Iron Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design · 2021
Glay Smart Kids Wardrobe
by Marco Guariglia and Jui Ju Lin
- A' Design Award 2021 Iron Winner in Baby, Kids' and Children's Products Design
- Awarded April 15, 2021
- CLIENT: Size M Design
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 12,494
- Verification code 921B657DAF · Verify this award
About Glay Smart Kids Wardrobe
Glay is a smart wardrobe designed for children. The unit measures 1500 mm in width, 600 mm in depth and 1200 mm in height. One door is made with electronic paper and serves as a drawing board, a coloring board and a screen for simple games. The wooden door surface has holes for building blocks, letters and numbers. A frame pulls out to form a small play room, and a table and two riding chairs are included. Parents can change the door patterns through a wireless link, so children can see when sleep time is near while keeping clothes tidy.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- This closet gives children imagination to create the atmosphere they want. They can transform the closet to play inside, can do coloring, and can arrange their clothes with it. It has also a frame for pulling out to be a secret play room, a table to write and two riding chairs.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Width 1500mm x Depth 600mm x Height 1200mm
- Tags
- Smartfurniture, maltyfunction, kidsfurniture, adesignaward, waronvirus, stayhome, marcoguariglia
- Production Technology
- The e door corroborated with E ink Cor. using e paper in the new area of kids furniture which is not often considered. It can be used as a drawing board, coloring board with bear patterns and shooting games. The wood surface of the door has holes for playing blocks, training logical thinking from 2D to 3D or practice numbers and the alphabet with it.
- Design Challenge
- Using e paper on the surface made this project big enough to need a team of engineers and carpentors to work with, challenging their abilities and overcoming their reluctance to deal with Glay, which became a learning experience for all involved.
- Project Duration
- The project started in December 2017 in Taipei and finished in April 2018 in Taipei, and was exhibited in Salone del Mobile in April 2018, Milan, Italy. At 2019, it was awarded by Good Design Award Chicago, U.S.A.
- Operation Flow
- Through blue tooth, parents can control the digital door color and patterns. The house work timer function could be arranged in the phone calendar as well. The designer wants to let kids know their sleep time is close by seeing the changing patterns on the door.
- Research
- As a parent, the designer was focusing on how to introduce technology and digital things to children without missing the experience of real objects in their lives. He decided to use time as the topic on the digital door, to help children understand how fast the time passes by.
- Inspiration
- The designer showed his daughter a draft for a children's closet but she rejected it saying she wants a closet to play with as well as to keep her clothes tidy. While avoiding overuse of digitalization, Glay brings back the real touch and feel mechanics that naturally attract children's interests. By design the digital connects with the real life interaction.
- Image Credits
- Image #Main: Photographer Marco Guariglia, Taipei, 2020
Image #1: Photographer Marco Guariglia, Taipei, 2020
Image #2: Photographer Marco Guariglia, Taipei, 2020
Image #3: Photographer Marco Guariglia, Model: Jui-Ju Lin/ Yalex Guariglia, Taipei, 2020
Image #4: Photographer Marco Guariglia, Taipei, 2020 - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Marco Guariglia, 2018.