Ovo Melody Hana Nui: Mea Pāʻani Mele by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Ovo Melody Hana Nui: Mea Pāʻani Mele by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Hao in Hoʻolālā Mea Pāʻani, Pāʻani a me Lako Lealea Competition Category.

HaoMea Pāʻani· 2021

Ovo Melody Hana Nui: Mea Pāʻani Mele

by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Client: Size M design studio

A' Design Award Hao Winner in Mea Pāʻani Category

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The Design

About Ovo Melody Hana Nui: Mea Pāʻani Mele

Kikokikona Puke: ʻO Ovo Melody he mea pāʻani mele i hoʻolālāʻia no nā mea pāʻani o nā makahiki āpau me ka liʻiliʻi a i ʻole ka ʻike ʻole i ke mele. Hoʻonoho ʻia nā node ma luna o nā ala, a ʻo kekahi pōpō me kahi mea ʻike māneti e ʻōkuʻu iho ana a heluhelu i ka ikaika o kēlā me kēia māneti node no ka ʻike ʻana i ka pae mele. A laila, hoʻouna ʻia ka ʻikepili ma o ka Bluetooth i kahi kikowaena kumu, nāna e hoʻokani i ke kani. Loaʻa i ke kumu nā mea kani like ʻole, no laila hiki ke koho ʻia ka pū, ka piano, a i ʻole ke kīkā ma o ka hoʻololi ʻana i ka ʻāpana lalo. Hōʻailona ʻia kēlā me kēia ʻāpana a me nā kāleka aʻo me ka palapala Braille, no laila hiki nō hoʻi i ka poʻe make maka ke hana hou i nā mele i ʻike mua ʻia a i ʻole ke haku i nā mele hou.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Hao

Ua lanakila ka hoʻolālā Ovo Melody Hana Nui: Mea Pāʻani Mele i ka A' Design Award Hao, he ʻike hoʻohanohano i hāʻawi ʻia i nā hoʻolālā maikaʻi e hoʻokō ana i nā koi ʻoihana a ʻoihana hana i manaʻo ʻia mai nā mea hoʻokumu i hana maikaʻi ʻia. Hōʻike nā lanakila Hao i ka mākau nui, ka loea kiʻekiʻe, ka ʻike akamai a me ka hiki hana noʻeau o ka poʻe i hana iā lākou. Manaʻo ʻia ʻo ka hoʻolālā Ovo Melody Hana Nui: Mea Pāʻani Mele he mea hoʻokumu i mahalo nui ʻia, hoʻohiwahiwa ʻia a aloha ʻia e pono a hou. ʻO kēia hoʻolālā i lanakila i ka A' Design Award Hao e hoʻohui ana i nā hana maikaʻi loa o ka ʻoihana a loaʻa nā ʻano ʻenehana mākaukau i hui pū ʻia me ka ʻike hana a me ka makakoho. Mahalo ʻia ka hoʻolālā Ovo Melody Hana Nui: Mea Pāʻani Mele no kona nānā pono a ua hoʻolālā ʻia e hāʻawi i nā hoʻomaikaʻi ola e kōkua ai i ka hana ʻana i ka honua i wahi maikaʻi aku.

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