Linking Stool Kindergarten Stool by Bruce Tao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 Bronze A' Design Award in Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design Competition Category.
BronzeBaby Products· 2019
Linking Stool Kindergarten Stool
by Bruce Tao
Client: Bruce Tao
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Baby Products Category
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About Linking Stool Kindergarten Stool
Linking Stool is a backless seat designed for kindergarten use. The seat is round, is made of teakwood and measures 400 by 245 by 230 millimeters. A connecting plate and a linking shaft fit into holes in the seat, so several units can be joined or separated quickly. The linking system was inspired by a bicycle chain. Joined seats allow children to sit close together and play games around a teacher. The design also keeps seating tidy instead of scattered and supports the supervision of group activities.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Linking Stool Kindergarten Stool is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Linking Stool Kindergarten Stool is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Linking Stool Kindergarten Stool splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
I observed that when the kindergarten teacher played games with the children, the children often gathered around the teacher. I was inspired by the chain of the bicycle and wanted to design a kindergarten bench that could be Linked or disassembled quickly, so the Linking Stool came into being. At the same time, Linking Stool allows more kids to be more intimate and learn to share based on the combination.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
1. Most kindergarten benches are used as independent furniture. As there are many children in kindergartens, the benches are placed in a scattered way.
2. The original kindergarten bench structure is relatively simple, which cannot meet the different needs in the process of kindergarten educational activities. Moreover, the single stool can only accommodate one child.
Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
The utility model belongs to the bench technology field, especially for a can connect each other through the chain structure of the bench, including the bench seat body, described a seat on a bench seat body is mainly composed of plate, connecting plate and the support legs, described on to sit on the board there are links to open hole, described the connection plate is located in the on board as described above, down to the bottom of the connecting plate fixed connection Settings are described connecting shaft, described the connection plate and described by plate through a connecting shaft card fixed; Through hole on the bench and stool body open connections, add in the upper part of the bench seat body connection plate, connecting plate beneath the set has a connecting shaft connecting hole diameter is equal, in the class activities, will be connected by connecting shaft and connecting hole plate installed in the middle of the two bench seat body, connect multiple bench seat body together, make more children can play games together around the teacher, facilitates the management of the adult to the infant child, and facilitate the management of quality to foster children 's share close to each other at the same time.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The children in the kindergarten can touch the collective life since childhood, and kindergarten is the happy world of children. Linking Stool is designed according to the daily activities of the kindergarten, and Linking Stool has a round shape, especially the function to Linking Stool the stools with each other. Children can arbitrarily link the stools together, get close to each other, or play games around teachers, which is a process that children want.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 400mm x245mm x230mm
- Tags
- Baby, Stool, Cute, Kindergarten, Shared
- Production Technology
- teakwood
- Design Challenge
- The smoothness and precision of the wood.
- Research
- 1. Most kindergarten stool are used as independent furniture. As there are many children in kindergartens, the benches are placed in a scattered way.
2. The original kindergarten stool structure is relatively simple, which cannot meet the different needs in the process of kindergarten educational activities. - Inspiration
- I observed that when the kindergarten teacher played games with the children, the children often gathered around the teacher. I was inspired by the chain of the bicycle and wanted to design a kindergarten bench that could be Linked or disassembled quickly, so the Linking Stool came into being. At the same time, Linking Stool allows more kids to be more intimate and learn to share based on the combination.
- Project Duration
- The project started in April 2018 in Tianjin and finished in August 2018 in that place, and was exhibited in Shantou in September 2018.
- Operation Flow
- The utility model belongs to the stool technology field, especially for a can link each other through the chain structure of the stool, including the seat body, described a seat is mainly composed of plate, linking plate and the support legs, described on to sit on the board there are links to open hole, described the linking plate is located in the on board as described above, down to the bottom of the linking plate fixed connection Settings are described linking shaft, described the connection plate and described by plate through a linking shaft card fixed; Through hole on the bench and stool body open connections, add in the upper part of the stool seat body connection plate, linking plate beneath the set has a linking shaft linking hole diameter is equal, in the class activities, will be linked by linking shaft and linking hole plate installed in the middle of the two bench seat body, link multiple stool seat body together, make more children can play games together around the teacher, facilitates the management of the adult to the infant child.
- Patents
- Patented. Patent No.201920058555.X Bruce Tao. 2019. Jurisdiction
- Team Members
- Design leader: Bruce Tao
Designer: Xuhui Chen
Designer: Fubing Wang
Designer: Shailene Pu
Designer: Sai Tian - Image Credits
- Creator (Bruce Tao / Design Leader)
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