This summer I am doing Yard Sales. I found great vintage toys that I will post soon. But most importantly, I found a kit on how to make your own finger puppets!!! It is funny to think that we need a "kit" in order to make something that simple. But it is true that a self contained box with felt, sticker eyes and pens make things so much easier! At least, it invites to start something.
I also found on the web this new DIY (do it yourself) plush toy for ... artists only. The canvas shape has changed these days, and repetitively takes the form of a Ninja toy. I find the toy-canvas fun, but not that inspiring. Nothing less inviting to create than a white plush silhouette. I guess having a silhouette to depart from brings the artist into decoration mode. I wish the results will explode the toy shape itself and reinvent the shape or something ...
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Monday, June 30, 2008
Toy canvas
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Lego at the kitchen table
Being bored at the kitchen table is not an option anymore with Joel Hesselgren 's set of salt and pepper shakers made of Lego. Then you can decide: More salt? More pepper? by just moving a red block around!
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
chu-keshi
An original eraser for the gift shop at the Chichu Art Museum.
It can be sad to see the corners of a new, snow-white eraser wear down and get dirty, so Nendo design wanted to create an eraser that already felt lovingly worn in, like a secondhand T-shirt or a pair of vintage jeans. With its sloping angles, the chu-keshi eraser is less likely to feel old or worn out!
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Mixing your toothpaste flavors!
FlavaRama is a dental toy that allows a user to mix a custom toothpaste flavor. The user pumps base flavors into a separate chamber and then can expel the mixed flavor onto their brush. The current design incorporates toothbrush holders and clear twisting connection tubes.
Design Team: Mark Cote, Jiang Wei Zhu, Karlen Ruleman, Michelle Lustrino and advisors James Penn and Andrew Carvey
Air bubble wrap calendar
A calendar with air bubble wrap. Realizing each day by snapping a bubble. Design by Nendo.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Miniature
What is so attractive about miniature models for electronic devices? Maybe we are in love with these small scale models, because as children we constantly dreamed on having a toy version of our parents' luxurious turntable equipment or the mysterious Reel To Reel! Also the nostalgia of the tangible knobs plays its part ...
The miniature offers tiny components so difficult to hand craft!!! So I selected here insanely cute hand-made cardboard models by Dan McPharlin. Check out his selection ...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Mario in the paper!
Pretty awesome interactive Mario! Thank you Etienne!
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Saturday, April 26, 2008
What a neat thing for the dark!
What a fun idea! I can see so many children be into this! Designed by Alexander Lervik, this Sense light swing is made of plastic with fiber optic lighting inserted.
On a dark summer night the swing creates a spectacular light show that lights up a whole garden in the most beautiful way.
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Playmobil fever
Superbe selection of playmobil + art work with playmobil!!! ->Here<-
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Train Graffiti
You can graffiti on your own train! White resin train with float off decals for you to customize: ->Here<-
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
Animated wheels
Spoke POV is an easy-to-make electronic kit toy that turns your bicycle wheel into a customized display! The project includes a free schematic design, open software for uploading and editing stored bitmap images, and a high-quality kit with all the parts necessary to build your own. Designed by Ladyada!
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Friday, April 4, 2008
I am terminally juvenile!
I think this blog is the right one to receive my latest project!
My recent project Picture This!: Algorithmic film assembly using toy gestures
What is it? A new input device embedded in children’s toys for video composition.
A new form of interaction for children’s capturing of storytelling with physical artifacts.
What does it do? Children craft videos with and about character toys as the system analyzes their gestures and play patterns. As they play with the toys, they conduct film assembly.
Research in human computer interaction I propose a new genre of Gesture Object Interfaces. It relies on the analysis of gestures coupled with objects to represent bits.
Research project I created at the MIT Media Laboratory at the Tangible Media Group with my adviser Dr. Hiroshi Ishii.
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