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The Nano-Block sunglasses are a pair of sunglasses that let you attach lego blocks to the frames in any way shape or form so that you can have a different look every day and become the weirdo you’ve always wanted to be. One day you can have a castle atop the bridge of your glasses, the next a phallus shaped object, and the next a beard made from LEGO blocks. You want a pair? Just click here.
When it comes to USB drives, they’re a necessity in most industries, but the style, size and design can vary wildly. This USB 2.0 flash drive comes with a 4 gigabyte large storage capacity and a design that may bring the thoughts to a certain golden shiny protocol droid from the Star Wars saga.
Marco Sodano, an artist based in Milano, Italy, recreated Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, The Lady With the Ermine, and the painting Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer using only LEGO bricks. The perfect mixture of colors used by the artist makes these famous masterpieces easily recognizable.
Made of more than 500,000 LEGO bricks (wheels and some load bearing elements are non-Lego), the “Super Awesome Micro Project” is a fully functioning life-size car powered by an engine also made from LEGO which runs on air. The engine has four orbital engines, a total of 256 pistons and is capable of propelling the car at top speeds of approximately 20-30km.
LEGO has finally unveiled the official “Simpsons” LEGO brick set. Created in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products, the set will allow fans to build and recreate their very own version of The Simpsons house. The set will only go on sale on 1st February 2014. The toy company will also be releasing a set of Simpsons minifigs in May. The set will be priced at US$200, while the minifigs will go at $4 each. The set will feature the entire Simpson’s house, and minifigs of the show’s main characters, namely Homer, Bart, Marge, Maggie, Lisa and Ned Flanders.
The experts of LEGO have introduced a functional design of LEGO bricks in shape of a table Lamp. LEGO bricks are fully glued to each other so that no one can mess up the structure
Check out this unique LEGO-inspired clutch by Chanel for the Spring/Summer 2013 Collection. The clutch comes in multiple colors to match your wardrobe. Lagerfeld is not shy to inspiring a world of particularly interesting accessories.
These advertisements for LEGO from agency DDB aren’t real, in as far as they certainly weren’t commissioned by the brickmaker, but they’re still pretty awesome.
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Leonardo da Vinci once said: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”, and architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe adopted the motto “Less is more” to describe his extreme simplicity, by enlisting every element and detail to serve multiple visual and functional purposes (such as designing a floor to also serve as the radiator, or a massive fireplace to also house the bathroom).
Even after 500 years Leonardo’s words are true and this rule is still widely used in design and advertising. It may sound a bit contradictory, but simple things often require much more brain power to create than the most complicated stuff. And it always strikes you when something completely simple is capable of conveying so much more than you expect.
At my house, on the few shows that spends most of its time on my television every day is Top Gear. (The British version, not that weak U.S. version.) During one episode, Jeremy Clark made a joke about a co-host – James May- building a nuclear submarine out of Legos, which I thought was quite a random comment. But after looking for some exciting new Top Gear clips, I found out there was some truth the Jeremy Clark’s quip. Until now, an entire dwelling made of Lego blocks was just a dream for lunatics and Lego futurists. With the use of thousands of people and millions of bricks Mr May has built the worlds first Lego House. It has a bed, windows, two floors and a working shower and toilet. It looks amazing and is quite sick for someone who didn’t use instructions.
Pieces from artist Nathan Sawaya’s collection.
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