Creative
Professional:
Carl Tenbrink
Bio:
Carl's motto is, "if you can imagine it, I can make it!"
From a very young age, Carl created objects and works of art from whatever
materials he could find. As a kid, he entered into art shows and science fairs
taking many first place, "best of class" and "best of show"
awards for a multitude of creative endeavors. At age 15, Carl won a first place
ribbon, "Best of Class" and a trip to Washington DC for a scale replica
of a turn of the century rail town. Carl's inventions of numerous mechanisms
and kinetic models were only the beginning of his illustrious model-making career.
College years were spent in the creative Bachelor of Arts field and 10 months
of study in Spain, with a full load of classes at the art academy "Escola
Messana", a 13th century gothic hospital, and a complete curriculum at
the university of Barcelona.
The next 22 years after college have been spent creating products and models
and solving manufacturing issues for a host of industries: toys, medical, consumer
electronic, automotive, telecommunications, architectural and entertainment,
to name only a few. Carl has created the Batman Mini-Chopper; the Batcycle and
Monster Trucks for Mattel's Batman license; the Verti-Harry Quiddish game for
Mattel; as well as the prize winning, large-scale, interactive display for Hot
Wheels, which was the main Hot Wheels attraction at the recent NY Toy Fair.
He has designed the Stikfa Delta Boy Extreme car for Hasbro and various prototype
action car models for the "Car Launchers" license at Playmates. Carl
also created many prototype sculpts of action figures for Bandai and also developed
and created the final model of the "Foosball Table" for Warrior Custom
Golf.
To date, Carl has various patents to his name for creative solutions to real
problems or needs. He has been creating a wide variety of models for product
development companies such as: Custom Building Products, Inc.; Watkins; Wine
Innovations, LLC; Media Check; BioCybernetics and C-Tech. For these clients
he has created a diverse array of prototypes, such as: furniture, waterfall
devices, inventions for saving wine, self cleaning kitty boxes, and household
media devices to monitor the Nielson TV Ratings.
For the medical industry, he recently designed a neck brace and an innovative
field tourniquet that can be applied in less than 15 seconds. He has also recently
designed and patented a revolutionary dialysis machine.
Carl is our ASAP Department Consultant for Model Making.
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