Brad Larsen

I own a small design company in Hong Kong. BLD Manufacturing and Design Limited is a company located and registered in Hong Kong. The brand brings together the founders’ 30 years’ experience in product development with a network of partners including engineers, factory owners, a sourcing team and logistics experts. Product design and manufacturing are core services with BLD specializing in waterproof design, light testing equipment, assembly line fixtures, and QC processes.

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designed all forms and graphics, patented, and manufactured balloon-based products which have been successfully marketed in the toy, hobby, promotional, and message balloon industries. Designed and built balloon-forming machine and manufacturing fixtures that enabled efficient assembly. Key customers included Rhizome Design, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Goodrich Aerospace, QFC, and Thriftway.

Invented, engineered and completed the industrial design for six successful products. Responsible for seed ideation, prototyping, concept verification, and styling. Completed all production drawings for injection molded, metal stamped, and drawn parts. �- Invented the company's best-selling product, "The Pepper Ball", with sales of more than 10 million. Product is still in production (http://www.chefn.com/Product.aspx*id=14). �- Designed Cole and Mason "Emperor" Product is still in production (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cole-Mason-emperor-pepper-boxed/dp/B0000CDTX9). �- Designed the "Garlic Machine, " "Garlic Peeler, " and "Cheese Machine" products.

Conceptualized, designed, and engineered products such as computer components, furniture, bicycles, and toys for industrial design firm clients included Sony, CycleAware, Pinnacle Micro and Ready Information. �- Created heads-up display for Ready Information, which was featured in Mobile Office Magazine and worn by Walter Cronkite at the San Jose Technology trade show. �- Completed industrial design for hard drive company Pinnacle Micro. �- Short run production leading to full production of CycleAware bicycle products. TECHNOLOGY/SOFTWARE SolidWorks, Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks Flow Simulation, PDMWorks, AGi32, AGi Photometric Toolbox, Photoshop, CorelDRAW, Illustrator, Acrobat, Word, Excel, MS Project, PowerPoint

Engineered parts, designed graphics, patented, and manufactured balloon-based products which have been successfully marketed in the toy, hobby, promotional, and message balloon industries. Designed and built balloon-forming machine and manufacturing fixtures that enabled efficient assembly. Key customers included Rhizome Design, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Goodrich Aerospace, QFC, and Thriftway.