Readings

Reserved Books:

• Product Design and Development – Karl T. Ulrich;Steven D Eppinger (TS171 .U47 2016)
• Understanding Comics – Scott McCloud (PN6710 .M335 1994)
• Emotional Design why we love (or hate) everyday things – Donald Norman (PN6710 .M335 1994)
• Toys as Culture – Brian Sutton-Smith (HQ784.T68 S88 1986)
• The First Book of Toys – Helen Hoke and Walter Pels (TS2301.T7 H58)

Online Books and Articles:

• Play Makes Us Human I: A Ludic Theory of Human Nature
• Homo ludens: a study of the play-element in culture Chapter 1: Nature and Significance of Play as Cultural Phenomenon
• The Play Pyramid: A Play Classification and Brainstorming Tool for Toy Design
• The First Book of Toys 
• Karakuri by Keisuke Saka. Chapter 2: How Karakuri Works
• Marcel Duchamp: “Twisting Memory for the Fun of It” or a Form of Retroactive Interference?—Recalling the Impacts of Leaving Home on the Readymade
• READYMADE, Tate Art Terms
• The Future of Design: When you come to a fork in the road, take it.  Donald Norman
• How to Make Almost Anything, Neil Gershenfeld
• Metamaterial Mechanisms
• Making Things Move

Other Resources

• Objectified
• Arvind Gupta: Toys from trash for learning
• Toys from Trash

Drawing and Illustration

• Ed Emberley
• Allemaal Artis

E-Textiles

• http://etextile-summercamp.org/

Paper Toys and Mechanisms

• Free Automata
• Paper Toys Flickr Resource
• Kazuyuki Motoyama – Paper Mechanisms
• Rob Ives – Mechanism animations
• Paper Mechanism – Penguin
• Papier Machine
• Mechanical Toys
• Cabaret Mechanical Theater
• Kazuyuki Motoyama – Paper Mechanisms
• Paper Mechanism – Penguin

3D Modeling Cinema 4D:

• eyedesyn
• greyscalegorilla

3D Model to Paper:

• MeshLab
• Slicer for Fusion 360
• Fusion 360
• Panda 3D Model

Illustrator

DIY rubber stamp on the Laser Cutter
how-to-do-live-mirror-drawing-in-adobe-illustrator
create-colourful-vector-character-art
illustrator-tutorials

Character Design:
alfred-the-gorilla

friends with you
wang2mu
Yoshitomo Nara
Flabjacks
grand_chamaco
Pictoplasma: pictofolio

Materials

Craft Supplies

Craft Supplies: Knitting and Sewing, ONE DAY SHIPPING

• Yarn 2mm
• Yarn 3mm
• Yarn Needles Plastic
• Yarn Needles Metal
• Pompom Maker Set
• Ergonomic Crochet
• Toy Eyes
• Toy Eyes: Buttons
• Purse Magnets

TEXTILES

Furry Cloth:

• furry cloth
• furry cloth

lamb fabric: jacket inside fabric
felt fabric
plush fabric
decorative fabric (Peruvian Syle)
Dish Sponge Rectangular Shape for Stuffing
 

Art Supplies

Micron Sketch Pens
Color Sketch Pens
Staedtler Erasers
Staedtler Pencil Sharpener
Faber-Castell 9000 Pencils
Shape Drawing Rulers

• Shape Drawing Rulers
• Shape Drawing Rulers