HISTORY
MORMI is a fusion of ideas from two designers, combining each other's experience in parenting and work in various creative areas, in order to create original objects and educational games which are centered on functional and aesthetic solutions.
SPECIFIC
MORMI objects are designed particularly for children to experience learning through play and interaction, encouraging creativity and imagination.
ROMANIAN DESIGN WEEK APPEARANCES
2019 // THE ACROBATS
The Acrobats is a balance game with distinct acrobat silhouettes, each with its own personality and accessories, that together give not only diversity and complexity during playing, but also convey meaning in the amusing space configurations of the little ones.The essential differences compared to other balance games are to be found in the variety of figurines and accessories that significantly multiply the number of configurations.
The game stimulates creativity and fires imagination, develops spatial thinking, analysis and sorting, thinking in advance. It's a great way to spend your free time, it teaches you to look divergently at the problem, it trains you to be patient and it improves your dexterity.
It is a challenging game for any age. It is good at the office for relaxation moments or when a decision has to be made.
2017 // Play&Rewind 2.0 @ Vienna Design Week // EUROPE PUZZLE MAP
2017 // EUROPE PUZZLE MAP
Puzzle game based on an original idea by MORMI, designed for kids to learn the European countries by playing and Romania’s location within the continent area. This puzzle starts with Romania, attached to one board, followed by the rest of the European countries by matching their borders one on one.
2016 // Wolf Wheelbarrow
Wolf Wheelbarrow, an original design by MORMI, contributes to movement coordination and to increase mind concentration while the child is playing, offering various possibilities of playing in a creative and physical stimulative manner. Made from thick plywood, it is a solid and durable object, easy to handle and it can be used either inside or outside. Because it addresses to kids with ages between 2 to 4yr old, all edges and corners were sanded with care, providing a smooth continuous surface, covered in non-toxic finish. Wolf Wheelbarrow is perfect for kids to carry small objects and toys all around the house and by doing so they coordinate the eye with feet and mind which further develops their concentration and motor skills. Kids can be easily convinced to gather the toys laying around and to take them one by one to their designated place because a clean uncluttered space helps to unclutter the mind.
2016 // Locked Box
10 doors x 9 unique locks are fun and challenging to play with for long periods of time. Kids will be fascinated and they will focus to find how to handle it by themselves. Locked Box stimulates children to understand the cause-effect relation, develops the fine-motor skills and is a great way for kids to teach themselves about the objects found in the grown-ups world. Hand made entirely from wood, without plastic, lights or harsh sounds, the Locked Box does not need batteries. It’s lightweight, easy to transport by the handle even by kids smaller than 3 yrs. The handle can be tilted off for storage. Each lock is a real life-size item. Left alone by their own in front of the Locked Box - or watched whenever needed, the kids will spend a lot of time trying to figure out by themselves how each lock works.
2016 // The Locked Cube
5 doors x 4 unique locks are fun and challenging to play with for long periods of time. Kids will be fascinated and they will focus to find how to handle it by themselves. Locked Cube prompts to understand the cause-effect relation, develops the fine-motor skills and is a great way for kids to teach themselves about the objects found in the grown-ups world. Hand made entirely from wood, without plastic, lights or harsh sounds, the Locked Cube does not need batteries. Built lightweight and without a handle to get the little kids coordinating themselves when carry an object with both hands. Each lock is a real life-size item. Left alone by their own in front of the Locked Cube - or watched whenever needed, the kids will spend a lot of time trying to figure out by themselves how each lock works.
2016 // Light Box
A great investment for a lifetime, the Light Box is an interactive object suitable for any age. It can be used in multiple ways re-awakening our inner creativity and the pleasure of improvising with light, sand, shapes and colors. The light surface enhances the contours through contrast and shapes through color, transparence and overlay. It is very useful to understand what a shape means and absolutely necessary to observe the result of shapes’ combination and interaction. The small Light Box is for individual explorations and the big Light Box is suitable for activities that require interactions and collaborations within small groups in a fun, different and unique way unlike daily activities. Light Box accessories: colored sand helps to make endless shapes morphing one into another; colored geometric shapes foster graphic improvisations and compositions; letter tracing and object tracing paper which helps leaning by doing.
2016 // Brand Logo: MORMI
MORMI – logo designed for a startup company that creates and manufactures innovative products for kids. The logo layout was created to express the idea of interaction, play and joy through the two anthropomorphic M’s and also through the full flat blue O that can also be interpreted as a ball to play for the two M’s. The blue color was chosen to induce optimism, vivacity and sensibility, all being specific kids attributes, and in the same time suggesting that the products are intelligent too. Fun fact: the two M’s represents the inner child within each of the two designers.
2016 // Brand Logo: FreePlay
FreePlay – the logo started from the idea to express in a most clear way the concept of playing with special designed equipment that allows the little kids and babies to sense the space around them and to discover and develop the independence of their movement by themselves using simple wooden structures for climbing and exploration. The letters were especially designed to underline the idea of module and versatility of the playing equipment and more, through their arrangement in the word to show the interactivity and the free play of the kids with the respective modules. Four colors were chosen, three of them being the primary colors, to which a warmth tone was applied resulting a playful, happy typeface in conjunction with the various orientation of each letter.
