for pilot pen’s latest ad’s, they wanted to show how thin their extra-fine nibs were. advertising agency grey came up with this, and it looks great: lego minifigs tattooed using the exra fine pens!
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Aug 082010
Jun 162010
I’ve considered large scale lego furniture before, but never had enough bricks. then i saw this:
dutch based design duo minale-maeda (kuniko maeda and mario minale) playfully reprise gerrit rietveld’s grace to reconsider his de stijl masterwork, ‘buffet’ for dutch design company droog. the ‘rietveld LEGO buffet’ uses over 25, 000 pieces of LEGO, [...]
May 122010
lego are soon to bring out a minifigures series of ‘blind boxed’ characters. much like be@rbricks, each figure would come in a sealed bag, so you would never know what you were getting. Each figure comes with selected accessories, the characters themselves including: demolition dummy, forestman, cowboy, super wrestler, zombie, ninja, cheerleader, skater, tribal hunter, [...]
Jan 012010
lego have just released an app for the iphone, which turns any photo you take into a mosaic of lego bricks. i have just downloaded it, and not only is it great, it’s also free!
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Nov 222009
now, this is one of the most exciting thigs i have seen for a while. a collaboration between muji and lego. a hole punch, that punches lego sized holes in paper and card, to help you create other things.
i know it was as recent as my last post that i was saying how rubbish fake [...]
Nov 202009
i was on the v&a shop website, and came across this: the ‘lego inspired’ puzzle calender. I’m not sure if I like it or not. On the one hand, it looks like lego, but then that’s the point: it’s not. And I don’t quite understand why certain things are certain colours.
Either way, it’s one of [...]
Sep 252009
remember the post i did on james may’s lego house? well, it seems that after an unsuccessful bid to buy it (and then rebuild it) by legoland, it is being demolished. im not sure if demolished is the right word. but what i like about the images of it being taken apart are the unconventional [...]
Sep 252009
this is a tshirt, with an actual lego base plate attached to the front! im not sure how practical this would actually be, but it’s a cool idea anyway.
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