Tri

Construction Toy for Tri, play without boundaries!

Tri is a wooden construction toy that offers the possibility of creating unlimited shapes. It combines the tradition of wooden toys with contemporary design. Classic carpentry meets today's sustainable materials, technologies and techniques. It is both a creative game, made for fun, and a design object created to inspire art lovers. Tri prompts imagination, motor skills, decision-making and concentration. It explores geometry, balance and spatial composition. Each piece is hand-finished with non-toxic natural oils, providing a smooth effect that highlights the wood's natural grain.

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Unique Properties

Tri is a wooden construction game, which differs from typical block games, as it responds to different geometries, achieving countless abstract structures. Tri is not just a game, it is also a design object, which encourages its users to feel like artists by creating their own decorative figures. Tri was made with sustainability in mind. From its pieces to its packaging, designed by curving and engraving the wood with the necessary information, as well as a QR code so printing the instructions is not necessary.

Tags

Toy design, construction toy, wooden toy, sustainable toy, educational game, artistic play, concentration, open-ended toy, sustainable design, wooden design, sustainable gift.

Production Technology

Pieces Core Material: Plywood; Pieces Production technology: CNC Laser Cut; Pieces Termination Material: Non-toxic natural oils and waxes; Termination Material Production Methodology: Sanded and painted by hand. Packaging Core Material: Plywood; Packaging Production technology: CNC Laser Cut and Engraving. Using Kerf Cut technique, to achieve the curvature of the wood without compromising its strength and durability. Packaging Termination Material: Non-toxic natural oils and waxes; Termination Material Production Methodology: Sanded, painted and assembled by hand.

Design Challenge

Creative challenges involve multiple aspects. The creation of an environmentally friendly product. The materiality needs to respond to this premise, in addition to react correctly to the mechanical demands of the game, depending on the players, their skills and strength. As well, discovering the perfect relationship between the thickness of the available wood, and the size of the pieces. Extensive research was executed in the packaging design, followed by numerous Kerfing method tests, cutting various patterns, to achieve the necessary wood's bending point, avoiding its breakage.

Project Duration

The idea of Tri began several years ago, but it became reality in February 2022, when the first Tri prototype was made, a sustainable product, including its packaging. Commercialization in Chile began in May 2022. In September 2022 it was one of the 4 brands selected to represent Chile at the Autumnfair, Birmingham, UK. Where it also participated in the Power of One sustainable products exhibition. In October 2022, it began to be sold in Barcelona, from where it is marketed to the rest of Europe.

Operation Flow

Tri challenges players to have fun, think and create with an easy connection of wooden pieces. Decision making regarding position and color, and reinforce understanding of three-dimensional space, geometry, and balance. With Tri the users can achieve endless configurations, just like imagination. While the pieces have specific connection points [three per piece], they can be joined in any position, allowing players to disregard the one and only rule of the game and give place to free play.

Research

Qualitative - Experimental Is Tri an entertaining game? Develops concentration and other skills? Is it possible to get people away from plastic and screens, returning to the tradition of wooden games with innovative design and technology? Participatory - Experimental Design Observation - Tests. Focus group - Materials test Target audience - Tri has no rules. Through free play, the dynamic construction lets the player decide how the construction will be executed. Developing a creative identity expression through playing. Tri, a sustainable game that promotes moving away from screens and plastic.

Inspiration

Inspiration comes from a glance to the past. Reviving tradition with innovative design and technology, returning to sustainable wooden toys, with assembling pieces and a distinct geometric logic. Also inspired in wood, promoting the use of eco-friendly materials, made to last. An educational game of concentration and creativity that encourages people of all ages to build unconventional shapes, in a new open-ended way of playing, stimulating artistic development and most importantly, having fun.

Image Credits

Image #1: Photographer Aryeh Kornfeld, Tri 60, 2025. Image #2: Photographer Aryeh Kornfeld, Connecting, 2025. Image #3: Photographer Aryeh Kornfeld, Art lovers, 2025. Image #4: Photographer Aryeh Kornfeld, Tri playing, 2025. Image #5: Photographer Aryeh Kornfeld, Tri design object, 2025. Video Credits: Photographer Aryeh Kornfeld / Production Meids SpA, Tri presentation, 2025. Copyrights belong to Tri®, 2022. All Rights Reserved.

Project Overview

Tri Construction Toy has been a Silver winner in the Toys, Games and Hobby Products Design award category in the year 2024 organized by the prestigious A' Design Award & Competition. The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.

Silver Recognition

Lili Gendelman was recognized with the coveted Silver A' Design Award in 2025, a testament to excellence of their work Tri Construction Toy.

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