Concave-Convex ほぞ組みブロック by Shanghai Art and Design Academy is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 銅賞 in 玩具・ゲーム・ホビー製品デザイン Competition Category.
銅玩具· 2023
Concave-Convex ほぞ組みブロック
by Shanghai Art and Design Academy
Client: Shanghai Art and Design Academy
A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in 玩具 Category
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About Concave-Convex ほぞ組みブロック
「凹凸（コンケーブ・コンベックス）」は、幼児向けの木製積み木セットです。中国の伝統的なほぞ組み構造から着想を得た211ピースで構成され、角蟻ほぞや丁字ほぞなど30種類の継手形式に簡略化されています。ほぞ（凸）部分には濃い色のブラックウォールナット、ほぞ穴（凹）部分には明るい色のビーチ材を用いることで、両者を色で見分けられるようにしました。ブロックは木工機械で削り出し、仕上げは手作業で行っています。難易度は3段階に分かれ、単一の継手を合わせる遊びから大きな情景づくりまで、生後18か月から6歳以上までの子どもに対応します。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 銅賞
Concave-Convex ほぞ組みブロックは、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Concave-Convex ほぞ組みブロックは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Concave-Convex ほぞ組みブロックは、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The tenon and mortise building blocks are 211 pieces in total, extracted from the traditional Chinese tenon and mortise structure and simplified into 30 simple tenons and mortises (such as square dovetail, T-shaped tenon, etc.) suitable for young children to play. The tenon and mortise are made of dark black walnut wood and light beech wood, respectively. In the process of finding partners for each tenon, children can learn the wisdom of the ancients.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Package size: 220mm*195mm*280mm,
Material: Beech, Black Walnut - Tags
- Traditional culture, mortise and tenon structure, educational toys, preschool children
- Production Technology
- Woodworking machine carving and manual detail processing
- Design Challenge
- This toy has high requirements for the accuracy of mortise and tenon joint clearance. The joint between mortise and tenon cannot be too loose or too tight. The manual polishing process requires more costs.
- Research
- Mortise and tenon, it is a main structural method of traditional Chinese architecture, furniture and other instruments. It is a connection method combining concave-convex parts on the two components. The protruding part is called tenon (or tenon); The recessed part is called mortise (or mortise, mortise). The utility model is characterized in that the nail is not used on the object, and the mortise and tenon are used to reinforce the object.
- Inspiration
- The project takes Luban lock as the design source, and obtains new inspiration from the mortise and tenon structure of Chinese traditional culture. Luban lock is difficult to remove and build for the children under the age of 6 .Therefore, this project attempts to design by simplifying the mortise and tenon structure, combining mortise and tenon with building blocks. The goal is to encourage children over 1 year old to complete the free assembly of simple mortise and tenon.
- Project Duration
- Start in September 2022 and end in March 2023，Shanghai
- Operation Flow
- This set of building blocks simplifies the complicated details of traditional mortise and tenon in the design scheme, and simplifies 30 kinds of mortise and tenon structures as the main building source. The design has three levels of difficulty: basic version, advanced and high-level version.
1）The basic version is aimed at children over 18-month-old, finding the corresponding mortise and tenon for each color, understanding the mortise and tenon structure, and exercising the ability to solve problems;2）Based on the cognition of the mortise and tenon structure, the advanced version is suitable for children over 3 years old to play. With the specific material form as a reference, by assembling two or more basic mortise and tenon, the combination can be built into specific forms such as butterflies, sun, rockets, chairs, etc., to enhance children's graphic imagination and creativity;3）The high-level version is based on the mortise and tenon structure, and focuses on the modular design of building specific material forms, such as the construction of micro-architecture scenes, the construction of story theme background and other complex large-scale space construction, which improves children's spatial imagination and logical reasoning ability, and is suitable for children over 6 years old to challenge. - Patents
- Shanghai Art and Design Academy
- Image Credits
- Xiaoyang Feng
Huan Liu
Sha Yang
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