Tim Hayes

Cardboard Helicopter is a product development and industrial design firm located in Lakewood, Ohio. We visualize and develop refined concepts for innovative products. In addition, we assist in enhancing abstract or general ideas, including formulating renderings and prototypes at an affordable price. Our team works directly with inventors and companies seeking sophisticated and innovative product designs.

Imagine

Our goal at Cardboard Helicopter is to bring out the childlike creativity in everybody. We provide a new perspective on products ranging from children's toys, housewares, and even medical products, assisting in the design from the ground up. It all begins with ideas and sketches ranging from mild to wild!

Develop

We help take product ideas to the next level utilizing state-of-the-art 3D rendering and prototyping. Our internal 3D printer efficiently creates physical, functional designs, and our passionate staff includes some of the best local designers and creative minds. We strive to provide every product or idea with that “wow” factor for companies, inventors and licensees.

Launch!

Many of the concepts we’ve created are taken to the next level through manufacturing or licensing. We seek out the best fit for our product designs and work closely with these companies to bring the ideas to market!

Head of innovation of a start-up medical product company. Helped with industrial design, graphic design, exhibit design, along with creating a manufacturing facility and operating workplace. Created new ideas, as well as developing medical products for production.

Industrial designer for outdoor power equipment. Designed everything from tractors to snow throwers. Created new concepts along with production products. Learned from one of the best group of designers I've ever worked with.

Helped develop a new product line of innovative health and beauty devices to co-develop with Proctor & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson. Worked on presentations, story-boarding, conceptual sketching and rendering, website development, brand identity, prototyping, and graphics

Team Power Wheels/ ESPN seasonal sports. Conceptualization of children's ride on vehicles. From initial sketching and ideation & rendering, to final presentation models.

Sketching, rendering, research, model making, creative sessions, client presentations.