Friends of mine found a neat “media mention” of the our blocks in Canadian House & Home Magazine (June 2010 edition). Thanx Kimberley (of House & Home) for this great photo, who found the blocks at Swipe (Toronto, Books on Advertising and Design). It is very humbling to see all the other great classic toys on the same page.
I found out from Bernard (once again, he connects everyone in the business), that you can now get our building blocks on airmiles. Weird that I never know about it, I wonder how the whole deal works (I’m pretty certain I know who they are getting them from… not from me though).
I just found a blog post about “Toronto’s Best Baby Stores” on blog T.O. . The post is from summer 2009 (I guess better late than never :-) ). Many of the stores sell our wooden building blocks. It feels great to be part of it all.
Hello,
Our blocks were on TV last night as part of CHCH news in Hamilton. Unfortunately there was no mention of us, but footage of kids playing with them. Gosh, I really need my branding iron to come in :-) Maybe I can even track down some video online about it.
Cheers, Hans
I just got an email from a store owner. It made me smirk.
“Kids are always enjoying our demo blocks in the store, actually I am dumbfounded that more people don’t buy them. Every single kid I show thinks they are great and plays a long time. Maybe you should make them out of lead based plastic!”
I will have to get right on that… NOT!
Come and play with us at the Locke Street Festival in Hamilton. I will be there with many building blocks in a neat outdoor setting right at the Citizen Kid store. 
We will also be having a raffle for a set of building blocks (maybe even multiple ones :-) ). The Blocks will also be on sale for a special price.
So come by, play with a bit. I love meeting new people.
P.S.: You can see the event on facebook here and invite some of your friends out.
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Link to Locke Street Festival online.
If you need directions to the Citizen Kid, you can find that here.
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I visited the Socially Responsible Design Exhibit at the Toronto International Airport yesterday. It was great seeing what others are doing, some great ideas and some really neat other products that are manufactured in Canada.
A huge thank you to Lee, who is the curator for the art at the airport. She does a great job and is very passionate about representing Canada at the airport is great. “It is often the first and last impression of Canada for travellers.”
She also told me that Treehugger reported on the show and that our blocks are featured in their article. Thank You Treehugger.
(click on image to see the blog post at treehugger.com)
Just a really quick note, we added another exciting store to our list in Ottawa. They are called Red Chair Kids and it looks like a really neat store. You can check them out online right here. There is even a little video about the store in the “about us section“.
Hi everyone,
this is todays mini. More of a classic building block castle. It still has it’s challenges though.
Hi everyone,
just a brief note. The online store at http://ukoonto.myshopify.com/ seems to work now. I just did a test run and everything works. Shopify has a really nice interface and makes it very easy to manage the store. I hope I can concentrate on all welcoming all of our visitors now :-)
More news from the Ukoonto camp really soon. Look out for a big suprise tomorrow.
Cheers, Hans
