When it comes to children’s toys design is extremely important. Inventors cant just make any toy, they have to make one that is designed well and is fun and easy for kids to play with. If you’ve been alive anytime in the past 40 years, then surely you’ve played around with a Lite-Brite at least once or twice. The Lite-brite board was a commonly used childhood toy to let kids imagination flow. It was a toy that allowed the buyers to create their own designs as well as follow patterns from the manual. The designs from the manual are asymmetrically balanced so that the human eye will see an equal visual weight. The designer who came up with the patterns made them that way so that the designs would stand out even more. The way the litebrite board is composed is quite interesting. There is a black board with equidistance circular holes every quarter inch. The holes are there for the placement of the colored pins. The pins can be placed in any hole, and can create any pattern or design your heart desires. When the design is finished there is a light switch that you turn on and it causes all of the colored pins glow. The design turns itself into instant pop art. The design you have created becomes the focal point of the board and the extra black space turns into the negative space of the image. The designer’s goal of this particular product was to find a way for every person to be able to express their designs through something as simple as a black board and colored pegs.
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