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Leoleo Kids Multifunction Play Tower Manufan Farko: Hasumiyar Wasa mai Yawan Ayyuka don Yara by Dan Popa

Leoleo Kids Multifunction Play Tower Manufan Farko: Hasumiyar Wasa mai Yawan Ayyuka don Yara by Dan Popa is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Kyautar A' Design Award ta Tagulla in Kayan Jariri Competition Category.


TagullaKayan Jariri· 2021

Leoleo Kids Multifunction Play Tower Manufan Farko: Hasumiyar Wasa mai Yawan Ayyuka don Yara

by Dan Popa

Client: Leea Toys

Kyautar A' Design Award ta Tagulla Winner in Kayan Jariri Category

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The Design

About Leoleo Kids Multifunction Play Tower Manufan Farko: Hasumiyar Wasa mai Yawan Ayyuka don Yara

Rubutun Littafi: Leoleo hasumiya ce ta wasa mai yawan ayyuka wadda aka tsara don kananan yara. Leoleo ta kunshi kayayyaki kadan da za a iya sake hadawa ba tare da amfani da kayan aiki ko makullai ba. Tsare-tsare daban-daban suna samar da hasumiyar kallo, tebur na ayyuka, madubi (slide), allon rubutu, kujerar kadaita ko babbar kujera mai tebur na ciyarwa. Ana iya kara kayan haɗi kamar allunan ayyuka, keke mai hannun-riko, da karamar kicin. Ana yanke kayayyakin daga katakon birch mai kauri na milimita 15, ana kuma yi musu fenti ko lacquer. An zagaya gefuna da kusurwoyi don tabbatar da tsaro. Leoleo tana ceton wuri da kayan aiki ta hanyar maye gurbin abubuwa da dama daban-daban.

The Recognition

About the Kyautar A' Design Award ta Tagulla

Zanen Leoleo Kids Multifunction Play Tower Manufan Farko: Hasumiyar Wasa mai Yawan Ayyuka don Yara ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Tagulla, wata karramawa mai tsananin daraja da ake bai wa zane-zane na musamman waɗanda ke da ƙirƙira, basira da hikima. Waɗanda suka lashe kyautar Tagulla kayayyakin fasaha ne masu ƙwarewa da ƙirƙira mai ban mamaki waɗanda ke tabbatar da babban gogewa, tunani da dabarun masu zanensu. Ana sa ran zanen Leoleo Kids Multifunction Play Tower Manufan Farko: Hasumiyar Wasa mai Yawan Ayyuka don Yara ya zama abu da ake girmamawa sosai, ake sha'awa da ƙauna, mai ƙwarewa da ƙirƙire-ƙirƙire. Wannan zane da ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Tagulla yana haɗa mafi kyawun ayyuka a fasaha, kimiyya, zane da fasahar zamani, kuma yana da kyau saboda kulawarsa ga cikakkun bayanai. Zanen Leoleo Kids Multifunction Play Tower Manufan Farko: Hasumiyar Wasa mai Yawan Ayyuka don Yara yana biyan buƙatu da kyau, yana taɓa sha'awa, yana jan hankalin zukata kuma yana jawo sha'awar sani.

Behind the Design

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

Unique Properties
Leoleo is a hyper functional and playful piece of furniture designed for a small child's care, education, skills development and entertainment. It consists of parts that can be recombined in many ways, thus obtaining different functionalities. It can be an observation tower (learningtower), an activity desk, a slide/ramp, a blackboard, a rocking chair, a high chair with feeding table. Accessories can be added (activity boards, a wheel with handlebar, a kitchen). Leoleo saves space and material.
Dimensions & Packaging
98/40/40 in standing setup / tower setup, / baby chair setup
75/40/50 in rocking chair setup
98/70/40 in slide setup
Tags
multifunctional, learning tower, slide, kids, toddlers, activity desk, high chair,
Production Technology
I have used mainly 15mm thick Birch plywood, cut with CNC technology, laquered or painted. Design is created in Autocad. Some parts are hardwood.
Design Challenge
To create an object that is hyper-useful, but also aesthetic, safe, durable and relatively easy to produce. To limit its parts to only the essential by expanding its functions as much as possible.
Research
Research was done through observation, trials, feedback from users.

Systematic research was made for years, by continuously modifying and adding features, functions, improving functionality, safety and ergonomy. The product was tested in real life situations for each and every step of development.

This project is a challenge to accomplish more with less. Its philosophy originates from the following ideas:
- everything in nature is made of atoms. But there are so few atoms comparing to the diversity of material expression of nature. So, with only a few types of building bricks, you can build an entire world. Everything depends on the relationship between the component parts.

Similarly, every atom is made of a small number elementary particles. Atoms are so unique and different, but still they are made of the same few components.

I find this idea of building anything out of just a few parts fascinating, practical, and unifying. The parts themselves, you can change their role depending on the needs and the situation. So, no more unused objects, all its parts can be re-used! It is a recycling idea taken to another level, in my opinion.

Leoleo wants to have a minimal amount of parts, that, combined in different ways will get the user to very different results.
For the long term, Leoleo wants to become a system, an environment complex enough to start evolving on its own. This means that the users will start recombining Leoleo's parts in ways its creator never has imagined, and this process can go on and develop to infinity.
Inspiration
Leoleo was created by a father trying to solve the real problems that modern parenting faces:
- to provide inspiration for parents in setting diverse educational activities for kids
- to decrease the big number of physical objects needed for a limited period of time in order to entertain and educate a growing child
- to keep kids away from screens
- to make physical reality interesting again
- to provide context for adult-child interaction and connection
Project Duration
The project started in January 2015 in Bucharest, Romania, and was exhibited in 2017 Romanian Design Award event, where it received recognition from Dezeen magazine.
Operation Flow
This object transforms by recombining its parts, re-assembling a finite number of parts. The user receives a number of plywood parts that are cut in such way that they can be assembled together in many ways. It requires a minimum innitial assembly to form a base structure. By adding or removing planks, wheels, boards, the base changes function. There is no need to use keys or any tools in the process.
Patents
Design registered with Euipo , RCD 007793625-0001 /06.04 2020, design holder Dan Popa
Team Members
Dan Popa
Vlad Nicoara
Image Credits
Catalin Nastase, Photographer
Cristtina Anculete, Photographer

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