Discover how modern toy design combines organic sculpting with mechanical engineering principles, ensuring toys are safe, ...

Design, at its heart, should be about making things better. Whether aesthetically or experientially, the craft should operate as a seamless bridge between a product’s function and the person operating ...

Toys from Takara Tomy provided key design precedents for Japan's lunar mission. How do you design a Nerf blaster that’s appropriate for kids, but looks menacing enough to blow out a zombie’s brains?

Creators of the top 5 entries in the Ultimaker 3D Printer Toy Design Challenge will each win an Ultimaker 3D printer. Since 2004, I have worked on PCMag’s hardware team, covering at various times ...

In the basement of Rapson Hall, University of Minnesota assistant professor Barry Kudrowitz and his students come together three times a week to make toys. A lime green NERF gun he designed sits on a ...

NEW YORK--"Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000" is an ambitious museum exhibition that is at once sprawling, fun, and emotionally and intellectually demanding, much like the experience ...

Packaged in a brown glass bottle with a black pump top, it might be mistaken for Aesop hand soap, the ubiquitous status cleanser. Or, no: White lettering across the front says “Shine”—hair product ...