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Clixo® Launches the Clixo Classroom Online Portal!
Toyish Labs design studio is proud to announce the launch of the Clixo Classroom Online Portal as the next stage of development into the education space of the award-winning toy line, Clixo. In thi...
Clixo Classroom Pack - A Dive Into Our Design Process
Last month we launched our first Clixo Classroom Pack for group activities in educational settings. We are proud to share the evolution of the project from conceptualization to realization in a dis...
Interactive Clixo Experience in NYC CAMP Store
Let it add a spark of creativity to any room and serve as a beautiful reminder to bring you back to playfulness. Watch it move throughout the day, by air currents, a person walking by, or perhaps a...
An open letter to lovers of instruction booklets
In it, Gail Cornwall, a writer who specializes in writing about education and parenting, traces the rising attack on children’s autonomy through increasingly controlling parenting models. She write...
Revisiting Packaging: Sometimes change is uncomfortable.
Back in August when Clixo had first launched, we posted a piece about our (somewhat unusual) thinking around packaging. Yes, we are doing sustainable packaging, but that’s hardly the big news. What...
Against the Current: Opening a COVID-safe, Creative Space
Eight months in and with winter months looming ahead, parents all over the place (and especially in cities like New York, with notoriously little space), are scrambling to find ways to keep their f...
By Yaara Meet Ilya - a Brooklyn local Clixo Master Builder Meet Ilya Ilya is an 11 year old Clixo Master Builder who goes to fifth grade in Brooklyn, NY.A few months ago Ilya started visiti...
Why the Basic Building Block was Due for an Update
Our world used to be a lot more square. There are good reasons for this. Squares are easy to build with, and structurally sound. With the rise of industrialization and the possibility of mass produ...
When the world changes shape, Clixo changes with it.
Raise your hand if you’ve built a slide down your stairs out of cardboard boxes, turned the entire apartment into a playroom, or decided the whole family should don formal attire for a Tuesday nigh...
How (some) limitations can be helpful
Seemingly overnight our worlds shrunk from, well, the world, to small, contained spaces, sometimes no bigger than single room apartments. The pain of this transition is particularly acute for paren...
Our packaging is meant to be recycled, not re-used. Clixo is built to be in a constant state of iteration. It's self-storing, integrating with the world around it.
While the idea behind Clixo has been developing in me over the course of my career, it officially began to take form in 2017, as I watched design students get incredibly creative using only paper. ...
Have you ever thought about the process of building a puzzle, or putting together a model? You get a bunch of pieces, and the goal is to figure out how to put them back together again. How quickly ...
Play as the Antidote to Perfectionism
Perfection is a tricky one. It’s something that has interested me throughout the years, maybe because I myself suffered from perfectionism. I’ve learned how to deal with it in my work and my practi...
One of my favorite things to do with a fresh set of design students is give them an assignment that’s impossible to google. For example, I’ll tell the group to come up with ten ways to move a cloud...