Ovo Melody Galuega Autu: Meataalo Musika by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Ovo Melody Galuega Autu: Meataalo Musika by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Uʻamea in Mamanu Mea Ta'alo Competition Category.

UʻameaMea Ta'alo· 2021

Ovo Melody Galuega Autu: Meataalo Musika

by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Client: Size M design studio

A' Design Award Uʻamea Winner in Mea Ta'alo Category

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The Design

About Ovo Melody Galuega Autu: Meataalo Musika

Tusitusiga o le Tusi: O le Ovo Melody o se meataalo musika ua mamanuina mo tagata taʻalo o soo se tulaga matutua ma e itiiti pe leai foi se malamalama i le musika. O node e tuu i luga o ala, ma o se polo o loo i ai se masini vaʻaia maneta e taʻavale ifo ma faitau le malosi o le maneta o node taitasi ina ia iloa ai le fua faatatau musika. Ona auina atu lea o faʻamaumauga e ala i le Bluetooth i se nofoaga autu, lea e taina ai le leo. O le nofoaga autu e uu ai meafaifaaili eseese, o lea e mafai ai ona filifilia le trumpet, piano, po o le kitara e ala i le suia o le vaega i lalo. O faailoga Braille o loo faailogaina ai vaega taitasi faapea ma pepa faatonuga, ina ia mafai ai foi e tagata mataitiiti ona toe faia pese masani po o le fatuina o pese fou.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Uʻamea

O le A' Design Award Uʻamea na manumalo ai Ovo Melody Galuega Autu: Meataalo Musika, o se faamaoniga mamalu e tuuina atu i mamanu lelei e faataunuu ai manaʻoga faapolofesa ma pisinisi e faamoemoeina mai galuega ua mamanuina lelei. O ē manumalo i le Uʻamea e faaalia ai le tomai tele, le faapitoa maualuga, le malamalama o tagata poto ma le mafai fatufatuaʻi o ē na faia. E faamoemoeina Ovo Melody Galuega Autu: Meataalo Musika e avea ma mea ua matuā vivii, mataʻina ma pelepelea e aogā ma fou. O lenei mamanu na manumalo i le A' Design Award Uʻamea e tuufaatasia ai faiga sili o le pisinisi ma e iai uiga faatekonolosi mafai ua fesoʻotaʻi ma le poto ma le taleni. Ona o lona faatuatuaina, e tatau ai Ovo Melody Galuega Autu: Meataalo Musika ona faaaloalogia ma ua mamanuina e tuuina mai ai faaleleiga o le olaga e fesoasoani e faia ai e le lalolagi se nofoaga e sili atu ona lelei.

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