MORMI is a fusion of ideas from two designers, combining each other's experience in parenting and work in various creative areas, in order to create original objects and educational games which are centered on functional and aesthetic solutions.
SPECIFIC
MORMI objects are designed particularly for children to experience learning through play and interaction, encouraging creativity and imagination.
ROMANIAN DESIGN WEEK APPEARANCES
2019 // THE ACROBATS
The Acrobats is a balance game with distinct acrobat silhouettes, each with its own personality and accessories, that together give not only diversity and complexity during playing, but also convey meaning in the amusing space configurations of the little ones.The essential differences compared to other balance games are to be found in the variety of figurines and accessories that significantly multiply the number of configurations.
The game stimulates creativity and fires imagination, develops spatial thinking, analysis and sorting, thinking in advance. It's a great way to spend your free time, it teaches you to look divergently at the problem, it trains you to be patient and it improves your dexterity.
It is a challenging game for any age. It is good at the office for relaxation moments or when a decision has to be made.
2017 // Play&Rewind 2.0 @ Vienna Design Week // EUROPE PUZZLE MAP
2017 // EUROPE PUZZLE MAP
Puzzle game based on an original idea by MORMI, designed for kids to learn the European countries by playing and Romania’s location within the continent area. This puzzle starts with Romania, attached to one board, followed by the rest of the European countries by matching their borders one on one.
2016 // Wolf Wheelbarrow
Wolf Wheelbarrow, an original design by MORMI, contributes to movement coordination and to increase mind concentration while the child is playing, offering various possibilities of playing in a creative and physical stimulative manner. Made from thick plywood, it is a solid and durable object, easy to handle and it can be used either inside or outside. Because it addresses to kids with ages between 2 to 4yr old, all edges and corners were sanded with care, providing a smooth continuous surface, covered in non-toxic finish. Wolf Wheelbarrow is perfect for kids to carry small objects and toys all around the house and by doing so they coordinate the eye with feet and mind which further develops their concentration and motor skills. Kids can be easily convinced to gather the toys laying around and to take them one by one to their designated place because a clean uncluttered space helps to unclutter the mind.
2016 // Locked Box
10 doors x 9 unique locks are fun and challenging to play with for long periods of time. Kids will be fascinated and they will focus to find how to handle it by themselves. Locked Box stimulates children to understand the cause-effect relation, develops the fine-motor skills and is a great way for kids to teach themselves about the objects found in the grown-ups world. Hand made entirely from wood, without plastic, lights or harsh sounds, the Locked Box does not need batteries. It’s lightweight, easy to transport by the handle even by kids smaller than 3 yrs. The handle can be tilted off for storage. Each lock is a real life-size item. Left alone by their own in front of the Locked Box - or watched whenever needed, the kids will spend a lot of time trying to figure out by themselves how each lock works.
2016 // The Locked Cube
5 doors x 4 unique locks are fun and challenging to play with for long periods of time. Kids will be fascinated and they will focus to find how to handle it by themselves. Locked Cube prompts to understand the cause-effect relation, develops the fine-motor skills and is a great way for kids to teach themselves about the objects found in the grown-ups world. Hand made entirely from wood, without plastic, lights or harsh sounds, the Locked Cube does not need batteries. Built lightweight and without a handle to get the little kids coordinating themselves when carry an object with both hands. Each lock is a real life-size item. Left alone by their own in front of the Locked Cube - or watched whenever needed, the kids will spend a lot of time trying to figure out by themselves how each lock works.
2016 // Light Box
A great investment for a lifetime, the Light Box is an interactive object suitable for any age. It can be used in multiple ways re-awakening our inner creativity and the pleasure of improvising with light, sand, shapes and colors. The light surface enhances the contours through contrast and shapes through color, transparence and overlay. It is very useful to understand what a shape means and absolutely necessary to observe the result of shapes’ combination and interaction. The small Light Box is for individual explorations and the big Light Box is suitable for activities that require interactions and collaborations within small groups in a fun, different and unique way unlike daily activities. Light Box accessories: colored sand helps to make endless shapes morphing one into another; colored geometric shapes foster graphic improvisations and compositions; letter tracing and object tracing paper which helps leaning by doing.
2016 // Brand Logo: MORMI
MORMI – logo designed for a startup company that creates and manufactures innovative products for kids. The logo layout was created to express the idea of interaction, play and joy through the two anthropomorphic M’s and also through the full flat blue O that can also be interpreted as a ball to play for the two M’s. The blue color was chosen to induce optimism, vivacity and sensibility, all being specific kids attributes, and in the same time suggesting that the products are intelligent too. Fun fact: the two M’s represents the inner child within each of the two designers.
2016 // Brand Logo: FreePlay
FreePlay – the logo started from the idea to express in a most clear way the concept of playing with special designed equipment that allows the little kids and babies to sense the space around them and to discover and develop the independence of their movement by themselves using simple wooden structures for climbing and exploration. The letters were especially designed to underline the idea of module and versatility of the playing equipment and more, through their arrangement in the word to show the interactivity and the free play of the kids with the respective modules. Four colors were chosen, three of them being the primary colors, to which a warmth tone was applied resulting a playful, happy typeface in conjunction with the various orientation of each letter.