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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...
A Guide to Solo Fun with Clixo
Clixo can help cultivate a child's independence and creative self confidence. Our open ended toys are meant to encourage freeform exploration. But sometimes, it helps to have certain parameters in ...
A Guide to Collaborative Fun with Clixo
Today we'd like to share two fun suggestions for some collaborative and cooperative group play ideas with Clixo!
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...
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...
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...