It is impossible not to think of Charles and Ray Eames or of Enzo Mari and the game of the 16 animals when talking about design and wood animals; anyhow it seems that the pedagogic, aesthetic and formal research on wood animals in the design world stays alive and cyclically emerges/reappears as to suggest that designers and design firms carry in their DNA a strong interest for the zoomorphic interpretation.
Woodyzoody was born from an idea of Giulio Iacchetti and it presents itself as a small wood animal publisher; it is the result of the challenge/contest that 12 designers have decided to pick participating to this coral project; here opinions and ideas have been shared to give birth to a first collection of animals: the chick, the platypus, the chicken, the hippopotamus, the sperm whale, the beaver, the toucan, the woodpecker, the fox, the octopus, the ray and the ostrich.
The Woodyzoody animals have been created following a personal and aesthetic research by each designer and they all have one common element: every piece is turned and then worked/perfected by the numerical control machine.
