Author: FORTUNE NDOMBO

This toy was a made to teach kids the American alphabet. It is incredibly memorable to me because I practiced writing my name 100+ times in the dry-erase pad in the center of the toy. I had only just moving to America and my mom would spend hours getting us prepared for the school system. I would struggle at first to write my name because I couldn’t stop writing my r’s backwards. If I saw this toy today the waves of nostalgia would probably make my cry because it was such a staple, now symbol, of my early immigrant life.

I choose a spoon for my idea. At first I went with the most simplest route which was to create a hole at in the center of the spoon so that it would no longer function as a spoon. I also made the handle part into a dull knife, insuring that the knife was also useless.

When it came time to made my idea worst, I wanted to get out of the realm of “spoon shape” and design a product that looked like other things but was actually a spoon. I believe that these designs would made for very useless spoons. In the end, I thought my best idea was a spoon that was simply a loose-leaf paper.