Blake Noh

Who

20+Years

8+Patents

100+Products shipped

Award-winning industrial designer and inventor. I take an idea from a sketch to a product on the shelf.

Twenty-plus years in toys and consumer products. Former design director at a major international toy company, where I ran a studio of fourteen designers and shipped product for Disney, Warner Bros., Walmart, Target, Tesco, Hamleys and Toys"R"Us. Sketching, mechanisms, CAD, prototypes, the factory floor in China, the box on the shelf.

Selected work

High-profile
projects

Licensed lines for the studios, products for creators with tens of millions of subscribers, and gear tested by NBA starters.

Warner Bros.

Kong: Skull Island

Samuel L. Jackson figure sculpt progression

Lead design and development on the full toy line. It started with my concept drawing of Kong and ran through likeness sculpts, Samuel L. Jackson from drafting to final, to the figures in the box. Same job on the Rampage line for the Dwayne Johnson film.

Lead design · Concept art · Sculpt direction · Toy line · Rampage

Toy Story · Zurg Blaster

Co-developed the rotating multi-barrel firing mechanism.

Disney · Pixar

MatPat figure

Collectible and packaging for the Game Theorists. That's MatPat holding it.

Creator product

Creator figures

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 lock in shooting form. Ben Simmons and Tobias Harris with the prototype.

Invention

Products

Built and
shipped

Inventions and client products, three of them award winners.

ToyAward nominee · Nuremberg Chalk Bombs

Chalk Bombs

Fabric bags of colored chalk that burst on impact. Nominated for Toy of the Year at Spielwarenmesse.

2× IDA Silver TutorCam

TutorCam

A phone stand that gives remote students the missing camera angle. Built in weeks when schools closed in 2020.

European Product Design Award Kibble Katcher

Kibble Katcher

Aluminum and Baltic birch dog feeder that catches spilled kibble and water.

Tony Horton · P90X Power Stands

Redesigned the push-up stand for the creator of P90X.

Crunch Cup

Cereal and milk in one cup, kept apart until the sip. The product behind the press strip.

Chalk Marker

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

Microloop

The model train rebuilt as a hyperloop. Two patents pending.

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

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 is a product development firm with its own factory relationship in Ningbo. I run the design side: concept, mechanism, CAD, prototypes, tooling review, packaging. If you have a product idea and want it real, this is where it starts.

Work with me · BlueKube

Blake and his son Leo playing Cheesecake Bazooka

My own games

Founder, Brain Thunder Labs

Fast, loud party games for families. Cheesecake Bazooka was invented with my eight-year-old on a delayed flight. He still says it's his game. Optico is the second. Both on Amazon.

My games

As seen 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