Little Locksmith Juguete educativo by Qiongzhi Qian, Yibo Dai and Linling Shi

Little Locksmith Juguete educativo by Qiongzhi Qian, Yibo Dai and Linling Shi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Hierro in Diseño de Juguetes, Juegos y Productos de Hobby Competition Category.

HierroJuguete· 2022

Little Locksmith Juguete educativo

by Qiongzhi Qian, Yibo Dai and Linling Shi

Client: Ningbo Giant Tiger Co., Ltd

A' Design Award de Hierro Winner in Juguete Category

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The Design

About Little Locksmith Juguete educativo

Little Locksmith es un juguete educativo de madera para niños pequeños. El juguete combina cinco juegos de llaves y cerraduras, cada uno con una temática diferente: animales, frutas, clima, vida marina y vehículos. Cada cilindro de cerradura admite una única llave, de modo que los niños practican el reconocimiento de formas y colores. Cada cuerpo de cerradura cuenta con dos ventanas: la superior muestra objetos vinculados a la temática y la inferior presenta una escena correspondiente que cambia al girar una rueda. Cinco libros ilustrados fomentan la narración de historias, y las cerraduras pueden colgarse en la pared para su almacenamiento.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Hierro

Little Locksmith Juguete educativo ha ganado el A' Design Award de Hierro, un reconocimiento prestigioso concedido a buenos diseños que cumplen los requisitos profesionales e industriales que se esperan de creaciones bien diseñadas. Los ganadores de Hierro demuestran gran habilidad, alta especialización, comprensión experta y capacidad creativa de sus creadores. Se espera que Little Locksmith Juguete educativo sea una creación muy apreciada, admirada y querida, práctica e innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Hierro integra las mejores prácticas del sector y tiene características técnicas competentes unidas a conocimiento práctico y talento. Little Locksmith Juguete educativo es respetado por su minuciosidad y está concebido para aportar mejoras en la calidad de vida que ayudan a hacer del mundo un lugar mejor.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: This is an industry-leading wooden educational toy with the combination of five sets of key and lock about different themes. It can not only provide interactive fun for parents and children, but also meet the requirements of children's multiple cognitive training, so as to develop and cultivate their imagination and manipulative ability. Besides, its exquisite appearances can help children understand the world more accurately.
Dimensions & Packaging: This product is cleverly designed with distinct animal-related elements at the lock handle, which is consistent with the cute animal shape on the key. The choice of bright colors is matched with contrasting color design, which not only attracts children's attention, but also integrates various cognitive exercises to save users' purchase costs.
Tags: Toy for kids
Production Technology: It fully combines cognition training and storytelling: the body of each lock has two windows that can be opened, the top window is the objects about the theme, and the bottom window is corresponding scene. For example, a snowflake and snowmen are on the top, while scenes of making snowmen are on the bottom.
Design Challenge: More importantly, the appearance of lock can be hung on the wall to perfectly blend into the indoor environment, which is also easy to store in daily life, bringing users a caring experience.
Research: Reference to children cognitive science
Inspiration: This product is inspired by key-switch: the five lock cylinders match keys of different shapes and colors, only the correct key can open it, which helps with the shape and color recognition of children. What's more, the five locks correspond to cognition of animals, fruits, weather, marine life and vehicles, including cognitive exercises for children under 3 years old, which can effectively enlighten and exercise their coordination ability of eye and hand.
Project Duration: The project finished in August 2021 in China
Operation Flow: In addition, parents can display different scenes by turning the scroll wheel in the bottom window, so that they can lead their children to find and identify the designated objects in the scene, and also tell them various interesting stories according to five attached picture-books.
Team Members: Qiongzhi Qian
Yibo Dai
Linling Shi