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Crystalline geometries in brilliant color. This deceptively simple Kaleidograph set can be arranged into billions of designs.
About the Kaleidograph
The Kaleidograph, an educational toy for children and design tool for adults, has been conceived in the tradition of the original Froebel Kindergarten. It is simple yet expansive, ever changing in its diversity, brilliant and beautiful, and mirrors nature’s own strategies of creation.
The original Kindergarten system that influenced Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller, Piet Mondrian, and Bauhaus masters Josef Albers and Paul Klee, was invented by Friedrich Froebel in 1836 as a means to teach children how nature designs.
With simple blocks and paper toys based on the symmetries of crystals and flowers, Kindergarten was intended to teach at the most fundamental level – pattern, rhythm, association, interconnectedness, unity. Explore symmetry and color combinations. See how small adjustments produce dramatic changes. The deceptively simple Kaleidograph can be arranged into billions of designs by combining and rotating two or more die-cut cards.
Each set includes 12 cards and a full-colour, two-sided poster with over 150 example designs to challenge and inspire.
Dimensions of the cards: 120 x 120 mm
Design: Norman Broosterman, Scott Bultman, David McCord
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