[NYC14]

2014 New York Design Awards

ferret

Digital Experience - Mobile

Imagine that a child could learn the entire Encyclopedia of Life--including how nature designs and solves problems around structure, pattern and color--without it ever feeling like school. FERRET is an interactive iPad app that teaches children the ins and outs of the animal kingdom through play. Children are challenged to “build” animals from the inside out, using intuitive building blocks of anatomical information. Each tap and swipe leads to new discoveries about how animals are made -- and reinforces how they are classified in the natural world. Children first comprehend by seeing, and we have spared no detail to make our app the most visually stunning science app on the market. FERRET features elegant design, vivid color coding, hi-resolution photography, and both video and icons that explain scientific classification in descriptive, plain English. FERRET unlocks the aptitude for discovery inherent in every child… and will help create the next generation of scientists, artists, and designers.

Winner 

 

Ani-gram-it

Graphic Design - Three Dimensional

Imagine that a child could learn the entire Encyclopedia of Life--including how nature designs and solves problems around structure, pattern and color--without it ever feeling like school. Ani-gram-it is a beautifully designed board game that teaches children the ins and outs of the animal kingdom through play. Children are challenged to “build” animals using intuitive building blocks of anatomical information. Each play leads to new discoveries about how animals are made -- and reinforces how they are classified in the natural world. Children first comprehend by seeing, and we have spared no detail to make our board game the most visually stunning one on the market, educational or otherwise. The game features a bold color scheme utilizing deep blacks and hi-resolution photography, 100 colorful chit board tiles, and matte laminated everything. Ani-gram-it even has a sister app, called FERRET, to provide a complementary digital experience. Ani-gram-it mimics and celebrates the great beauty of the natural world… and is as much an objet d'art as a revolutionary educational tool.

Finalist