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Image by Regina Lim and featured with permission Before the concept of tablets and screen time, one way to appease a grumpy child was to order them a Happy Meal. Graphic design student Regina Lim’s whimsical spec work does just that, and so much more. The Malaysian student was tasked to fulfill a conceptual brief for Happy Meal packaging that’s plastic-free, constructed from sustainable materials, and uses storytelling aspects to educate children about the environment—all while respecting McDonald’s original branding and core values. Lim hit all the right notes and designed a magical forest-themed, AR-enabled Happier Meal box with maximized...

Super snazzy samurai armor-wearing teddy bears will be ready for your next Children’s Day display! Did you know that teddy bears have been around for almost 120 years now? They were first developed in 1902, simultaneously in the U.S. by Morris Michtom of Ideal Novelty and Toy Co. and in Germany by toy company Steiff. Steiff, in fact, became so world-renowned for their teddy bears and other stuffed toys that their products are often considered collectibles and can be worth a lot of money, like their ultra-rare Totoro plush. To celebrate 120 years of teddy bears, Steiff is releasing a...

With so many options available these days online when it comes to shopping for anything and everything, it’s easy to get lost amid buzzwords and impressive advertisements. This also applies when shopping for children’s items. You can find everything from toys to school materials to kids’ glasses online. To make sure you’re not wasting your hard-earned money on the wrong items, there are several important things to look out for when buying children’s items online. Read Reviews The first and last word on any product online comes from customers, who leave their opinions in the form of reviews. You can...

Gift guides seem to be popping up earlier than ever this year for a myriad of reasons and when I learned that two of my friends were already DONE with their holiday shopping during our girls’ weekend in Savannah, I figured maybe it was time to hop on it! “Gift guide” is also the number one search term on my blog at the moment so I’m guessing that means a bunch of you are ready for them, too!? I’m kicking off my 2021 gift guides with my Gift Guide for Kids which is the gift guide I find the most...

Art has long been claimed as a final frontier for automation—a field seen as so ineluctably human that AI may never master it. But as robots paint self-portraits, machines overtake industries, and natural language processors write New York Times columns, this long-held belief could be on the way out. Computational literature or electronic literature—that is, literature that makes integral use of or is generated by digital technology—is hardly new. Alison Knowles used the programming language FORTRAN to write poems in 1967 and a novel allegedly written by a computer was printed as early as 1983. Universities have had digital language...