Gumbek
Gumbek Didactic Toy by Lea Vavra is a winner of the 2024 Bronze A' Design Award in Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design.
Gumbek is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness.
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Gumbek is a didactic plush toy that stimulates creativity and encourages the development of fine motor skills through play. This modular toy comes in parts and kids have to assemble their own toy by connecting the parts together in order to create a whole. There are seven different segments; three larger ones and four smaller ones. The pieces are attached to one another by threading the buttons through the buttonholes, which helps to improve fine motor skills, Also, the arrangement of different shapes helps to develop imagination and creativity as the toy can be put together in different ways.
Featured Design
Gumbek by Lea Vavra
Core Functionality
Didactic Toy
Accolades
Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design Award Winner in 2024.
Bronze Winner
Gumbek Didactic Toy
Gumbek is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a much prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Gumbek is expected to be a highly-regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Gumbek splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Winner Designer
Lea Vavra
Kištra is a small design company from Zagreb. It was founded by industrial designer Lea Vavra. The core Kištra's business is the design and production of interactive, handmade soft toys for children. Kištra originates from the first plush toy manufacturing company in Zagreb (Croatia) – „Igračke Vavra“, which was founded by Lea's grandmother. From her, she inherited a love for toys and quality handmade products. What makes Kištra's toys special is the purposeful design that helps to refine fine motor skills and develop each child's creative skills.
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Kistra
Kistra is a design company from Zagreb. The core of our business is the design and production of interactive, handmade toys for children. We originate from the first toy manufacturing company in Zagreb – "Igračke Vavra", from which we inherited a love for toys and quality handmade products. What makes our toys special is the purposeful design that helps to refine fine motor skills and develop each child's creative skills.
Winner Brand
Kištra by Vavra
Kištra is a small design company from Zagreb. It was founded by industrial designer Lea Vavra. The core Kištra's business is the design and production of interactive, handmade soft toys for children.
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