Linking Stool 儿童座椅 by Bruce Tao is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 A' Design Award 铜奖 in 婴儿、儿童产品设计 Competition Category.

铜婴儿产品· 2019

Linking Stool 儿童座椅

by Bruce Tao

Client: Bruce Tao

A' Design Award 铜奖 Winner in 婴儿产品 Category

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The Design

About Linking Stool 儿童座椅

连接凳是一款专为幼儿园使用而设计的无靠背座椅。座面呈圆形，采用柚木制成，尺寸为400×245×230毫米。连接板与连接轴可嵌入座椅上的孔位，因此多个单元能够快速拼接或分离。该连接系统的灵感源自自行车链条。拼接后的座椅让孩子们能够紧挨着坐在一起，围绕老师开展游戏活动。这一设计还使座椅摆放整齐有序而非杂乱散落，有助于对集体活动的看护与管理。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铜奖

Linking Stool 儿童座椅是 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Linking Stool 儿童座椅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。Linking Stool 儿童座椅出色地满足需求，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 children in the kindergarten can touch the collective life since childhood, and kindergarten is the happy world of children. Linking Stool is designed according to the daily activities of the kindergarten, and Linking Stool has a round shape, especially the function to Linking Stool the stools with each other. Children can arbitrarily link the stools together, get close to each other, or play games around teachers, which is a process that children want.
Dimensions & Packaging: 400mm x245mm x230mm
Tags: Baby, Stool, Cute, Kindergarten, Shared
Production Technology: teakwood
Design Challenge: The smoothness and precision of the wood.
Research: 1. Most kindergarten stool are used as independent furniture. As there are many children in kindergartens, the benches are placed in a scattered way.
2. The original kindergarten stool structure is relatively simple, which cannot meet the different needs in the process of kindergarten educational activities.
Inspiration: I observed that when the kindergarten teacher played games with the children, the children often gathered around the teacher. I was inspired by the chain of the bicycle and wanted to design a kindergarten bench that could be Linked or disassembled quickly, so the Linking Stool came into being. At the same time, Linking Stool allows more kids to be more intimate and learn to share based on the combination.
Project Duration: The project started in April 2018 in Tianjin and finished in August 2018 in that place, and was exhibited in Shantou in September 2018.
Operation Flow: The utility model belongs to the stool technology field, especially for a can link each other through the chain structure of the stool, including the seat body, described a seat is mainly composed of plate, linking plate and the support legs, described on to sit on the board there are links to open hole, described the linking plate is located in the on board as described above, down to the bottom of the linking plate fixed connection Settings are described linking shaft, described the connection plate and described by plate through a linking shaft card fixed; Through hole on the bench and stool body open connections, add in the upper part of the stool seat body connection plate, linking plate beneath the set has a linking shaft linking hole diameter is equal, in the class activities, will be linked by linking shaft and linking hole plate installed in the middle of the two bench seat body, link multiple stool seat body together, make more children can play games together around the teacher, facilitates the management of the adult to the infant child.
Patents: Patented. Patent No.201920058555.X Bruce Tao. 2019. Jurisdiction
Team Members: Design leader: Bruce Tao
Designer: Xuhui Chen
Designer: Fubing Wang
Designer: Shailene Pu
Designer: Sai Tian
Image Credits: Creator (Bruce Tao / Design Leader)