Ovo Melody 音樂玩具 by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Ovo Melody 音樂玩具 by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 玩具、遊戲及消閒產品設計 Competition Category.

鐵玩具· 2021

Ovo Melody 音樂玩具

by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin

Client: Size M design studio

A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 玩具 Category

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The Design

About Ovo Melody 音樂玩具

Ovo Melody係一款音樂玩具,專為任何年齡、對音樂知識認識不多甚至完全冇基礎嘅玩家而設計。用家將節點放置喺軌道上,一粒內置磁力感應器嘅波仔沿軌道滾落,讀取每個節點磁石嘅強度,從而識別對應嘅音階。呢啲數據會經藍牙傳送到底座裝置,由底座負責播放聲音。底座可以容納唔同嘅樂器組件,只需更換底部零件,就可以喺小號、鋼琴或結他之間自由切換。每個組件同說明卡上都刻有凸字盲文標記,令視障人士都可以重現熟悉嘅旋律,或者創作屬於自己嘅新樂曲。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鐵獎

Ovo Melody 音樂玩具是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計Ovo Melody 音樂玩具將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。Ovo Melody 音樂玩具因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。

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