Archive for April, 2010
Educational wood stacking toys help children recognize different shades and sizes.
John W. Lewman Toy Designer www.toymakerpress.com Publishers of fun to make wood toy projects and plans. Parents can help children recognize the different shades and sizes and motivate them to pair according to size, which will help develop vision, intelligence and eye-hand coordination. Read More.
Roy Toy is a three-generation family of Maine wood toymakers.
John W. Lewman Toy Designer www.toymakerpress.com Publishers of fun to make wood toy projects and plans. Roy Toy was established in the mid 1930′s by one of the earliest pioneers in the wooden toy industry, Roy K. Dennison. Roy realized that there was an intriguing love for wooden construction sets, and that this excitement [...]
Hiroshi Yoshii’s Toy Design Gallery. Fascinating. Fantastic. Fun. Over 300 impossibly fabulous individual toy designs.
John W. Lewman Toy Designer www.toymakerpress.com Publishers of fun to make wood toy projects and plans. Yoshii’s toy gallery is a must-see for anyone interested in toy design. This prolific designer produces a new design daily. Take a look at today’s gallery of toys. See 332 designs. You must visit the Yoshii Blog.
Carlos Zapata Automata reflects experiences from the artist’s personal history. His works are an inspiration to toymakers.
John W. Lewman Toy Designer www.toymakerpress.com Publishers of fun to make wood toy projects and plans. TIMESONLINE says: Carlos was born in Colombia in 1963. The Visual Arts have always captured his imagination and over many years he has been especially drawn to Folk and Tribal Arts from all over the world. Carlos is [...]
Designer Hendrih creates trendy and timeless wood toys at his studio in Zagreb, Croatia.
John W. Lewman Toy Designer www.toymakerpress.com Publishers of fun to make wood toy projects and plans. We stumbled onto these images on the Luxology website and have yet to find detailed information on Hendrih’s work. This guy is loaded with talent. He invests flawless precision in each his creations. Hendrih, if you read this let us know [...]
Playme Toys mission: Happy playing. Happy learning.
John W. Lewman Toy Designer www.toymakerpress.com Publishers of fun to make wood toy projects and plans. Playme Toys says: Happy playing! Happy learning! We hope children can learn and liberate their creativity from playing. To create the value of playing we integrate fun and education into our product design. It is the most precious [...]
One of the most popular types of collectibles is the elephant toy.
John W. Lewman Toy Designer www.toymakerpress.com Publishers of fun to make wood toy projects and plans. Michael Don Knapik (1956-2009) says: Toy elephants? No, I do not mean a very small species of live elephant, but elephants made by toy makers to be played with. You see, I wrote the first book on elephant collectibles [...]
Home-built wood lathe is a great solution for lathe-turned toys.
John W. Lewman Toy Designer www.toymakerpress.com Publishers of fun to make wood toy projects and plans. In 1997, I looked at many different designs for homebuilt lathes while trying to decide if I wanted to buy or build a wood lathe. I decided to build one and it turned out to be stable, quiet [...]
To boldly go where no lathe-turned wood Kokeshi doll has gone before.
John W. Lewman Toy Designer www.toymakerpress.com Publishers of fun to make wood toy projects and plans. The Kokeshi Clan is a series of Original Kokeshi dolls created by Muluc of temple 7e. Every Kokeshi Clan doll is an Original work of art that is entirely painted by hand and signed by the artist. “These [...]
At Il Leccio, the child has always been our point of reference when designing new products.
We are in this field since 1975. The child has always been our point of reference when designing new products. It ‘s about the child that we have focused our attention especially when it comes to toys for infants. The range currently comprises about seventy products, all designed within our group. Our products can be [...]
