patric - toy & game designer
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Architect-Industrial Designer |
| Location | portland~maine |
| Introduction | Design is always on our minds and expressing it through meaningful, thought provoking products is for us an exciting challenge and a source of inspiration. In 2008, Ad's design team developed a new line of toys and games for Robbins Toy that premiered at the 2009 Toy Fair in New York City. Their ultimate goal was to design a unique line of sustainable, bio-derived, pine wood toys and games that children would find fun and want to play over and over again. Our team of clever, fabulously talented folks includes: C.M. Bard - Co-founder of ARCADIA designworks, a True Color Expert & Pragmatic Product Designer, Michael Gallagher - ARCADIA designworks, a Hardworking, Multi-Dimensional Designer, Steve Cooley - Owner & Modern Graphic Designer of Cooley Design Lab, Mary Ann Lloyd - Illustrator of that which makes us Smile, Renee Cooley - Copy Editor and Clarifier of Well-Intended Words, Jeannie Madden - ARCADIA's in-house Intellectual Property Researcher & Patient Editor of our Scribblings. |
| Interests | One of the very first games that we designed for the Spinner was Up Down. During a visit with friends on Martha's Vineyard, I sat out on their deck under a warm Spring sun sketching game ideas. Hearing our children playing in the distance I was inspired to connect the flipping of a coin with the motions of up and down. Heads was up and tails was down. They had a hoot playing up down with coins that we translated graphically back at our Portland design studio into the charming spinner game Up Down in which everyone wins. |