Spanish toy brand Mitoi has launched two collections of colourful building blocks that enable children to recreate iconic buildings from around the world (+ slideshow). More about Mitoi launches architectural building block toys
Following the popularity this week of toys by Amsterdam-based BCXSY that feature interchangeable body parts fixed together using magnets, we've collected together a selection of the most popular playthings from the pages of Dezeen. See our new Pinterest board »
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Amsterdam studio BCXSY has launched a crowdfunding campaign to produce its plush toys with body parts that can be interchanged using magnets (+ slideshow). More about BCXSY's Mixed Animals magnetic soft toys launch on Kickstarter
Designer Tom Evans has developed a range of parenting gadgets that look like collectable toys. More about BleepBleeps launches parenting devices that look like toys
This furniture collection by designer Silva Lovasová is based on tiny toy products that have been 3D-scanned and enlarged to full scale. More about 1:1 scaled-up dolls' house furniture by Silva Lovasová
Dutch Design Week 2013: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Alejo Bernal wants to help people improve their concentration spans by controlling a toy car with their minds. More about Synapse mind-controlled toy car by Alejo Bernal
Product news: these flexible silicone connecters have been designed by Christina Kazakia to help children to lash sticks together when building dens. More about Stick-lets by Christina Kazakia
Product news: Milan company Looodus has designed a toy that allows children to learn about typography and the alphabet at the same time. More about Font Alphabet Puzzle by Looodus
Twenty architects and designers including Zaha Hadid and David Adjaye have designed and constructed dolls' houses, each integrating a feature that would make life easier for a disabled child (+ slideshow). More about A Dolls' House by David Adjaye, Zaha Hadid, FAT, dRMM and others
London film agency SHOWstudio has unveiled a 3D animation of the latest home for fashion doll Barbie - a virtual brutalist dystopia designed by fashion designer Roksanda Ilincic (+ slideshow + movie). More about Barbie Dreamhouse by Roksanda Ilincic and SHOWstudio
This tricycle designed for children by Vietnamese firm a21studio has been crafted from bamboo and finished with ropes. More about Bamboo tricycle by a21studio
News: IKEA has announced that it is to produce miniature versions of some of its most popular products for children to play with. More about IKEA launches furniture for dolls' houses
Product news: Dutch brand Usuals has crafted a set of handmade wooden toys out of branches from a hazel tree that grows on the family farm of one of the designers (+ slideshow). More about Happy Toys by Usuals
Product news: this wind-up toy by British design brand All Lovely Stuff creates abstract art when let loose on a sheet of paper. More about Drawing Machine by All Lovely Stuff
Competition: Dezeen is giving readers the chance to win a set of Stackable Snowmen or Happy Little Trees Christmas decorations, both designed by Fruitsuper Design (+ movie). More about Competition: Stackable Snowmen and Happy Little Trees to be won
Competition: Dezeen and Areaware have teamed up to give readers the chance to win one of five white Balancing Blocks sets of wooden toys, signed by the designers Fort Standard. More about Competition: five sets of Balancing Blocks by Fort Standard to give away
In the next movie filmed for the Stepney Green Design Collection we curated, east London designer Donna Wilson talks about the knitted tree with creatures nestled inside it that she contributed. More about Donna Wilson on her knitted tree for the Stepney Green Design Collection
Product news: this set of wooden toys by Polish studio Poorex incorporates tools associated with household chores. More about Poor Toys by Poorex
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with toy company Papafoxtrot to give readers a chance to win one of twenty wooden models of iconic unmanned spacecrafts orbiting the Earth. More about Competition: twenty wooden satellite models by Papafoxtrot to be won
East London designer Donna Wilson will contribute a special installation to Dezeen's Stepney Green Design Collection made up of a 1.8 metre-high knitted tree with a selection of her soft-toy creatures living in it. More about Knitted tree and creatures by Donna Wilson for the Stepney Green Design Collection