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Ovo Melody 音楽玩具 by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Ovo Melody 音楽玩具 by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in 玩具・ゲーム・ホビー製品デザイン Competition Category.


鉄玩具· 2021

Ovo Melody 音楽玩具

by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Client: Size M design studio

A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in 玩具 Category

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The Design

About Ovo Melody 音楽玩具

Ovo Melodyは、音楽の知識がほとんど、あるいはまったくない、あらゆる年齢のプレイヤーのために設計された音楽玩具です。トラック上にノード(音符ブロック)を配置すると、磁気センサーを内蔵したボールが転がり落ちながら各ノードの磁力の強さを読み取り、音階を識別します。そのデータはBluetoothでベースステーションに送信され、音が再生されます。ベースには複数の楽器が内蔵されており、下部を交換することでトランペット、ピアノ、ギターを選択できます。各パーツと説明カードには点字表記が施されているため、視覚に障がいのある方も、よく知られたメロディーを再現したり、新しい曲を作曲したりすることができます。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鉄賞

Ovo Melody 音楽玩具は、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。Ovo Melody 音楽玩具は、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。Ovo Melody 音楽玩具は、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。

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

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