Last year 15 students from the toy design course at shenkar college, israel and their professors yoav ziv
and assaf eshet were invited to china by the toy makers HaPe international ltd, to spend a month with them developing bamboo toys.

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back in the shenkar academy, other design issues werequestioned and explored. correctly integrating bamboo together with other materials, product appearance, and the visual language were some of the challenges the students addressed. moreover, comparison to other classic existing wood or plastic toys was inevitable and therefore we directed the students to create newer and even better bamboo dominated products.

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