Games and Toys

Cribbage Boards

Design: Nickelas Johnson
Client:
Date: 2011

Via our friends at Display Magazine.

1 comment December 17th, 2011

Crash Test Doll

Design: Melanie Baillairge
Client:
Date: 2010

Add comment October 22nd, 2011

Can-Am Minibike

Design:
Client: Can-Am
Date: 1974

Before Can-Am, Bombardier touched its toe into the bike market by rebadging European manufacturers as Bombardier products. Existing now only in small numbers, Italian made Garelli minibikes and two small motorcycles a 50cc and 70cc bikes were released in the early 70’s. Gary Scott, one of the original Can-Am development engineers, recently told me that a considerable number were originally sold in Hawaii as tourist rentals!

Via.

Add comment August 30th, 2011

Cutlets

Design: Jason and Lars Dressler
Client:
Date: 2010

Children’s mobile toys made from the off-cuts of production furniture.

Add comment July 4th, 2011

Muzo Collection

Design: Paige Russell
Client:
Date: 2011

3 comments May 21st, 2011

Building Blocks

Design:
Client: Ukoonto
Date: 2010

Add comment May 20th, 2011

Jolly Jumper

Design: Olivia Poole (1889 – 1975)
Client: Jolly Jumper
Date: 1959

“As a child Poole watched her elders strap their babies to cradle boards to carry them as ‘papooses’. Mothers would often hang the papoose on a sturdy tree limb and soothe the baby by pulling on the limb to cause a bouncing motion.

When her first child was born, she made him a swing and called it a Jolly Jumper. She made the harness or saddle from a cloth diaper and a blacksmith created a soft-action steel spring. An axe handle was used for the spreader bar. When grandchildren arrived, she continued to make Jolly Jumpers and by 1948 Jolly Jumpers were ready for mass production.”

Patented in 1957, this Canadian design is still being produced today in Mississauga, ON.

Source: Jolly Jumper History

1 comment May 1st, 2011

Rob Ford Voodoo Dolls

Design: Cleo Halfpenny
Client:
Date: 2011

Spoofing the Toronto Mayor and highlighting the growing anxiety around the latest voting results of the city.

Add comment April 12th, 2011

Sad Toy 1

Design: Ken Nicol
Client:
Date: 2007

Add comment March 2nd, 2011

Children’s Rocking Horse

Design: Thomas Lamb
Client: Curvply, Peterborough and Ambiant
Date: 1969

Photo: The Design Exchange

Add comment February 18th, 2011

Dolls

Design: Annie Ainarlik Parr
Client:
Date: 1988

Add comment January 27th, 2011

Rainbow birds

Design: Akane Saito
Client:
Date: 2007

Add comment December 3rd, 2010

Lily 13 Doll

Design: Marina Bychkova
Client: Enchanted Doll
Date: 2010

Via Enchanted Doll.

Add comment November 29th, 2010

An Imaginery Museum

Design: Jon Stam
Client:
Date: 2010

Hacking and updating a viewfinder, Stam brings this childhood toy into the conceptual digital age. Learn more about the research project at commonplace.nl.

Add comment October 13th, 2010

Colour the Box Packaging

Design: Alice Clair
Client:
Date: 2010

Add comment September 3rd, 2010

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