The New York Times has an incredible issue out with all kinds of neat articles on design, marketing and product development for a kid audience. The overall tone of the articles is kind of cautionary though -- definitely worth a read. IDFuel has a reaction to a couple of the stories with a little toy designer's perspective thrown in.


http://www.idfuel.com/index.php?p=338&more=1&c=1

http://www.core77.com/corehome/2004/12/negative-design-and-marketing-to-kids.html

...or here Carsten Höller 1997 for the Tate Modern...the faster way...!

an alternative to boring stairs and elevators!?
artist carsten höller for the museum kunst-werke in berlin...the slide is part of the museum since 1998 and a great success...not only for children...
i think fun&play in urban or public spaces ist becoming rare these days...!

http://www.kw-berlin.de/english/about_frameset.htm

citymine(d) //the ball is a tool to make it impossible to overlook the young people who use urban space: in this case cars have to be careful for children instead of the other way round...

http://www.citymined.org/projects/ball.php

http://www.laptop.org/en/index.shtml

exploring . expressing . learning

this is a great link about the topic of children and education in the future/ one laptop per child

http://laptop.org/

FURNITURE FOR KIDS

http://www.modoloco.com/HTM/Industrial/Kitchen/Kitchen.htm

A4A cardboard furniture

http://www.a4adesign.it

Details Magazine on children space

http://www.detail.de/rw_5_Archive_En_HoleHeft_203_ErgebnisHeft.htm

FUJI KINDERGARTEN

please visit this link
www.monocle.com/sections/design/Web-Articles/Fuji-Kindergarten

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