Ovo Melody Brinquedo Musical by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Ovo Melody Brinquedo Musical by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award de Ferro in Design de Brinquedos, Jogos e Produtos de Hobby Competition Category.

FerroBrinquedo· 2021

Ovo Melody Brinquedo Musical

by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Client: Size M design studio

A' Design Award de Ferro Winner in Brinquedo Category

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The Design

About Ovo Melody Brinquedo Musical

O Ovo Melody é um brinquedo musical concebido para jogadores de qualquer idade, com pouco ou nenhum conhecimento musical. Os nós são colocados sobre as pistas e uma bola com sensor magnético desliza por elas, lendo a intensidade do íman de cada nó para identificar a escala musical. Os dados são depois enviados por Bluetooth para uma estação-base, que reproduz o som. A base comporta diferentes instrumentos, pelo que é possível selecionar trompete, piano ou guitarra bastando trocar a parte inferior. A notação em braille identifica cada componente e os cartões de instruções, permitindo que pessoas com deficiência visual também possam recriar melodias conhecidas ou compor novas.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ferro

Ovo Melody Brinquedo Musical conquistou o A' Design Award de Ferro, um reconhecimento prestigiado atribuído a bons designs que cumprem os requisitos profissionais e industriais esperados de criações bem concebidas. Os vencedores do Ferro demonstram grande habilidade, elevada especialização, compreensão especializada e capacidade criativa dos seus criadores. Espera-se que Ovo Melody Brinquedo Musical seja uma criação muito considerada, admirada e estimada, prática e inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Ferro integra as melhores práticas do setor e tem características técnicas competentes associadas a conhecimento especializado e talento. Pela sua minúcia, Ovo Melody Brinquedo Musical merece respeito e destina-se a proporcionar melhorias na qualidade de vida que ajudam a tornar o mundo num lugar 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