an environmental alternative to solid plywood.
Little Boats
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An interactive game for children. Little Boats is a dice game where players take turns trying to sink each other's ship by placing paddles in the holes. The winner is the player whose boat sinks last. Team project made in 2nd year Industrial Design Core Studio.
TOCA.
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TOCA is a soft helmet that is designed for children who suffer from seizures as a symptom of their disabilities. Its main feature is to provide the wearers the opportunity to make their own fashion statement, and feel comfortable wearing it instead of being self-conscious. The components consist of the base helmet made of pastazote foam, and exchangeable skins.
GO: Gather + Observe
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This was an interactive children's toy designed in the second semester of Year 2 Design with Christian Blyt, in collaboration with fellow student Rebecca Spencer.
Troobs - Children's Interactive Object
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Created in conjunction with 4 grade 1 girls from False Creek Elementary School, Troobs is an interactive and modular kids object that integrates wooden rings, and household objects. This object promotes interaction by allowing children to manipulate and organize their toys.
‘Connecting’ was always a key aspect to our object. We wanted a visual element that would support interaction for the kids. The graphic treatment had to be simple and attractive to work well with the shape.
