{"id":2613,"date":"2012-04-05T08:20:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T13:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2015-01-29T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T23:30:13","slug":"here-is-a-neat-idea-the-package-is-the-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"Here is a neat idea, the package is the toy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oscar-diaz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tube-Toys_Tractor_Oscar-Diaz.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Package = Toy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.oscar-diaz.net\/?p=1437\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oscar-diaz.net\/?p=1437\">Toys<\/a> designed by the London based designer <a title=\"http:\/\/www.oscar-diaz.net\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oscar-diaz.net\/\">Oscar Diaz<\/a> assemble from their own packaging. Smaller components of the toy are neatly packaged inside the largest component, which, in this case, is the cylindrical body of the locomotive. Once the assembly is complete, the toy is ready for play with no packaging material needing to be discarded.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Better For Children<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Naturally, this is a great idea from both the children&#8217;s and the parents&#8217; points of view.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oscar-diaz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Tube-Toys_Tractor1_Oscar-Diaz.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Addresses children&#8217;s inexplicable desire to play with a toy package almost as much as the the toy itself.<\/li>\n<li>Young children assemble the toy themselves improving dexterity and hand\/eye coordination.<\/li>\n<li>Emphasizes and imprints values of recycling and renewing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Better For Consumers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are substantial consumer benefits with this idea as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Renewable<\/li>\n<li>Recyclable<\/li>\n<li>Compostable<\/li>\n<li>High distribution efficiency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can check it out at <a title=\"http:\/\/www.oscar-diaz.net\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oscar-diaz.net\/\">Oscar Diaz<\/a>&#8216;s web site using <a title=\"http:\/\/www.oscar-diaz.net\/?p=1437\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oscar-diaz.net\/?p=1437\">this<\/a> link.  <\/p>\n<p>Your rating:<br \/>\n[starratingmulti id=4 tpl=12]<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92012 PackageRepublic.com. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maaksolutions.com\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/packagerepublic.com\/files\/MSAd_horizontal.jpg\" width=\"468\" class =\"alignnone\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Package = Toy Toys designed by the London based designer Oscar Diaz assemble from their own packaging. Smaller components of the toy are neatly packaged inside the largest component, which, in this case, is the cylindrical body of the locomotive. Once the assembly is complete, the toy is ready for play with no packaging material [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,102,57],"tags":[200,199],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-package-design","category-package-innovation","tag-oscar-diaz","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3390,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/3390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagerepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}