Gold Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design · 2022
Bavvic Creative Building Blocks
- A' Design Award 2022 Gold Winner in Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- CLIENT: Bavvic
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 1,971,813
- Verification code B467AD3958 · Verify this award
About Bavvic Creative Building Blocks
Bavvic is a set of creative building blocks for children. The wooden blocks are made from local beech left over from furniture and window production. Sensory silicone connectors interlock the blocks and allow abstract forms to be built. Each block measures 80 by 80 by 7.9 millimetres, and each connector measures 40 by 40 by 8.4 millimetres. The open-ended design supports cognitive and motor skills, spatial imagination, problem solving, decision making and creative thinking. Bavvic is intended to encourage learning through hands-on play for all ages.
Bavvic Creative Building Blocks by Maciej Sokolnicki exemplifies the contemporary movement toward thoughtfully designed educational play systems that honor both child development principles and adult aesthetic sensibilities, positioning itself within traditions of progressive pedagogy that recognize tactile exploration and open-ended construction as fundamental to cognitive and motor skill development, the work demonstrates remarkable chromatic sophistication through its carefully calibrated palette of earth tones, muted pastels, and cool neutrals that suggest influence from Scandinavian design philosophy with its emphasis on natural materials, restrained color, and functional beauty, technically the design achieves distinction through its varied surface treatments where each textural pattern serves dual purposes of visual interest and sensory differentiation allowing young users to develop tactile discrimination skills while engaging in creative construction, the combination of food-grade silicone and sustainably harvested wood reflects contemporary consciousness regarding material safety and environmental responsibility while simultaneously creating pleasing material contrasts between the yielding warmth of organic polymer and the solid presence of natural timber, compositionally the modular system demonstrates thoughtful consideration of scale progression and geometric vocabulary with circular and rectilinear elements designed for intuitive combination, the inclusion of larger sculptural forms alongside smaller geometric primitives suggests awareness of how children naturally gravitate toward both representational and abstract play modes, thematically the work celebrates the intersection of learning and pleasure, proposing that developmental benefit need not sacrifice aesthetic refinement nor playful delight, one might contemplate how such objects shape early experiences of color, form, and material, establishing foundations for visual literacy and creative confidence that extend far beyond childhood.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Multifunctional, sensory open-ended building blocks that help to engage children in a culture of learning through creative hands-on approach. Meet BAVVIC - Creative Building Blocks, the new product that carries attributes of a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mat) toy and aids in developing interest in education, through geometrical shapes and abstract forms.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The basic dimension of variety of geometrical wooden blocks is 80mm x 80mm x 7.9mm.
Sensory silicon connectors basic dimension is 40mm x 40 mm x 8.4mm - Tags
- creative wooden blocks, building blocks, bavvic, kids toys, steam toys, circular economy, recycled wood, designed by architect
- Production Technology
- Creative wooden blocks are made from leftovers of furniture and windows producation. The basic material is a local beech tree. The second component are sensory silicon connectors. It is a BFA toxic free silicon.
- Design Challenge
- The hardest part of this designing BAVVIC was to find a right wooden elements. BAVVIC blocks are design to create abstract forms by interlock wooden blocks with sensory silicon connectors.
- Project Duration
- Project started in the end of 2020 by a phone call discussion in Zurich, Switzerland.
- Operation Flow
- FUNCTIONALITY
Inclusive: Accessible for all, regardless age, gender, individual differences or additional needs (e.g. sensory disturbance).
Supporting: The toy actively encourages development across various skills, like; cognitive, motoric, spatial imagination, problem solving and decision-making, creative thinking and more!
Engaging : Playing BAVVIC for prolonged periods of time enables focusing on concentration and collaboration.
Intuitive: Children and adults of all ages, will be able to use the toy to its full capacity. - Inspiration
- The project started during the spontanous discussion of two female friends - Maria and Hania about their kids. It turned into idea of doing something together. The basic principal was to do something with the wooden leftovers from the furniture and windows production. Hania's husband is an award winning architect. He accepted the challange. This is how the adventure of creating unique minimalistic toy/building blocks started.
- Image Credits
- BAVVIC
- Patents
- Patented.
Copyrights belong to Maciej Sokolnicki.