Dmitriy joined the team in early 2015. He is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design and has been a freelance designer in Transportation, Entertainment and Industrial design fields. His work can be seen on TV, in the air and the sea, and in some mansions around LA. Before joining the Hot Wheels team, he was a co-founder in an electric car startup. Outside of work he juggles multiple roles: a husband, a father, a furniture designer and a mechanic for his vintage 911.
His favorite Hot Wheels projects include: 2016 SDCC X-wing Carship, 2015 SDCC Batman vs Superman Twin Mill, 2017 Line of the Star Wars Carships, 2017 Aristo Rat
Pinch me. Is there really a #Land Rover in the #2018 Hot Wheels mainline? Just like #Jeep — which also reemerged in the Hot Wheels mainline this year — Land Rover vehicles have typically been reserved for the Matchbox brand over there at Mattel. Well, times, “they are […]
Its safe to say that the Hot Wheels #Porsche game is strong right now. The #2018 Hot Wheels lineup brings us new models such as the ’71 Porsche 911, Porsche 918 Spyder, and this #Porsche 917 LH — but the Hot Wheels / Porsche relationship didn’t just start […]
For guys like me, the ’90s don’t seem that long ago as I remember my friend’s dad actually owning a Nissan 180SX. The ’90s we also the start of the #Hot Wheels Race Team in segment series form. Now, we are combining “classic” #JDM vehicles with neo- Hot […]
Chances are, you’ve seen images of the newest #Cruise Bruiser from the #2017 Hot Wheels #HW Daredevils series — and hopefully, you’ve had success finding it as part of the “K” cast assortment along with its Super #Treasure Hunt variant. If you haven’t seen it, we have that […]
Can you ever have too much chrome? Simply put, yes you can. But I don’t believe that to be the case with this year’s 10-car #Super Chromes (2017) series. The #Dmitriy Shakhmatov Designed #Gazella GT is a great example of what this series is all about. Debuting in […]
With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) opening last Friday, people across all walks of life are undoubtedly lining up to see yet another blockbuster from the Star Wars movie franchise — a franchise so popular that we are now viewing entire movies about tangential story lines. Great for […]
Fresh off the pegs is the brand-new, Hot Wheels Aristo Rat. Clearly a play on the word aristocrat, which is a term for “someone from the ruling class”, it can be implied that this racer rules its class on the local dirt track. But that is not the […]
Fresh off the 30th Annual Hot Wheels Collectors Convention in Los Angeles, we take a look at one of the many Hot Wheels cars that I actually picked up at the show. All my area Walmarts got in the Star Wars Planets dump bins so I didn’t see the […]
The #Hot Wheels Characters cars are, by far, Hot Wheels largest expansion to the brand in a long time and they have been bringing in a slew of pop culture collectors and kids. While some traditional collectors are still seeing them as an eye sore as the pegs are […]
Just about every year for the last decade, Hot Wheels has made their presence known at the grandaddy of all comic cons, the San Diego Comic Con (SDCC). This year, they showed up with all kinds of #Pop Culture and #Hot Wheels Characters releases but one of their […]
