Brendon Vetuskey, Harry Bradley
Background
Brendon Vetuskey — Brendon Vetuskey has worked at Mattel since 2007 and is a Staff Designer at Hot Wheels. Before Mattel, he was at Jakks Pacific; his involvement with Hot Wheels goes back to 1998, when he designed, for the company Kiddesigns, the Scream Machines (keychains with lights and sounds that replicated cars from the brand). He holds a BFA in Industrial and Product Design from the Cleveland Institute of Art.
He started in the Track and Playsets department, where he helped develop the Trick Tracks line and the Super Six Lane Raceway, was lead Monster Jam designer for a few years and managed the Entertainment team. He only moved to the car design department in 2016. Today he is lead designer for Red Line Club vehicles and co-lead for the mainline, alongside Fraser Campbell. Some of his personal cars inspired models from the brand, such as the Custom '67 Pontiac Firebird. According to an interview with the site CNCKing, he helped develop more than 25 1:64 models for collectors.
Harry Bradley — Harry Bentley Bradley (died 2023) was an automobile designer. He studied at the College of Wooster and the Pratt Institute (industrial design) and worked at General Motors from 1962 to 1966. In 1966 he joined Mattel, where he created the die-cast miniature line launched in 1968 as Hot Wheels, and he left the company in 1969 to open his own studio.
For years he collaborated with the Alexander Brothers customizers (including the Alexa and the Dodge Deora), designed the 1995 version of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile and taught at the Art Center College of Design.
