Close Up blends a love of nature and art in an art-lab table that provides a collaborative learning experience by stimulating children’s curiosity when drawing. With pleasant organic qualities, this art-lab table has an inviting light feature that facilitates tracing, sketching and observation.Even more attractive, Close Up has built-in portable containers for gathering samples such as bugs and leaves. A magnification lens is embedded in each container’s lid giving youngsters the chance to get a closer look at their finds. By placing the containers back on the table, kids can explore, and display their findings while learning to draw from nature and encouraging social interaction.
Where the hell was this when I was a kid? Surely this beats the Playschool kitchen I had. In fact this comes pretty close to my Speak-and-Spell, and Teddy Ruxpin in terms of uber awesomeness. If kids everywhere had toys/tools like this to push their imagination and natural exploratory nature, we might be in for a better, brighter future.
Designer: Carolina Peña Villarreal
Photographs by Steve Tilley & Carolina Pena
Carolina Peña Villarreal,
Carolina Pena
译文:
趣味特写画桌--多么令人羡慕的儿童生活！【奇客】
趣味特写画桌综合了对自然和艺术式实验室艺术的热爱，通过在绘画时提供一种协同式学习体验激发儿童的好奇心。利用舒适有机的材质，这种艺术实验室课桌拥有一种动人的光效特性，辅助临摹、勾画草图和观察。更吸引人的是，这种特写画桌还内置了轻便的容器，可将昆虫、树叶等标本放在里面。每个容器的盖上都嵌入了放大镜，这样孩子们就有机会仔细观察他们新奇的发现。把这些容器放到桌子上，孩子们便能够探索，展示他们的发现，同时学习写生，也能鼓励人际互动。
我还是孩子的时候怎么没有这些好玩意儿呢？这可比我们那时候的幼儿班厨房强多了。事实上，这和我的Speak-and-Spell学习辅助工具很像，还有超级可怕的华斯比。如果世界各地的孩子们都拥有这样的玩具或工具来开发他们的想象力和与生俱来的探险天性，我们就会有个更好，更辉煌的未来。
设计者：Carolina Peña Villarreal
摄影：Steve Tilley 与 Carolina Pena
Carolina Peña Villarreal, Carolina Pena
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