Ovo Melody 音乐玩具 by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Ovo Melody 音乐玩具 by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 玩具、游戏与业余爱好产品设计 Competition Category.

铁玩具· 2021

Ovo Melody 音乐玩具

by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Client: Size M design studio

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 玩具 Category

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The Design

About Ovo Melody 音乐玩具

Ovo Melody 是一款面向任何年龄段、几乎无需音乐基础的玩家所设计的音乐玩具。将音符节点放置在轨道上，内置磁感应器的小球滚落时会读取每个节点磁铁的磁力强度，从而识别对应的音阶。数据随后通过蓝牙传送至基站，由基站播放声音。基站可容纳不同乐器，只需更换底部组件，即可选择小号、钢琴或吉他。每个部件与说明卡片上均标有盲文，视障人士也能重现熟悉的旋律或创作全新的乐曲。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

Ovo Melody 音乐玩具是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计Ovo Melody 音乐玩具将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。Ovo Melody 音乐玩具因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。

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