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Kid Stuff Doesn't Have to Be Ugly: What's With All the Plastic Crap?

Kid Stuff Doesn't Have to Be Ugly: What's With All the Plastic Crap?

Update: 2019-03-07

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New babies don't come with tons of injection-modeled nonsense, but it tends to wash up in their wake. But why is the infant paraphenalia and playtime juvenalia so poorly designed? Fatherly Podcast host Joshua David Stein put the question to architecture critic Alexanda Lange, author of "The Design of Childhood," Mark Riegelman, the world's most badass playground designer, and Ben Kaufman, CEO and founder of CAMP, the experiential toy store. The first Fatherly Podcast live show takes off from there!

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Kid Stuff Doesn't Have to Be Ugly: What's With All the Plastic Crap?

Kid Stuff Doesn't Have to Be Ugly: What's With All the Plastic Crap?

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