Product developer · inventor · 8 patents · millions sold

Blake has dazzled me with his ability to creatively take on a brand and deliver impressive product.

Richard Rivezzo
Director of Toys · Warner Bros.

Blake
Noh

My work · featured on
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Who

MillionsUnits sold
8+Patents
100+Products shipped

Award-winning industrial designer and inventor.
I take an idea from a napkin sketch to a product on the shelf, and I've done it more than a hundred times.

20+ years designing and developing products. Director of Product Development at BlueKube, an international design and manufacturing firm with a factory partner in Ningbo. Before that I ran a fourteen-person toy design studio shipping for Disney, Warner Bros., Walmart, Target, Tesco, Hamleys and Toys"R"Us.

Sketch, mechanism, CAD, prototype, tooling, factory floor, box on the shelf. I do the whole run, not one piece of it.

Selected work

High-profile
projects

Warner Bros., Disney, YouTube's biggest creators, NBA starters. All of them have held something I designed.

Kong: Skull Island theatrical display
Warner Bros.

Kong: Skull Island

Blake's concept drawing of Kong
Samuel L. Jackson figure sculpt progression

Design director on the Kong: Skull Island toy line for Warner Bros. We landed the deal, then took the script and turned it into a product line: the characters, the price points, the sculpts, the engineering, the packaging. A fourteen-person studio, one brief, one very good-selling line. Then we did it again for Rampage.

Design director · Deal to shelf · Script to line · Price points · Sculpt · Engineering · Rampage
Toy Story Zurg Blaster

Toy Story · Zurg Blaster

Co-developed the rotating multi-barrel mechanism inside the Zurg Blaster.

Disney · Pixar
MatPat holding his Game Theory figure

MatPat · Game Theory

Collectible figure and box for The Game Theorists. That's MatPat holding it.

Creator product
Creator holding his collectible figure

TheOdd1sOut

Figure for one of YouTube's biggest animation channels, in its creator's hands.

Creator product
Ben Simmons and Tobias Harris training with the shooting glove prototype

NBA shooting glove

Cables and magnets that lock in shooting form. Ben Simmons and Tobias Harris trained with the prototype.

Invention

Products

Award-winning
products

Three award winners and three more that shipped. Scroll to fan through them, or use the arrows.

ToyAward nominee · NurembergChalk Bombs
Chalk Bombs
2× IDA SilverTutorCam
TutorCam
European Product Design AwardKibble Katcher
Kibble Katcher
P90X Power Stands
P90X Stands
Crunch Cup
Crunch Cup
Chalk Marker
Chalk Marker

Chalk Bombs

Cloth bombs of colored chalk that burst on impact. Nominated Toy of the Year at Spielwarenmesse Nuremberg, the world's largest toy fair, and a viral hit.

Invention · Toy · ToyAward 2017 nominee

TutorCam

The missing camera angle for remote school: the paper, the pencil, the book. Designed and shipped in weeks when classrooms closed in 2020. Two IDA Silvers: Teaching Aids and Design for Social Impact.

Education · IDA Silver, Teaching Aids · IDA Silver, Design for Social Impact

Kibble Katcher

An aircraft-aluminum and Baltic-birch feeder that catches spilled kibble and water. In a market of plastic bowls, it won the European Product Design Award.

Pet · European Product Design Award 2022

Tony Horton · P90X Power Stands

Tony Horton wanted a better push-up stand. I redesigned it for the P90X crowd.

Fitness · Product design · Mechanism

Crunch Cup

Cereal and milk in one cup, kept apart until the sip. People, Today, Forbes and Food Network all ran it.

Housewares · Product design

Chalk Marker

A powdered-chalk marker for sidewalks. The follow-up to Chalk Bombs.

Toy · Product design · Packaging

Success is a result of combining creativity with practicality and innovation. Blake offers a unique combination of these traits that can benefit any organization.

Jim StovallEmmy winner · Bestselling author

And then

A hundred more

Licensed lines, blasters, vehicles, playsets, role-play, games. Over a hundred products on shelves at Walmart, Target and Toys"R"Us. And more. And more. And more.

Now

Have an idea?
Here's the door.

Blake is one of the innovative people we have identified in product development. His experience from inception to final shelf product is heralded in the field.

Christopher CooperFire Captain · LAFD
Blake at BlueKube with the Kibble Katcher

Client product development

Director of Product Development, BlueKube

BlueKube takes a product from idea to mass production, with a factory partner in Ningbo. I run the design side: concept, mechanism, CAD, prototypes, tooling review, packaging. Bring the idea. We make it real, then we make it in volume.

Work with me · BlueKube
Blake and his son Leo playing Cheesecake Bazooka

My own games

Founder, Brain Thunder Labs

Two games on Amazon. Cheesecake Bazooka: rock-paper-scissors turned into a card brawl, invented on a delayed flight with my eight-year-old. He still says it's his. Optico: a memory game you play with light. Learn in two minutes, play in five, argue about it for an hour.

My games

My work · featured on

People, The Verge, Mashable, BuzzFeed, Today, Digital Trends, Forbes, Food Network

Contact

Got an idea?
Let's build it.

Work with mebluekube.com GamesBrain Thunder Labs Instagram@blakenoh