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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Sage Square

“That the green has no “weight”, yet weight (gravity) is what shapes the piece.” (Richard Tuttle)

Shape: Square
Placement: Center
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32
Cost: $20

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Oregano Square

“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” (Anais Nin)

Shape: Square
Placement: Center
Division: 45° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 36
Cost: $20

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Peony Square

“We suffer more in our imagination more often than in reality.” (Seneca)

Shape: Square
Placement: Center
Division: Rotated Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 36
Cost: $20

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Borage Square

“The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind” (Wallace Stevens)

Shape: Square
Placement: Offset
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 27
Cost: $20

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Dianthus Square

“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.” (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Shape: Square
Placement: Center
Division: Rotated Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 36
Cost: $20

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Lavender Square

“That there should be a reality hidden behind appearances is, after all, quite possible; that language might render such a thing would be an absurd hope.” (Emil Cioran)

Shape: Square
Placement: Corner
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 27
Cost: $20

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Geranium Square

“It lies in the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity.” (Alfred North Whitehead)

Shape: Square
Placement: Corner
Division: 45° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32
Cost: $20

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Mustard Square

“When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don’t really know what they mean.” (William Faulkner)

Shape: Square
Placement: 45° Center
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32
Cost: $20

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Basil Square

“I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it.” (Alexander Stepanov)

Shape: Square
Placement: 45° Center
Division: 45° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32
Cost: $20

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Indigo Square

“Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to
it, we find it fascinating.” (John Cage)

Shape: Square
Placement: 45° Offset
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 31
Cost: $20

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Allium Square

“The “paradox” is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality “ought to be””
(Richard Feynman)

Shape: Square
Placement: Rotated Offset
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 30
Cost: $20

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Chicory Square

“Unknown, Incomprehensible, whatever you choose to call it, call; But leave it vague as airy space, dark in its darkness mystical.” (Richard Francis Burton)

Shape: Square
Placement: Rotated Offset
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 30
Cost: $20

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Mint Square

“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)

Shape: Square
Placement: Rotated Offset
Division: 90° Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 30
Cost: $20

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Bergamot Square

“In so far as the learner was in Error, and now receives the Truth and with it the condition for understanding it, a change takes place within him like the change from non-being to being.” (Søren Kierkegaard)

Shape: Square
Placement: Rotated Offset
Division: Rotated Grid
Dimensions: 6” x 6”
Pieces: 32
Cost: $20

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