KidKenn is a family business. We invent and license innovative toys and games for kids of all ages as well as provide creative solutions for parents and babies around the world. As a family, we strive to create alternatives to digital play.
Capabilities and Deliverables
We are flexible in meeting our client's needs and expectations. Our preference is to establish a strong partnership upfront, gather specific wishes and expectations in order to achieve great inventions that best fit your needs.
We like to focus on inventions that are mechanical and utility in nature but also love to create new IP.
Deliverables can be in conceptual rendering form and storyboards to digital or physical looks/like works like models ready for product evaluation, costing and play-testing.
Our studio has two digital 3D printers with multi-color part capabilities.
Preliminary concept sketches
KIdKenn PlayTest - Volley Shot
Original Foosketball PlayTest Model
30+ Years
Developing
Toys prior to KidKenn
31 years of working on both internal and external Global Brands for a fortune 500 company
20 Years of Creative Leadership for Fisher-Price in US,
Hong Kong and China
Building a World-Class Toy Design Team in Asia
Brainstorming for the Emerging Market
KidKenn has the ability and resources to set up and facilitate brainstorms anywhere in the world!
Teaching and inspiring innovation in someways was reversing the culture.
Breaking out of character!
Foam-core Workshop
Outcome: A successful line of low-price baby toys designed for the emerging markets in China and India.
Working with Teams to Create
Classic Intellectual Properties
Head of creative team that worked with experts to conduct "in-home" research and brainstorms to create the biggest infant line in the company's history translated in more than 30 languages.
Accredited with the conception of an action figure line that was targeted towards preschoolers and became the number one preschool cartoon on Warner Brothers!
"Good guys that are cool guys!"
Creating Baby
Collections
As Head of Design and Fashion, our team created unique platforms that are better for the baby and mom while providing the fun and character-based fashions that moms expected from Fisher-Price in this range of products.
Fisher-Price Jumperoo
Fisher-Price Baby Papasan
Baby Rainforest Collection
Cradle Swing is an innovative platform as it swings in two directions
Developed Baby Characters exclusive for the China Market.
2000 TOTY
Award for
Preschool Toys
Preschool Toy
Inventions
The 2-in-1 Bach to Rock Guitar transforms from a violin to a guitar with real working metal strings sold more than 300K units in its first year and is sold in Amazon today.
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Accredited with the creation of Rescue Heroes, the first action figure line designed for preschoolers with big feet so they can easily stand up. It was the number one preschool cartoon on Warner Bros. It was re-launched in 2019.
Child Research and Play Testing
Kenn created the vision and execution of the Mattel "Play and Discovery Center" for play testing and child "can-do" texting research in Shenzhen, China that is a critical part of toy development.
Built a team of qualified and experienced child development experts in China.
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Social Innovation
A diverse group of key stakeholders, including Mattel Design, Mattel Children's Foundation, Child Development, Marketing net with representatives from Save the Children and the Indonesian Ministry of Education in Jakarta to brainstorm on advocating the "right to learn" and on developing play-kits for low resource children in Indonesia.
Kenn led a team of global experts in research to conduct ethnographic research at schools , homes and clinics asking what are the most important things to teach and learn.
KidKenn is looking for corporate partners who are interested in 'social innovation' as a way to help parents and children anywhere in the world with the advantage of seeding the market with brands. seed the market for brand strong brands and product.
Learning Playground
How do we advocate the importance of "learning through play" so that parents and teachers in low resource communities can understand the benefit and adopt it in their preschools?
My concept is to add basic learning and physical development in a community playground.
Adding play-based learning and familiar outdoor games to an outdoor or indoor playground.
This concept was presented as a consideration for the Ministry of Education in Indonesia.