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MEGAPHONE
Aurelien Barbry in collaboration with
Constant HK
Friends of Design Trust
An iconic, simple and domestic tool, the megaphone
allows anyone to magnify their voice when calling
someone at a distance, joining in group songs or getting
kids home for dinner from the height of a balcony. It is
as much a practical tool as it is an interactive object that
allows for intergenerational play.
HOXY
Christopher Choi with Keith Hui, in
collaboration with Esther Fung and
Ian Tam, ioii Studio
Christopher Choi, DTFS 2018 Mentee
In today’s technologically advanced society, tablets are
replacing quality family time at gatherings and meals.
In Hong Kong, even the excitement of using origami to
transform chopstick wrappers into chopstick holders
during dim sum is being replaced with a fight for screen
time.
Constant HK presents a cardboard megaphone,
featuring a custom, dynamic "hybrid” pattern inspired
by wood structure and sound waves an abstract
expression with a nudge to the playful purpose of the
megaphone itself.
A counterpart to the cardboard megaphone is one made
in birch wood as an iconic "home" object that fits the
rest of an interior’s warm expression.
Constant HK
Made out of off-cut wood from timber shops, ‘HOXY’
is a meal time-friendly 4-module building block set
to bring back pre-meal family time: table space can
be customised by interlocking different modular
combinations to enable children and parents to
build their own chopstick holders, trees, animals
or imaginary towers, bringing back tangible play
experiences to family mealtimes.
HOXY
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