Little Locksmith Brinquedo Educativo by Qiongzhi Qian, Yibo Dai and Linling Shi

Little Locksmith Brinquedo Educativo by Qiongzhi Qian, Yibo Dai and Linling Shi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Ferro in Design de Brinquedos, Jogos e Produtos de Hobby Competition Category.

FerroBrinquedo· 2022

Little Locksmith Brinquedo Educativo

by Qiongzhi Qian, Yibo Dai and Linling Shi

Client: Ningbo Giant Tiger Co., Ltd

A' Design Award de Ferro Winner in Brinquedo Category

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The Design

About Little Locksmith Brinquedo Educativo

O Little Locksmith (Pequeno Serralheiro) é um brinquedo educativo em madeira destinado a crianças pequenas. O brinquedo reúne cinco conjuntos de chaves e fechaduras, cada um com um tema diferente: animais, frutas, clima, vida marinha e veículos. Cada cilindro aceita apenas uma chave, o que leva as crianças a exercitar o reconhecimento de formas e cores. Cada corpo de fechadura possui duas janelas: a janela superior exibe objetos relacionados ao tema e a janela inferior mostra uma cena correspondente, que muda ao girar uma roda. Cinco livros ilustrados apoiam a narração de histórias, e as fechaduras podem ser penduradas na parede para arrumação.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ferro

Little Locksmith Brinquedo Educativo 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 Little Locksmith Brinquedo Educativo 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, Little Locksmith Brinquedo Educativo 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: This is an industry-leading wooden educational toy with the combination of five sets of key and lock about different themes. It can not only provide interactive fun for parents and children, but also meet the requirements of children's multiple cognitive training, so as to develop and cultivate their imagination and manipulative ability. Besides, its exquisite appearances can help children understand the world more accurately.
Dimensions & Packaging: This product is cleverly designed with distinct animal-related elements at the lock handle, which is consistent with the cute animal shape on the key. The choice of bright colors is matched with contrasting color design, which not only attracts children's attention, but also integrates various cognitive exercises to save users' purchase costs.
Tags: Toy for kids
Production Technology: It fully combines cognition training and storytelling: the body of each lock has two windows that can be opened, the top window is the objects about the theme, and the bottom window is corresponding scene. For example, a snowflake and snowmen are on the top, while scenes of making snowmen are on the bottom.
Design Challenge: More importantly, the appearance of lock can be hung on the wall to perfectly blend into the indoor environment, which is also easy to store in daily life, bringing users a caring experience.
Research: Reference to children cognitive science
Inspiration: This product is inspired by key-switch: the five lock cylinders match keys of different shapes and colors, only the correct key can open it, which helps with the shape and color recognition of children. What's more, the five locks correspond to cognition of animals, fruits, weather, marine life and vehicles, including cognitive exercises for children under 3 years old, which can effectively enlighten and exercise their coordination ability of eye and hand.
Project Duration: The project finished in August 2021 in China
Operation Flow: In addition, parents can display different scenes by turning the scroll wheel in the bottom window, so that they can lead their children to find and identify the designated objects in the scene, and also tell them various interesting stories according to five attached picture-books.
Team Members: Qiongzhi Qian
Yibo Dai
Linling Shi