A boxed game of tiles printed with stylized faces, designed to train visual recognition and sorting. Each plaque is reduced to a few graphic elements, encouraging players to look closely and group by subtle variation. One of Creative Playthings’ late-1960s experiments in turning design graphics into teaching tools.
Condition: Plaques - excellent, some wear to box.
Founded in New York in 1945 by Frank and Theresa Caplan, Creative Playthings produced educational toys with modern design sensibilities that encouraged imagination over formulaic play. The company’s output included anything from Isamu Noguchi playground equipment to instruments designed in collaboration with ethnomusicologists and then-controversial anatomically correct dolls.
approx. 11”x8”x1”
A boxed game of tiles printed with stylized faces, designed to train visual recognition and sorting. Each plaque is reduced to a few graphic elements, encouraging players to look closely and group by subtle variation. One of Creative Playthings’ late-1960s experiments in turning design graphics into teaching tools.
Condition: Plaques - excellent, some wear to box.
Founded in New York in 1945 by Frank and Theresa Caplan, Creative Playthings produced educational toys with modern design sensibilities that encouraged imagination over formulaic play. The company’s output included anything from Isamu Noguchi playground equipment to instruments designed in collaboration with ethnomusicologists and then-controversial anatomically correct dolls.
approx. 11”x8”x1”