Ovo Melody Musikale Speelding by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Ovo Melody Musikale Speelding by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award in Yster in Speelgoed-, Speletjie- en Stokperdjieprodukte Ontwerp Competition Category.

YsterSpeelgoed· 2021

Ovo Melody Musikale Speelding

by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Client: Size M design studio

A' Design Award in Yster Winner in Speelgoed Category

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The Design

About Ovo Melody Musikale Speelding

Ovo Melody is 'n musikale speelding wat ontwerp is vir spelers van enige ouderdom met min of geen musiekkennis. Nodusse word op spore geplaas, en 'n bal met 'n magnetiese sensor rol af en lees die sterkte van elke nodusmagneet om die musiekskaal te identifiseer. Die data word dan via Bluetooth na 'n basisstasie gestuur, wat die klank speel. Die basis huisves verskillende instrumente, sodat trompet, klavier of kitaar gekies kan word deur die onderste deel om te ruil. Braille-notasie merk elke komponent en die instruksiekaarte, sodat visueel gestremde mense ook bekende melodieë kan herskep of nuwes kan komponeer.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Yster

Ovo Melody Musikale Speelding is 'n wenner van die A' Design Award in Yster, 'n prestigieuse erkenning wat toegeken word aan goeie ontwerpe wat voldoen aan die professionele en industriële vereistes wat van goed ontwerpte skeppings verwag word. Wenners in Yster toon groot vaardigheid, hoë spesialisasie, kundige begrip en die kreatiewe vermoë van hul skeppers. Daar word verwag dat Ovo Melody Musikale Speelding 'n hoog aangeskrewe, bewonderde en gekoesterde skepping is wat prakties en innoverend is. Hierdie ontwerp wat die A' Design Award in Yster gewen het, integreer die beste praktyke in die bedryf en het bekwame tegniese kenmerke gekoppel aan kundigheid en talent. Ovo Melody Musikale Speelding word gerespekteer vir sy deeglikheid en is ontwerp om verbeterings in lewensgehalte te bied wat help om die wêreld 'n beter plek te maak.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: By placing different nodes on the tracks, users can either recreate the music they heard before or make new music on their own.
The base contains different instruments, so by switching the bottom the music can be played by trumpet, piano, guitar etc. The designer wish to add a bit of fun when people stay home for the 14 days, during this epidemic.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 300mm x Depth 80mm x Height 390 mm
Tags: waronvirus, toydesign, visualdisibility, adesign, musictoy, stayhome
Production Technology: Each node has a magnet with a different strength, so the ball with a magnetic sensor inside can recognize the difference and judge the musical scale. After detecting, the ball transmits the data to the base station by Bluetooth to play music.
Design Challenge: Visual disable experience to the most challenging part of this project. Each part of the project are marked with braille notation. By trying the prototype, the team adjust the positions of braille, and show it as what present.
Research: The instructional cards are the musical scores of melodies in preset arrangements with movable square locators on each card to enable a visually impaired person to find the musical note on the card then to find the corresponding node to attach to the tracks.
Inspiration: This project started as a set of toy for anyone in any age/background to enjoy music, but it became much more than just a set of toy.
The concept of this project came from a well-known infant toy that put a ball on a track and the ball will slide down from the track.
Project Duration: The project started in 2019 in Taipei and planed to finish in Dec 2020.
Operation Flow: This toy instrument is made for preschool to adult players with little or no musical knowledge and specifically using braille notation it is for visually impaired person's enjoyment.
Team Members: Designers: Marco Guariglia, Jui Ju Lin
Engineers: Chih Hung Hsu, Keng Ju Lin, Ray Peng, Xerox Lin
Image Credits: Image #main: Marco Guariglia/2020/Taipei
Image #1: Marco Guariglia/2020/Taipei
Image #2: Marco Guariglia/2020/Taipei
Image #3: Marco Guariglia/2020/Taipei