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Mixtu - A toy designed to invite children to create their own home-made paper-toy.
Designed during the the course:
Design for Children Play and Learning (ID5182)
Tutor: Mathieu A. Gielen (M.A.Gielen@tudelft.nl)
TU Delft – Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering
Conceived by
Ana Laura Santos // Integrated Product Design Master
Bernardo van de Schepop // Design for Interaction Master
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- Slide 1: A toy designed to invite children to
built their own home-made paper-toy
Designed during the the course:
Design for Children Play and Learning (ID5182)
Tutor: Mathieu A. Gielen (M.A.Gielen@tudelft.nl)
– Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering
Conceived by
Ana Laura Santos // Integrated Product Design Master
Bernardo van de Schepop // Design for Interaction Master
A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy
- Slide 2: Design Goal // Concept Development // Final Concept
Design Goal // Problem definition
Inspiration
• Emphasize that playful toys can born from
everything around, even from scrap materials;
The toy should
• Be a tool that implies the learning process;
• Could contribute to economic and social development;
• Stimulates environmental conscience;
Designers should
• Provide as much fun as possible during all play phases;
• Make-playing becomes a learning activity;
• Offer a self-explanatory toy design (avoid instructions);
A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy
- Slide 3: Design Goal // Concept Development // Final Concept
Development // First Ideas
Starting points
• Use raw-disposable materials
(PET, Paper, aluminum cans);
• Offer a set of shapes that could
compound a home-made building kit;
Early Stages
• How to offer a mixer that is
not dangerous or powered?
• How to not give instructions?
A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy
- Slide 4: Development // Trials
Experiential prototype
• The paper got stuck in small
shapes;
• The free-from shape do not work
during the drying process;
Recommendations
• Bucket should help the grabbing
and the mixing process;
• Mixer should have feet/support;
• Shapes should be simplified;
• Extra tools might help the child;
• To be hand-mixed the pulp receipt
should be fluid and easy to mix;
• Inside shapes migh help to press
the water out.
A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy
- Slide 5: Final Concept //
A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy
- Slide 6: Design Goal // Concept Development // Final Concept
Final Concept //
Target group
• 06 - 12 years old:
Use environment
• Home or outdoors;
Materials involved
• Parts: plastic;
• Mixture: paper and water (no glue or
chemicals involved);
Type of play involved (in order)
• Sensopatic: preparing the mixture;
• Construction: making “paper-cookies”;
• thus, Role and fantasy play;
A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy
- Slide 7: Design Goal // Concept Development // Final Concept
Final Concept //
Less is more
• One spatula was designed in a way that it can help to
press the water out without demanding inside shapes
originally used in the first trials;
• The mixer and the spatula showed to be enough, no
extra tools were needed.
• The toy offers complementary shapes;
A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy
- Slide 8: Design Goal // Concept Development // Final Concept
Final Concept //
A self-explanatory toy
• Arrows blades designed to invite movement;
• Paper quantity pre-defined in the top;
• Water level marked inside;
Bucket-Shape
• Finger path to help on grabbing the pulp inside the bucket;
• Swing to easily take out not used pulp;
A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy
- Slide 9: Design Goal // Concept Development // Final Concept
Juegos Falomir and
The toy perfectly fits to Falomir’s catalogue because
• It involves educational activities, inviting to recycle paper,
increasing the awareness about environmental issues;
• It stimulates construction-play activity as other
manufacture’s toys;
• It requires manual skills involved in a pleasurable
materials playing activity as SuperTorno does.
• Strategically it also could offer extra sets with
shapes and paint to help the kid to finalize their
home-made paper-toys;
A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy
- Slide 10: Design Goal // Concept Development // Final Concept
Final Concept // Needs
still demands
• User testing with children using the final tool-set;
• Improvements on stability and portability;
• Adjustments on quantity of paper and water
required for a easy-to-mix paper pulp;
It also demands packaging design
• The final package could use paper that could
be torn and used in the first recycling-paper
experience with the toy;
Potential accidents to be prevented
• One child can drop the bucket full of water on his/her feet;
• Some types of inks on magazine and newspaper might be toxic*.
* Until 10 years ago, lead, cadmium and other toxic heavy metals were commonly used in paper inks. Now, however, most
publishers use organic pigments. Most of these pigments are the same as those used in tattoos, lipstick, hair coloring and other
cosmetics.
A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy
- Slide 11: Thank you!
Team
Ana Laura Santos // Integrated Product Design Master
Bernardo van de Schepop // Design for Interaction Master
A toy designed to invite children to built their own home-made paper-toy