This Animal Eye Chart by FL4Projects made me smile. It also comes in color. (You might recognize the Bunny!)
Fortress Desk
The Fortress is a fantastic children’s desk, designed by At-once for L’EDITO. I am sure my two year old would approve.
(via kidsroomzoom)
Lavabo Mons
These kids sinks by Romualdo Faura and Tengchuan Tey make me want to open a pre-school just so I can use them.
(via the all new Behance site)
Rainbow Confetti Garland
These Confetti Garlands by Kristine Osborne are stunning. My favorite: Rainbow Confetti!
Teddy Bear Toast
Every morning should start with Teddy Bear Toast.
Makerbot Replicator
I am drooling over The MakerBot Replicator, a personal 3D printer for your home. The thought of printing 3D makes my head explode.
I met Bre Pettis, co-founder of Makerbot, at a playground on saturday. Love the fact that I recognized him from these videos. Yay for Brooklyn!
Brooklyn Robot Foundry
Brooklyn Robot Foundry is a group of educators and technologists dedicated to helping Brooklyn children optimize their hands-on, technology-based learning experience. In other words: They’ll teach your kids how to build a robot. It doesn’t get much cooler than that.
(thank you Josh)
Bikes
Are you a bike enthusiast? If so, you’re probably going to like the Tattly we launched yesterday: Red Bike by Katie Evans, Let’s Ride by Mike Lowery, Pixel Bike by United Pixelworkers. Yay for spring and bike weather!
Buff Baby
This Rattle Dumbbell made me laugh.
Rolognese Spaghetti Fork
The Rolognese Spaghetti Fork would definitely put a smile on my daughter’s face.
GoVinci Backpack
The GoVinci Backpack features a clear frame that lets kids display their artwork. To add drawings simply undo the two top corners of the frame and slide in your tot’s colourful creation. Love it. This is quite the conversation starter on the way to school!
Beast
I have just fallen in love with Beast Pillow no.164. I dare you not to smile while looking at this little fellow.
Pillow Owl
How adorable is this Owl Pillow?
Milton Glaser inspired Birthday Cake
The above Milton Glaser inspired cake had me speechless a few weeks ago, while attending Holden’s 2nd birthday. Does it get any more awesome than this? I don’t think so.
My friends Matthew and Lori, Holden’s parents, made a 3D rendering (!) to make sure the folks at Betty Bakery know exactly what the cake should look like. Oh, you, graphic designer parents. Gotta love it! In case you don’t know what poster they are referencing, here you go.
For my next birthday, I want this cake.
Giant Soap Bubbles
Sylvain lives in Paris and makes bulles de savon géantes, giant soap bubbles!
(via The Kid Should See This)
Zig Zag Baskets
These Zig Zag Baskets make me happy.
The Egg Carton
You might not realize but Easter is approaching fast! April 8th is just around the corner.
That’s why we launched the Tattly Egg Carton today! It includes one dozen white plastic eggs, two each of Floppy Ears, Nerdy Bunny, Red Kicks, Freckles, Funny Bunny, and Good Bunny, and a cute carton to hold it all together. The eggs can be reopened in case you want to add a little extra fun in them!
If you’re not into plastic eggs, but more into handwritten notes, you can also buy Easter Card Sets.
Check out the entire Easter Collection. Bunnies make me happy!
InstaMatch
InstaMatch turns your Instagram photos into a virtual Memory game on your iPhone and iPad. Fun idea, will give it a try when I get home tonight! (You don’t need an Instagram account to play InstaMatch, you can use other public Instagram photos as well)
Wire Wheel Shirt
Now this is a t-shirt my son would love: OG Wire Wheels
Henri’s Walk to Paris
This lovely illustration is a page out of Saul Bass’ children’s book called Henri’s Walk to Paris. Discovered over on Brain Pickings, of course! Read the full post and see more pages.
Wooden Popsicle
This wooden popsicle made me chuckle. It was handmade in an edition of 150 by artist Johnny Hermann.
(via design milk)
Playgroundology
A Google Alert has pointed me to a blog called Playgroundology, and I am fascinated. A blog entirely dedicated to the world of playgrounds? Yes, please! Being a parent of small children I spend an awful lot of time on them and often wonder how they could be improved. Whenever I am traveling to other countries I am amazed at the differences in playground planning and thinking.
The Woodland Discovery Playground looks like quite a magical place.
Swings that create music?
And I couldn’t help but laugh while watching the above clip of a an adventure playground scene in the British documentary Seven Up. I would have thought it’s more of a construction site, compared to sterile-cookie-cutter-über-safe NYC playgrounds.
And then of course, there’s the Playground Papa classic. Made me laugh:
So, if you are like me, interested in all things Playgrounds, make sure to check out Playgroundology.
Toca House
I had the honor to meet Toca Boca co-founder Björn Jeffery yesterday. If you have little children and don’t know about Toca Boca listen up: They make the most amazing, well designed and fun iPhone and iPad games for children. My kids (and myself) are obsessed with them. My favorite is the Toca Hair Salon. My son’s current favorite is the Toca Kitchen and my daughter can’t stop playing with the Toca Store.
During our meeting yesterday Björn gave me a sneak peek of their latest game Toca House which is supposed to be ready at the end of this month. It’s going to get the kids excited about cleaning! YES!
Congrats to the folks over at Toca Boca for having created a brand that I love and don’t think twice about downloading new apps.
