Design Peek

Design Peek

Design Peek featuring great design, architecture, fashion, graphics and innovation from across the globe.

 

Small dogs

Unique is the sentiment which inspired the object and urged my instinctive creativity, my daughter’s desire for a dog. Normally, I put attention to the little things, little daily needs, little emotions, in this way I create healthy, pure and simple objects, aimed at the satisfaction of children and pleasantly useful for adults. Small Dog it’s not only a toy, or the concretization of a child's dreams: it’s so useful that it goes everywhere … walking… around the house.

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DIY Mini Press

This is the do it yourself Mini Etching Press kit, part of the Halfwood Press line of etching presses. It is made so that it can be packed in a compact box for mailing. Owners need about an hour for assembly. The kit has a user manual, felt blankets for intaglio printing and a chase for relief printing. Besides etchings and linoleum blocks users print lithographic, stencil, mono types and mono prints. This personal size press is youth friendly and capable of professional quality prints by experienced printmakers. The printed user manual is interactive with QR codes to link owners online.

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Brickle C

Brickle C is a small set of colored cork building blocks. They can be stowed in a handbag. They are used from Managers in Office Meetings and from Mummies when they are in a cafe with their children. The material characteristic of Cork do allow to build complex constructions due to the adhesive surface structure of cork. With KORXX young children are able to realize their imagination without getting lost in too much failure. As the materials does also have a light weight it is safe and silent in play.

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Mastodonts

At wodibow they believe that toys can mix design with being 100% natural. Mastodonts is a family of wooden magnetic animals inspired in architecture. From 1 body you can build 4 animals just by changing the heads, mouths and ears. No plastic, no paint, no varnish nor glue. It is all beech wood and magnets and finished with wax made of olive oil and beeswax. It is presented in a box made of poplar. They include a cloth and a tin of wax to maintain the Mastodonts. They design and produce in Spain to double-check every one of the pieces they make. To produce they use hi-tech CNC machinery.

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Thea

MENUT is a design studio focused in kids design, with the clear objective of gapping the bridge with the one for adults. Our philosophy is to offer an innovative vision on the way of life of a contemporary family. We present THEA, a theatre chair. Sit down and paint; create your story; and call your friends! THEA's focal point is the back, which can be used as a stage. There is a drawer in the bottom part, which once opened conceals the backside of the chair and allows some privacy for the ‘puppeteer’. Kids will find finger puppets in the drawer to stage shows with their friends.

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paintable

Paintable is a multifunction table for everyone, it could be an ordinary table, a drawing table, or a musical instrument. You can use different kind of colors to paint on the table surface to create music with your friends or families, and the surface will transfer drawing to become melody by color sensors. There are two drawing ways, creative drawing and music note drawing, kids can draw anything they want to create random music or use the rule we design to fill color on specific position to make nursery rhyme.

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