Hair Salon 动物玩具 by Yi-Teng Shih,Vincent Mao and Jay Li is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 玩具、游戏与业余爱好产品设计 Competition Category.
铜玩具· 2021
Hair Salon 动物玩具
by Yi-Teng Shih,Vincent Mao and Jay Li
Client: PolyU Design
A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 玩具 Category
Verified Award Winner
Verify Award Status for #119469The Design
About Hair Salon 动物玩具
团队设计了四种可爱的动物造型，让孩子们学习认识不同的动物，并创作不同的发型，培养自己的手工技能。团队在动物的底部制作了大面积的压力板，以便孩子们可以轻松操作。孩子们需要将面团放入动物玩具内，通过挤压，将面团的毛发挤出并修剪。面团是一种可以重复使用的材料。此外，该玩具适合与其他人（例如朋友和父母）一起玩耍，并通过制作有趣的头发来创造很多乐趣。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 铜奖
Hair Salon 动物玩具是 A' Design Award 铜奖得主，这是授予以创造力、独创性和敏锐见长的杰出设计的极具声望的认可。铜奖得主是技艺娴熟、创意惊人的作品，印证了其设计师丰富的经验、想象力与机智。预计Hair Salon 动物玩具将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的物品，兼具显著的专业性与创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铜奖的设计融入艺术、科学、设计和技术领域的最佳实践，并因注重细节而出类拔萃。Hair Salon 动物玩具出色地满足需求，触动渴望，迷住情感，并吸引好奇心。
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The unique properties are to make children become dough hairdressers giving full play to their creativity to design different hair styles for animals. It is very important to cultivate children's hands-on skills. It is hoped that through the process of making animal hairstyles, the six abilities of children can be improved: creativity, concentration, cognition, logic, aesthetics and expression. Trying to make animal hairstyles is an experimental process and kids can play together.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 10cm x 8cm x 5cm for each animal size.
- Tags
- Dough, animal hair design, Series design, sustainable toy, hands-on skill
- Production Technology
- The material of this toy is plastic and is made by injection molding.
- Design Challenge
- Taking leading the growth of children's aesthetics as the project mission, the toy that integrates art (Art), games (Play) and imagination (Think), and is committed to children's aesthetic toys and aesthetic education. In order to reduce fixation of children thinking, we designed four cute animal shapes. For example, children can dress the sheep toy into ewe, ram or punk sheep, so that they can freely create their own style for the toy.
- Research
- Dough is a material that is easy to shape; however, children need to create artifacts from scratch. This may make some children less motivated to play the dough. To solve this problem, we designed four cute animal shapes so children can learn to understand different animals and creative different hair styles for them to develop their own craft skills.
- Inspiration
- It is very important to cultivate children's hands-on skills. Children can dress the sheep toy into ewe, ram or punk sheep, so that they can freely create their own style for the toy. The toy is suitable for playing with other people, such as friends and parents, and creates a lot of fun by making funny hair. The dough can be reused and does not require electricity, so it is a sustainable toy.
- Project Duration
- Duration: January 2019 to January 2021.
Location: Hong Kong and Ningbo. - Operation Flow
- Since this is a new toy launched, it has already received some good responses. “My son usually gets bored after playing with toys a few times. But this dough salon toy, he can play again and again, especially during epidemics.” Children need to put the dough in the animal toy, and through squeezing, the hair will be squeezed out. Dough is a material that can be reused. The dough will dry out after a period of use, but just add a little water to restore its original elasticity. This reuse material will benefit both users and environment.
- Team Members
- PolyU Design: Dr Yi-Teng Shih
Ningbo MiroKids Toys Co.,Ltd: Mr Vincent Mao
Mr Jay Li
Ms Gana Xu - Image Credits
- Mr Vincent Mao, Dr Yi-Teng Shih, Mr Jay Li, Ms Gana Xu
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