From Yo-yos to Carseats with Kenn Morton
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My guest this week Kenn Morton has won the Industrial Design Excellence Gold Award, Business Week Product of the Year Award, and participated in many others during his 31 years with Fisher-Price. He has a tremendous passion for children and parents in need and has worked with a collaboration between Save the Children, Mattel and the Ministry of Education in Indonesia to create teaching play kits.
In this episode we dive into the unique design challenges that the children’s market presents - from yo-yos to car seats! I ask him how design practices have changed throughout his years in the industry. We discuss how to balance education and fun in a learning toy which leads into a very powerful discussion about Kenn’s work with children in Indonesia.
Enjoy this insightful episode and thank you for listening!
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Power Kid Podcast
Aug 27, 2019
At KidKenn we applaud not only corporations who engage in new materials and processes that are sustainable but those who understand the importance of introducing children at an early age ECO responsibility. We have a flood of concepts in this area for preschoolers in our hopper and are looking to partner with responsible organizations to innovate toy concepts around this to effect the future of families on a global level.
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Kenn Morton
Founder
Sept, 2019
