Thinking like a kid never hurt anyone creative, especially in design. Here's nine designs that type childhood toys and past-times for inspiration.
Above: A New Era hat by French fashion designer JC de Castelbajac, made of Legos.
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Erik Stehman creates furniture inspired by kid's toys. This lamp, with a skin of soft fabric, is meant look like one of those stuffed animals filled with Styrofoam pellets.
Swedish group Form Us With Love created an entire furniture system, the Man-sized Mekano, which was inspired by Erector Sets...
...the pieces can be assembled into everything from shelves to chandeliers to arm chairs.
Legos of course are a recurring theme, even among style-conscious designers. John Harrington created this chandelier, which would look right at home in a traditional Victorian manse.
The theme is carried out through the interior, in its colors, an oversized Lego man, and a lamp by Ettore Sottsass.
Staples aren't exactly a kid's toy--but kids will play with anything, right? And if they had more coordination and patience, they might create something like this sprawling cityscape by Peter Root.
On that same theme of "What would a kid do?" is the Clutch chair by Scott Jarvie, which is made from 10,000 individual drinking straws, glued together.
Robert Bradford melts and glues toys and plastic knick-knacks together, to form other things. Here, a bloodhood, in a piece called Dark Sniff.
Using what looks like a kid's toy blocks and a very exacting glue gun, Fresh West created this lamp for Moooi. Kind of looks like a nerdy kid's science-fair project, right?
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