Blocks
Young children want to build but their fine motor skills needs to develop. Solid blocks for solid constructions. The smaller the infant the larger the blocks.
Building, stacking and rollovers. The child is experiencing weight, balance, shape and colour difference. The blocks are splinter-free, non-toxic finished and baby-proof manufactured.
Rokus and Corry with the CIV wooden toy block wagon.
Photo: Ron van Blokland
Size: 42 × 23 × 8 cm
During the course 'Cursus Industrial Design', Van Blokland designed this wagon with blocks which can be fully dismantled. Gerrit Rietveld formulated the assignment to design toys as: 'Toys where the package becomes part of the playing'.
The wagon has been constructed without nails. The wheels of the wagon can be taken from one side of the axis which allows the coloured long blocks to be part of the game.
For a series of four blocks sets in 4 different sizes Rokus and Corry design a label for the largest set. The smaller labels could -when needed- be cut in the right size.
Size: 22,5 × 44 × 9 cm
Photos by Jan Versnel for magazine 'Goed Wonen'.
Sio brand nail on one of the blocks.
The yellow and green blocks are not original.
Card in two colors with models.
Son Peter was model for the drawing.
Son Peter was model for the drawing.
Photo from Design Quaterly 59, Industrial Design in the Netherlands
Photo from Design Quaterly 59, Industrial Design in the Netherlands
1964 Blocks Chest
Blocks chest with Sioliet coloured blocks and baseplates.
Photo: Ron van Blokland
Size: 33,5 × 43,5 × 8 cm
Serie of building sets with sioliet coloured blocks and slabs.
Photo: Piet Mobach
Addition of flat building elements makes it possible to build larger architectonic buildings.
Photo: Piet Mobach
Design shapes game Marks and Spencer
Design shapes game Marks and Spencer
Building set for Marks and Spencer in the UK. Combination of coloured blocks with Sio mobilo elements.
Design buildingset and Block wagon for Marks and Spencer.
New production of designs from 1964.
