Patrick Calello was studying Industrial Design at Carnegie Mellon University when he was challenged by his professor to design a product for the do-it-yourself wooden hobby industry. It wasn’t long before this car-loving guy developed a toy car concept that would be fashioned out of wood; by 1992, he had begun manufacturing wooden cars that kids could take apart, reassemble, and race with their friends.  Since then, his designs have been inspiring creativity in children  worldwide by allowing children to visualize, assemble, and customize their toy cars. (more…)