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Wednesday, May 17, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Keast draws dreams for inventors
By Jim Cornelius
News Editor
If you’ve ever had a great
idea for a product, but weren’t
sure how to get from idea to
reality, you need to meet
Brian Keast. His business
name tells you what he can do
for you: I Draw Dreams For
Inventors.
With a fertile sense of
creativity and years of prac-
tical experience in computer
assisted design (CAD) and
3D printing, Keast actually
does a lot more than draw
your dreams — he can help
you work through each step in
turning an idea into a viable
product.
“I’m just a facilitator for
your thinking,” Keast says.
“Probably what I really excel
at is mechanical designing.”
Keast’s website describes
his services:
“Familiarizing myself with
your project, answering your
questions and offering a path
for you to take, is all free of
charge. I take no money down
and I don’t require a deposit.
You’re not charged a dime
until you’re sure you can use
my services and that we both
understand the path you’d
like to take. This way you can
relax while we review your
project.
“If you need a 3D model
for printing or an eventual
mold, detailed technical
drawings, presentation files,
or even animations of your
product assembling, then I
can help you. I can also pro-
duce marketing videos for
YouTube and realistic, high-
resolution pics for flyers,
posts to Instagram, Facebook,
or any other social media
outlet.”
Keast has worked on the
Debooter ski boot remover, a
fire detection tool for air ducts
and many other products.
While Keast emphasizes
that his job is to facilitate the
inventor’s ideas, he’s also
capable and willing to con-
tribute if the inventor is open
to it.
“He’s very artistic,”
Brian’s wife, Joanie, told The
Nugget. “He almost always
comes up with ideas that bet-
ter the product.”
Keast’s mechanical apti-
tude manifested itself early.
“At eight years old, I
took apart my grandmother’s
edger,” he recalled with a
grin.
He readily acknowledges
that he didn’t get it put back
together again, but the pattern
of mechanical curiosity and
the willingness to jump in and
get his hands dirty was set.
Keast worked for
Oldsmobile and Cadillac
and independent shops for
15 years. Then he became a
general contractor, in high
demand for his creativity and
attention to detail in the Palo
Alto area in California.
He and Joanie owned land
in Klamath, and planned to
build there. However, a friend
and real estate agent told
them to check out a house off
Holmes Road near Sisters and
they were instantly hooked on
the area.
“When we drove through
Sisters I thought, ‘this is the
cutest town in the world,’”
Joanie said.
They moved here four
years ago and extensively
remodeled their home before
Brian launched his design
endeavor.
Keast has a remarkable
calling card that demon-
strates both his wild creativ-
ity and his mechanical apti-
tude. He owns and operates
a huge pickup truck that is
often featured in local car
shows, imprinted with I Draw
Dreams and flames on the
side.
The signature truck was
born out of an accident.
After the rear end of his 1996
pickup locked up on the free-
way, Keast decided to order
rear differentials that would
never break. When they
arrived, they were way too
Brian Keast brings his formidable talents to bear in bringing people’s ideas
for inventions to fruition.
big for the truck. So, Keast
built his truck around it.
While the truck is tremen-
dously tall, it is not jacked up.
“The height of the truck
is actually as low as it can be
with those differentials,” he
said.
Despite its massive size,
the truck is 100 percent
street-legal, which Keast was
required to prove in a lengthy
process with the State of
California. Oregon has signed
off on it, too.
“It’s a fun way of meeting
people,” Joanie said.
The truck is an illustration
of Keast’s “never-say-can’t”
attitude. It’s an attitude he
encourages in inventors. Very
few ideas are for products
that are actual needs. Most
are wants, and you just never
know what the public is going
to decide it really wants.
“A product that goes to
market doesn’t have to be
something people need,”
Keast said.
Keast believes in giving
people’s ideas the chance to
become something, and he
has the skills, experience and
background to actually make
it happen. For more informa-
tion, visit www.idrawdreams
forinventors.com.
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