Our mission is creating and licensing BIG ideas for kids around the world by working with our respectable clients in children’s toys and games.
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KidKenn believes that every child has a right to play, to dream and to learn anywhere in the world. Our job is to help so we strive to create toys and experiences that are fun and positive for the family and filled with purpose and social responsibility wherever we can.
We are a small but BIG IDEA workshop that is continually exposed and connected with the latest trends in the marketplace, experiences in parenting and in future ways of developing toys and games.
We love to dream, to play, to doodle and tinker with mechanisms.
We love to watch kids play with what we make and improve ideas based on what they say and how they play.
We love to build working models by hand or by using our “in-house” capabilities in digital technology, 3D printing or by working with partners on the outside.
We love to create video sizzles that demonstrate how our concepts are innovative and deliver on a super fun, meaningful, and purposeful play experience!
We primarily deliver concepts for licensing but also provide consultation to companies in many areas from brainstorming events to product development process workshops.
KidKenn is very well connected to world-class vendors in digital design, model, tooling and manufacturing in Asia.
We are a family business with over 40 years of collective experience in the toy and juvenile product design and invention industry! Toss into the mix the more than 10 years of fashion design; 5 years of global design for manufacturing experience; decades of child development. And you have KidKenn; a completely uninhibited new team who is super energized by our careers in creating FUN, FRESH and MEANINGFUL toys and children’s products that fit perfectly with the needs of families around the world!
KidKenn has a clear understanding of the most advanced digital design and manufacturing techniques in product design, packaging design, and fashion design. KidKenn is networked with global product developers and manufacturers.
We can participate in all aspects of development starting from Consumer and Trend Research all the way through to manufacturing. We have developed strong relationships with world class Manufactures in Asia. We focus on every detail of the process with an eye towards success!
Kenn is an award-winning children’s designer claiming an IDSA/IDEA Gold Award, Business Week Product of the Year Award and contributed to others through working with an amazing design and marketing teams during the years when Fisher-Price was at the top of their game!
He has served as a blue sky innovator and a visionary for years including strategic long-range planning while never forgetting the smallest details that are so critical in toy design.
“Most recently I have spent just short of 6 years in Asia creating a multi-functional toy and packaging design team with focus on Design for Manufacturing and Automation for the Global Marketplace. This Asian design team developed 80% of all Fisher-Price Global product and 100% of packaging.”
Kenn and his Asian Team was awarded the first every “Gobal Citizenship Award” by Mattel in 2016 for the initiative he created in Collaboration with Save the Children and the Indonesia Ministry of Education.
“The greatest part of my career was learning about real needs and being on the ground with those that give everything they can, not with their pockets, but with their hearts.
It is an incredibly humbling experience and has changed my life and given me perspective
through the eyes of children in need.”
Venus is currently studying at the University of Cincinnati, DAAP, Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts; she explores combining old and new techniques, styles, and experiences, such as oil painting, linocut print, laser cutting, acrylic paint, and digital art.
She works at Kidkenn for the website, digital arts, video editing, and concept development.
