Brian Jablonski

The majority of Brian Jablonski’s professional career has been in the toy industry. He has always loved toys, but early on, never really thought it would be a large part of his profession. He attended undergrad at the Center for Creative Studies College of Art and Design in Detroit where he received his BFA. Shortly after that, he earned a scholarship from Domus Academy in Milan, Italy, where he was awarded his Master’s in Industrial Design.

After returning to the US, his initial design career included designing exhibits in Detroit for the automotive industry. Then he worked as a design consultant at NCR Corporation as part of a small development team designing various computer hardware, some of which garnered industry recognition and awards, including two IDSA Industrial Design Excellence Awards and an Auszeichnung für gutes Design from Industry Forum Design Hannover.

Following those experiences, his career became more focused on mass-produced consumer products, with the majority of his profession being spent within the toy industry. He has designed items for Fisher-Price, Discovery Channel, Johnson & Johnson, Playtex, and others and spent the past 20 years at Hasbro as senior design director reimagining and developing the NERF brand. He has taught Sketching for ID, ID Graduate Design Studio, Design Principles and Spatial Dynamics at RISD.