BLOCKED

These toys are a series of poplar blocks that have been split into angled forms. These forms can be twisted, separated, offset into sheered, stacked forms and reassembled into blocks again. Part puzzle, part sculpture, part fidget toy.

Constructed from solid poplar and neodymium magnets, these tactile forms have satisfying swiveling, clicking connections that encourage players not just to solve the puzzles, but to stack, fidget and twist the blocks into sculptural shapes. These generative toys may help their users overcome creative blocks.


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Purple Acai

“Whoever ... proves [her] point and demonstrates the prime truth geometrically should be believed by all the world, for there we are captured.” (Albrecht Durer)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 7
Cost: $60 

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Purple Plum

“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.” (Frank Herbert)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
Cost: $60
 

Red Apple

“Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees” (Robert Irwin)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
Cost: $60

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Red Tomato

“Beauty is always the result of an accident.” (Cocteau)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
Cost: $60

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Blue Huckleberry

“Since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view.” (Baudrillard)

Cuts: Overlapping, 45° angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 5
Cost: $60

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Blue Raspberry

“Art is the big door, but real life is a lot of small doors that you must pass through to create something new.” (Jean Giraud)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 7
Cost: $60

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Green Guava

“Strip away meaning and language and the heavenly kingdom begins to reveal itself.” (Chris Arkenberg)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 5
Cost: $60

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Green Kiwi

“I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.” (Salam Rushdie)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 5
Cost: $60

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Orange Papaya

“Near and far, outside and inside, like the surfaces of a nautilus, will be reversible terms for a sense of hidden treasure.” (Christopher Middleton)

Cuts: Overlapping, 45° angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 5
Cost: $60

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Orange Melon

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” (Dr. Seuss)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, 45° angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 4
Cost: $60

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Yellow Lemon

“Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.” (J.G. Ballard)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
Cost: $60

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Plain Pear

“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.” (Benoît Mandelbrot)

Cuts: Non-overlapping, irregular angle
Material: Poplar, Neodymium
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
Cost: $60

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Sweet Pear 1

“Nothing is yet in its true form” (C. S. Lewis)

Cuts: Parallel, horizontal
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
Cost: $40

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Sweet Pear 2

“I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it” (Slavoj Žižek)

Cuts: Parallel, horizontal
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
Cost: $40

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Sour Pear 1

“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know” (Michel de Montaigne)

Cuts: Parallel, 30° angle
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
Cost: $40

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Sour Pear 2

“The problem seems to be how to connect without connecting” (Alice Aycock)

Cuts: Parallel, 30° angle
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
Cost: $40

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Spicy Pear 1

“The randomness to which mutation testifies is implicit in the very idea of pattern, for only against the background of nonpattern can pattern emerge” (Katherine Hayles)

Cuts: Offset, 30° angle
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
Cost: $40

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Spicy Pear 2

“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform” (Ada Lovelace)

Cuts: Offset, 30° angle
Material: Poplar, dowel
Dimensions: 2” x 2” x 6”
Pieces: 6
Cost: $40

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