Ovo Melody Foncion Primària: Jòguet Musical by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Ovo Melody Foncion Primària: Jòguet Musical by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Fèrre in Joguèt Competition Category.

FèrreJoguèt· 2021

Ovo Melody Foncion Primària: Jòguet Musical

by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Client: Size M design studio

A' Design Award de Fèrre Winner in Joguèt Category

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The Design

About Ovo Melody Foncion Primària: Jòguet Musical

Tèxte del Libre: Ovo Melody es un jòguet musical concebut per de joguaires de tot atge amb pauc o gaire de coneissença musicala. De nòdes son plaçats sus de rails, e una bala amb un sensor magnetic devala e legís la fòrça de cada magnet de nòde per identificar l'escala musicala. Las donadas son puèi enviadas per Bluetooth a una estacion de basa, que jòga lo son. La basa conten diferents instruments, atal la trompeta, lo piano o la guitarra pòdon èsser seleccionats en cambiant la partida bassa. Una notacion en braille marca cada compausant e las cartas d'instruccions, de sòrta que las personas mal-vesentas pòdon tanben recrear de melodiás conegudas o ne compausar de novèlas.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Fèrre

Ovo Melody Foncion Primària: Jòguet Musical a ganhat la distincion A' Design Award de Fèrre, una reconeissença prestigiosa acordada a de bons designs que respondon a las exigéncias professionalas e industrialas esperadas de creacions plan concebudas. Los ganhaires del Fèrre demòstran una granda abilitat, una nauta especializacion, una comprenedura d'expèrt e la capacitat creativa de lors creators. S'espèra que Ovo Melody Foncion Primària: Jòguet Musical siá una creacion fòrça considerada, admirada e estimada, practica e innovanta. Aqueste design ganhaire de la distincion A' Design Award de Fèrre integra las melhoras practicas del sector e a de caracteristicas tecnicas competentas ligadas a un saber-far e a un talent. Per son rigor, Ovo Melody Foncion Primària: Jòguet Musical merita lo respècte e es destinat a aportar de melhoraments a la qualitat de la vida que ajudan a far del mond un luòc melhor.

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