Chalk Pebbles Craie à dessiner by Rui Huang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award de Bronze in Fournitures d'Art Competition Category.
BronzeFournitures d'Art· 2025
Chalk Pebbles Craie à dessiner
by Rui Huang
Client: Xiamen University of Technology
A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Fournitures d'Art Category
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About Chalk Pebbles Craie à dessiner
Chalk Pebbles est un ensemble de craies à dessiner pour enfants, façonnées comme des galets de rivière. Chaque pièce présente une texture irrégulière et des bandes colorées obtenues à partir de poudres comestibles de fruits et de légumes. Sept degrés de dureté permettent aux enfants d'explorer les différences tactiles et de révéler les couches de couleur cachées. La craie marque directement les surfaces rugueuses et peut être brisée pour des jeux de construction libres. Humidifiée, elle s'utilise également comme médium aquarelle. Des matériaux de qualité alimentaire et un emballage dégradable garantissent la sécurité de l'enfant et le respect de l'environnement.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Bronze
Chalk Pebbles Craie à dessiner est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. Chalk Pebbles Craie à dessiner est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. Chalk Pebbles Craie à dessiner satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Chalk Pebbles is designed with the concept of nature as a teaching tool, inspired by the natural shapes of riverbed pebbles. Each piece features irregular textures and vibrant color bands made from vegetable-based pigments. With seven hardness levels, children can explore tactile gradients, revealing hidden color layers. The chalk also doubles as a watercolor medium when moistened. Chalk Pebbles reconnects children with nature in a poetic way, offering low-tech, high-sensory interaction in the digital age.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Individual: 56mmx42mmx23mm, 40mmx35mmx20mm, 50mmx38mmx18mm, 59mmx30mmx21mm, 58mmx26mmx21mm, 62mmx34mmx26mm, 70mmx50mmx25mm
Packaging: 264x142mm - Tags
- Stationery, natural materials, tactile experience, fine motor skills, children's development, eco-friendly design, sensory play, educational tools, hand-eye coordination, creative exploration
- Production Technology
- The components of this product are edible fruit and vegetable powders. The pebbles are made using a molding process with food-safe materials, combining starch and powdered pigments for adjustable hardness.
- Design Challenge
- The biggest challenge lies in the ratio of product ingredients, because different color simulations, surface textures, and hardness are required, so multiple tests are needed to optimize the user experience.
- Research
- Chalk Pebbles reimagines traditional chalk through nature-inspired design, combining edible vegetable pigments and riverbed pebble morphology to create a multi-sensory chalk for children. Through naturalistic observation, material testing, and questionnaire from 28 users，Open-ended interactions deepen children’s connection to ecological cycles. Future work will scale the play-learn-renew model to broader sustainability education contexts.
- Inspiration
- Bring the pebble elements of nature indoors to arouse curiosity and closeness to nature in educational scenes.
The unique texture and color changes of natural pebbles are retained in shape and material, allowing children to directly feel the beauty of nature through playing.
Environmentally friendly, edible raw materials and degradable packaging are used, which are friendly to the environment and concerned about children's safety. - Project Duration
- The project runs from March 2024 to February 2025 in Xiamen, China
- Operation Flow
- Paint directly onto rough surfaces.
Break apart and paint onto rough surfaces.
Smudge painted areas with a wet brush for a watercolor effect.
Use Chalk Pebbles or break them apart for free-building play. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Rui Huang, 2025.
- Team Members
- Rui Huang
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Designer Rui Huang, ChalkPebbles, 2025.
Image #2: Designer Rui Huang, ChalkPebbles, 2025.
Image #3: Designer Rui Huang, ChalkPebbles, 2025.
Image #4: Designer Rui Huang, ChalkPebbles, 2025.
Image #5: Designer Rui Huang, ChalkPebbles, 2025.
Video Credits: Designer Rui Huang, ChalkPebbles, 2025.
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