Artist – Sculptor – Designer – Public Artist
A folio of a pop-up constructed from handmade paper, bookboard, brass, cloth, and printed photographs. When the folio is closed all the elements fold inside. When opened, the photographs rise up into position. When viewed from the proper angle, the multiple photographs align to be seen as a continuous panoramic view.
Some of Tom’s favorite product designs are toy designs. Brick Racers™ are a line of toy vehicles with a metal base and a brick plate top. These creative toys allow for open-ended, physical play, with lots of opportunity for creative destruction and storytelling. It’s all about building and then racing!
Brick Racers™ are a cross between a construction toy and a diecast car. The toys are designed to work on many existing diecast car play sets.
Brick Racers™ can also be used as educational STEM toys to explore basic physics and engineering.
Tom is the primary inventor on 2 US design patents for these vehicles. He worked collaboratively with a partner to develop a wide variety of designs for more than 20 different brick body tops. All of the brick designs use bricks that are available in the public domain. If you are interested in learning more, please reach out to Tom at thomas-strich dot com.
Blast Off Blocks is a space-themed building set of wood toy blocks. This toy design brings together the love of building with the joy of exploration. Kids can build their own space vehicle and rocket into space with this imaginative construction toy!
Kids can use their imaginations and storytelling skills to explore the planets. At the same time, the planet models can be used as STEM educational toys.