Silver Toy · 2020

Plutus Spacemen Toys

by Daybreak Li

Silver A' Design Award 2020 in Toy
CLIENT: 52toys
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About Plutus Spacemen Toys

Plutus Spacemen is a series of collectible toy figures created for teenagers and office workers. The design combines the fortune cat with the astronaut, pairing a spacesuit with a cute and playful appearance. Each figure measures 50 by 50 by 50 millimetres and is made of PVC and ABS. Selected styles are electroplated to vary the surface finish. The series follows a retro theme and uses bold colour combinations based on elements of the twentieth century. The different colours create a sense of anticipation when a package is opened.

About the Silver A' Design Award

Plutus Spacemen Toys is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Plutus Spacemen Toys is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Plutus Spacemen Toys is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

Press Kit

Unique Properties: This toy project is designed for teenagers and white-collar people. On the basis of cute and interesting modeling, different roles are changed to make products more abundant and diversified. People will have a good mood when they see such lovely modeling.
Dimensions & Packaging: The dimension of single product is width 50mm x depth 50mm x height 50mm.
Tags: toys, Illustration, Graphics Design, Astronaut
Production Technology: This product design material is combined with PVC and ABS. The individual styles have been electroplated.
Design Challenge: In the process of creation, the main challenge is how to transform the plane design into a solid object. Show different product details with different processes.
Research: Astronauts combine the elements of the Fortune Cat, the collocation of the cool spacesuit with the cool design of the spacesuit, giving people more joy and love.
Inspiration: The inspiration comes from the Fortune Cat. Spacemen are also a subject I like very much, so I started to combine Spacemen and fortune cats to design a lovely look. Plutus means God of wealth. So this product line is named ‘Plutus Spacemen’, the concept is to have wealth from the universe.
Project Duration: The project was developed between the years of 2018 and 2019, in BeiJing and GuangZhou, China. It started in July 2018 and finished in October 2019.
Operation Flow: Astronauts combine the elements of the Fortune Cat, the collocation of the cool spacesuit with the cool design of the spacesuit, giving people more joy and love. The different colors make you feel full of anticipation in the process of opening the package. This series takes retro as the design theme, selects the representative elements of twentieth Century to merge, and makes more bold avant-garde attempts in color matching. Different crafts make the whole product more pleasant, and eventually these memories will be shown to customers through time and space.