Kids Furniture by Hiromatsu
In the realm of product design, designers often play with scale and space when seeking to re-invent a well known figure or item. One of these popular items that gets re-invented is kids furniture.
This is done for practical reasons, as most furniture often proves to be too big for kids. However, when designers such as Hiromatsu apply this principle of scaling down items such as desks and chairs and maintaining a "normal" furniture-like look (in other words, furniture that isn't necessarily made out of bright colored plastic) the illusion is created.
Figure 1. Hiromatsu kid's table
As seen in figure 1, due to ones notion of what is the familiar size of a normal sized dinning room table, one might now immediatetly be aware of the actual scale of the product because the space that the product is within does not give the viewer any clues as to its size. The fact that we often encounter such object as dinning room tables on a daily basis, further establishes our creation of this common scale.
Figure 2. The figures demonstrate the true scale of this piece of furniture.
However, when seen through figure 2, the scale becomes evident when the two figures are present within a resonable distance from the product (in this case, they are both clearly sitting on it). This could argueably be an example of relative size and familiar size, in terms of the size of the adult and child.
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