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Morrama launches mindful AI tools to support children’s mental health

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Morrama launches mindful AI tools to support children’s mental health

Design consultancy Morrama has introduced a set of innovative AI tool concepts aimed at supporting children aged six or older to manage emotions, e...
AI : Technology : Youth
Why Gaming is Your Next Brand Touchpoint

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Why Gaming is Your Next Brand Touchpoint

Matt Hay, founder of customer collaboration platform Bulbshare, explores how gaming has become the most prized category in the media landscape than...
Gaming : Technology : Consoles
London Design Festival 2023: Designing for Longevity

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London Design Festival 2023: Designing for Longevity

Three key themes emerged during London Design Festival 2023, each centring around the concept of designing for longevity.
Design : Health & Wellness : Technology
The Zalpha Reckoning

Macro Trends

The Zalpha Reckoning

A hybrid generation of Zalphas are entering brands’ consciousness. Wise beyond their years, these products of climate change are using their childh...
Youth : Media : Technology
Play-tail

Micro Trends

Play-tail

Retailers are targeting families with interiors dedicated to children’s play and engagement that help to ease shopper pain points and foster commun...
Retail : Architecture : Design
Stat: Children’s play upholds gender stereotypes

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Stat: Children’s play upholds gender stereotypes

New research by toy company Lego reveals that gender stereotypes remain prevalent in children’s play, with 71% of boys worrying that they will be t...
Youth : Society : Retail
Nendo’s self-driving cars for kids’ Edu-play-tion

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Nendo’s self-driving cars for kids’ Edu-play-tion

Coen Car is a concept design introducing children to autonomous vehicles, which also function as pieces of mobile and interactive playground equipm...
Youth : Mobility : Generation Alpha
Edu-play-tion

Micro Trends

Edu-play-tion

With parents of Generation Alpha now home educators, brands are elevating playtime with tools that combine digital and analogue learning.
Youth : Technology : Gen Alpha
Fanta’s tongue-in-cheek take on fitness ads

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Fanta’s tongue-in-cheek take on fitness ads

Fanta has released an ad entitled Idiots Are Amazing that subverts motivational fitness advertising.
Drinks : Fanta : Happiness
Lego promotes analogue play with 2D Dots

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Lego promotes analogue play with 2D Dots

Lego is experimenting with arts and crafts by using the 2D tile-based play concept Lego Dots.
Youth : Play : Design
Yoto is a screen-free interactive speaker for kids

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Yoto is a screen-free interactive speaker for kids

Independent design consultancy Pentagram has created the tactile, interactive audio player for children.
Youth : Technology : Branding
Parents need more free play time with their kids

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Parents need more free play time with their kids

A new study found that parents need to facilitate and spend more free play time with their children.
Youth : Play : Lego
Premium play spaces

Big Ideas

Premium play spaces

Created with the offspring of wealthy Millennials in mind, these luxury leisure spaces bring parents and children together for elevated bonding exp...
Youth : Luxury : Leisure
Lego creates Braille Bricks for more inclusive play

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Lego creates Braille Bricks for more inclusive play

The project will help blind and visually impaired children learn Braille in a playful environment.
Youth : Inclusivity : Design
Walmart creates an interactive online toy box

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Walmart creates an interactive online toy box

The retail giant's online toy lab allows children to virtually test and play with 20 of its top-rated toys.
Youth : Retail : Play
A play kit that transforms everyday objects into toys

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A play kit that transforms everyday objects into toys

Social enterprise Toyi has designed a maker kit enabling children to turn everyday items, such as water bottles and old boxes, into unique toys.
Youth : Play : Conscious Play
Thought-starter: How is eco-anxiety affecting the children’s toy market?

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Thought-starter: How is eco-anxiety affecting the children’s toy market?

With people increasingly aware of the impact of their consumption on the planet, toy brands are offering parents support in their quest to become m...
Youth : Play : Sustainability
Toio teaches children about robotics engineering through play

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Toio teaches children about robotics engineering through play

Japan – Sony has created programmable kinetic cubes that can be fitted with paper shapes to create different characters.
Technology : Product Design : Toys
The friendship game

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The friendship game

Paris – A new exhibition at Cité de la Mode et du Design examines the friendship- and community-building power of play.
Serendipity : The Flat Age Society : Play
Computer crèche

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Computer crèche

US – Fisher-Price has produced a video speculating on the relationship between parenting and play in 2025.
Continuum : The Future Of Parenting : Parenthood
Cute coding

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Cute coding

London – Cubetto is a wooden robot designed by toy and game manufacturer Primo that teaches children the principles of coding.
Cubetto : Arduino : Generation I
Carpet creativity

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Carpet creativity

Sydney – Global carpet tile brand Interface invited six multidisciplinary designers to create an immersive showroom for the 2015 Sydney Indesign fe...
Sydney Indesign : Beautiful Thinking : Interface
Save for later

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Save for later

London – Interactive design studio Sennep is keeping its ideas fresh and its skills sharp with Seeds, a platform dedicated to digital experimentation.
Sennep : Interactive Design : Experimentation
Generation I toys

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Generation I toys

London – Developers at Map and Made by Many have created the first computer you can throw, a smart, responsive ball designed fo...
Hackaball : Map And Made : Generation I
Down to Earth: Interactive app blends science and play

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Down to Earth: Interactive app blends science and play

Berkeley, California – Game designer Chaim Gingold has released Earth: A Primer, an iPad app that explores interconnected systems on Earth with an...
Earth: A Primer : Mobile Gaming : Whole-chain Thinking
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