Ovo Melody Munus Praecipuum: Ludicrum Musicum by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum in Crepundium Competition Category.
FerrumCrepundium· 2021
Ovo Melody Munus Praecipuum: Ludicrum Musicum
by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin
Client: Size M design studio
Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum Winner in Crepundium Category
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The Design
About Ovo Melody Munus Praecipuum: Ludicrum Musicum
Textus Libri: Ovo Melody est ludicrum musicum lusoribus cuiuslibet aetatis destinatum, exigua vel nulla musicae scientia praeditis. Nodi in semitis collocantur, et globus sensu magnetico instructus deorsum volvens vim cuiusque magnetis nodi legit ut scalam musicam agnoscat. Data deinde per Bluetooth ad stationem principalem mittuntur, quae sonum reddit. Statio varia instrumenta continet, ita ut tuba, cithara plana vel fides eligi possint parte inferiore commutata. Notae Braille singulas partes et chartas instructionum signant, ut etiam caeci vel visu debiles melodias notas recreare vel novas componere possint.
The Recognition
About the Praemium A' Design Award Ferreum
Ovo Melody Munus Praecipuum: Ludicrum Musicum victor est Praemii A' Design Award Ferreum, honoris amplissimi formis bonis dati, quae postulatis professionalibus et industrialibus ab creationibus bene formatis exspectatis satisfaciunt. Victores Ferrei magnam peritiam, altam specializationem, intellectum periti et facultatem creandi auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Ovo Melody Munus Praecipuum: Ludicrum Musicum creationem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, practicam et novam fore. Haec forma Ferreo victa optimas industriae consuetudines integrat et proprietates technicas idoneas, cum scientia et talento coniunctas, habet. Ovo Melody Munus Praecipuum: Ludicrum Musicum ob diligentiam suam honoratur et ad vitae qualitatem emendandam formatum est, ut mundum meliorem reddere iuvet.
Behind the Design
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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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