Vegetable
The toy tools provide cutting, pressing, and squeezing to help children make different dough shapes. However, many toy dough tools on the market are based on geometric shapes. Therefore, the team combined both children's ergonomic considerations and different vegetables' shapes to design this tool set. The design challenge was to identify the right ergonomic that can fit children hand size so the team produced many sketch models in order to test the comfort.
Vegetable Dough Toolset by Yi Teng Shih has been highlighted as an outstanding example of industrial design by the A' Design Award & Competition. Vegetable Dough Toolset won the Bronze A' Design Award in Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design in 2021. The A' Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design Award is a juried, academic and highly prestigious design competition that celebrates excellent design of dolls, action figures, board games, puzzles, plush toys, educational toys, building blocks, model kits and more.
