Cribbage Boards
Design: Nickelas Johnson
Client:
Date: 2011
Via our friends at Display Magazine.
1 comment December 17th, 2011
Games and Toys
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!
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
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.
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Children’s Rocking Horse
Design: Thomas Lamb
Client: Curvply, Peterborough and Ambiant
Date: 1969
Photo: The Design Exchange
Add comment February 18th, 2011
Lily 13 Doll
Design: Marina Bychkova
Client: Enchanted Doll
Date: 2010
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
