Journal

Thoughts on play, design, and raising curious humans.

Play guide

Five open-ended ways to play with the Ripple Blocks.

Blocks want to be more than a tower. Here are five prompts we love — from "build a bridge" to "invent a new animal".

April 14, 2026 4 min read
Design notes

Why we picked beech over birch for every edge.

When we started prototyping, we ran every toy through 200 cycles of kid-level abuse. One material kept winning.

March 28, 2026 6 min read
Our kind of parents

Talking to caregivers about what "screen-free" really means.

Screen-free doesn't mean anti-tech. It means protecting a window where hands, not pixels, do the work.

March 10, 2026 5 min read

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