Developing an interest in music at a young age is tremendously important to a child’s development. While toy versions of instruments have always been popular among parents, it can be difficult to parse the cheap imitators from the quality products. Coming out of this year’s Toy Fair, there were a few notable companies that are uniting design and durability in child-oriented instruments. Loog Guitar The …
When a creative brief tasked them to “make something connected to the Internet that doesn’t live on the screen,” Foundry, a small research team at Mint Digital, came up with Olly, a scent-based system rewarding social media activity or, as they describe it on their site, a “web-connected smelly robot.” Olly links up to web-based social applications and emits a fragrance—thankfully, one that you choose—when …
Following the success of his crumpled city maps, which solved the problem of paper by replacing it with durable Tyvek, industrial designer Emanuele Pizzolorusso has now come out with a set of blocks made from Carrara marble, the same material used for Michelangelo’s David. Alpha Beta Gamma is a set of three geometric shapes that can be reconfigured into a variety of constructions, like a …
