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Fire Truck Busy Board
Helps toddlers develop motor skills.
This is a Fire Truck Busy Board, one of my best-selling toy designs. It was drafted using Adobe InDesign and Photoshop.
Somehow, over the years, I have become a toy designer providing services to a company in Hong Kong/Guangdong, which manufactures its own 2D products and has connections to various toy factories. This is something I never expected to happen to me. My mother is a preschool teacher, so I’ve been making good use of my experiences growing up around a lot of children and toys.
While producing various toys, I’ve started truly seeing the value of young children being exposed to basic shapes and colors. With the global political climate that we have now, I’m witnessing more and more adults having a hard time distinguishing simple from complex issues. This problem extends to who they will vote for, causes they will support, phenomena (like climate change) that they will believe in, and whether or not they will allow their children to get vaccinated. Complex issues have become so difficult to explain to a person who is determined to understand only in the simplest terms possible. The sad part is, any social issue involving humans is very rarely just a simple matter. So to me, a lot of people seem to roam around being ‘disconnected’ with proven, complicated realities in the world, and of course this is sad and disadvantageous.
In any case, I believe this ‘disconnect’ is somehow linked to an underdeveloped childhood, a person’s not having acquired the skill to discern between the simple and complex, in his young years. Indeed, one can understand colors like moss green, plum, and Tiffany blue, only after he’s grasped the basic colors blue, red, and green. Simple first, complex next.
As far as service to mankind goes, I’m probably not going to build houses for the homeless, clean the ocean, or plant trees. Instead, I will be providing a rare contribution- help young children’s brains become better in their formative years.
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