Still here?... Where were we?...So Tim and Melanie Young packed up their stuff and moved to London. Tim Clarke, one of the inventor's of the Boglin's, told Tim to look up a company called Seven Towns when he got to England. Tim did as he was told and ended up working with Seven Towns for almost the entire time he lived there. He learned alot about how toys are invented and created some new designs and sculpted characters for alot of different toys like the Mini Boglins, Pet Aliens, Pocket Shockers and a bunch of others.
(While at Seven Town's, Tim and his work appeared in a profile of the company for the Italian magazine Gulliver. Someday, someone will tell him what it say's about him.)
During his time in England he enjoyed drinking in pubs, commenting on how short the days were in winter, drinking in more pubs, visiting Stonehenge numerous times (everyone who visited wanted to see it) and drinking in pubs. He also found time to freelance for other Toy companies like Waddington's Games, Vivid Imaginations and Ideal Losirs, which he still can't pronounce to this day.
Oh, we forgot to mention, while in England, He and Melanie had two kids, one of each. Melanie left her job to take care of the kids and Tim had to do something he'd never done before. He had to take a full time job!
So they packed up their stuff once again and moved back to the land o' opportunity. But, after living in New York and London, where should they go? Los Angeles? Chicago? Cleveland? (almost)
In the end, Tim found himself back in New York with a job as Design Director for the idea factory (all lower case, intentionally). The idea factory had bought the license to manufacture "the Meanies" the anti-beanie babies. Tim and his team of designers created some great (if twisted) characters. Along with designing Splat the Road-Kill Kat, Floaty the Fish and others, he also found he had a knack for writing the limericks which appeared on the hangtags.
Tim and his team also designed over 300 toy and souvenir products for Universal Studios, Walt Disney Stores, Disney on Ice shows and Barney.
Around this time, Tim found himself living back in New Jersey, of all places. He and Melanie added a third child and a bunch of pets. After his time at idea factory, Tim spent some time as the design director at Shelcore Toys. He was unsatisfied creatively and wanted to get back to illustration and to write some of the children's books he had started and put aside many times. So he and his family moved to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where Tim is now back doing what he does best, not working for anyone in particular! As you can see by this site he put together, he is available to work for you if you like what you see.
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