9 Best Articles in 2022
Fast Company
How Lego Became The Apple Of Toys
Fast Company
20+ min read · From 2016 · After a decade-long slump, Lego has rebuilt itself into a global juggernaut. An exclusive look inside the company's top-secret Future Lab.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 253, including Leslie D, Helmi, Stephen C Sanders, Simon 🚀, Twitty, Clemens M. Schusterwwaq, Dominik Grolimund, ̗̀ ̗̀Manuel Marquina, Dave Esbin, Daniel Jörg, Brad Brooks, Martina Grolimund, Pat Kua
UX Planet
How LEGO Run Design Sprints at Scale
UX Planet
10 min read · From 2018 · A case study about how LEGO scaled Design Sprints throughout its organisation
Reader View · Shared by 188, including Michael Duergner, Tom Connor, Christian P. Stobbe, Cătălina Movileanu, Jacob Jarnvall, Konrad Weber, Stephanie A Kowalski, Mark Kaigwa, Herbert Bay, Marius Bleuer, Maja Grolimund-Kurth, Thomas Pleil, Dominik Grolimund, Nick Floro, Niklaus Gerber, Thomas Telandro, Thomas Power, Yash Tekriwal, Bernhard Huessy
Colossal
LEGO Letterpress: Bird Species from The Netherlands Are Printed with Everyone’s Favorite Toy Bricks
Colossal
2 min read · Feb 14th · Back in 2017, designer Roy Scholten and collaborator Martijn van der Blom brought LEGO into their letterpress workshops for elementary school students. Small and accessible to most, the ubiquitous…
Reader View · Shared by 169, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Jennifer Ouellette
Fast Company
Got a pile of random Lego? This amazing app tells you what you can build
Fast Company
3 min read · 2021-07-06 · This fan-made app beats any digital experience Lego has built to date.
Reader View · Shared by 117, including LARRY ELKAN, AIKing.Eth - Vincent Boucher, KOstas, Jesús Torres 👩💻, elpocas, Nick Floro, Jason Hirschhorn, Arin Basu
designedbycave.co.uk
The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
designedbycave.co.uk
7 min read · 2020-08-03 · Piloting an ocean exploration ship or Martian research shuttle is serious business. Let’s hope the control panel is up to scratch. Two studs wide and angled at 45°, the ubiquitous “2x2 decorated…
Reader View · Shared by 424, including Adrian Roselli 🗯, patrick h. lauke (redux) "Big Dog" #toryScum, Chris Heilmann, Esther Schindler, Alex Rainert 🤦🏻♂️, Gabriele, Stéphanie Walter, Andy Cotgreave, Nadieh Bremer, Delaney McCaffrey, Jeff Atwood, Center Centre – UIE, feilding cage, Tommy Walker, Val Head, Nils Hitze, Irene Au, Rafael Zeier, Joe Germuska, Sascha Venohr
TechCrunch
LEGO built a life size, drivable Bugatti from over a million Technic pieces
TechCrunch
4 min read · From 2018 · In what just might be the wildest thing anyone has ever built from LEGO, the company behind the bricks has built a full-size, driveable model of the Bugatti Chiron supercar.
Seriously.
Reader View · Shared by 143, including Dominik Grolimund, Trae Blain, Tom Connor, Miguel, Florian Hanke 🍎, Ryan Hoover, Oliver Ewinger, Anon Anon, Dominic Grzbielok, Debbie Meier ✍️⚖️, Jean Decherf, Jörgen Camrath, Jacob Jarnvall, ᴄʟᴀᴜᴅɪᴏ sᴄʜᴡᴀʀᴢ, Armindo Ferreira, Merkstatt, Linus Basig, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Leslie D
jacquesmattheij.com
Sorting 2 Metric Tons of Lego
jacquesmattheij.com
7 min read · From 2017 · One of my uncles cursed me with the LEGO bug, when I was 6 he gave me his collection because he was going to university. My uncle and I are relatively close in age, my dad was the eldest of 8 children…
Reader View · Shared by 43, including Howard Getson, Kenneth Kalmer, Greg Meyer, Pete Warden, Tom Connor, Helmi, Jon Thompson, Nitin Gupta
A List Apart
Learning from Lego: A Step Forward in Modular Web Design
A List Apart
20+ min read · From 2017 · Pesky nesting issues are a thing of the past if we envision web content blocks as the tops of Lego bricks.
Reader View · Shared by 90, including samyranavela, ᴄʟᴀᴜᴅɪᴏ sᴄʜᴡᴀʀᴢ, Niklaus Gerber, Sérgio Vieira, Doodle 9995 (vedi.eth), Aki Fukai ✏️, Adriano Latorre, Galen King, Pizza 🍕
countbayesie.com
Bayes' Theorem with Lego
countbayesie.com
~11 min read · From 2015 · Find Bayes' Theorem confusing? In this post we'll break down this famous
formula using Lego to help you build up a better intuition for this
foundational concept.
Reader View · Shared by 41, including Alain, Leslie D, Dominik Grolimund, shishir das, Graham Marshall, Myke Näf
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Engineers build LEGO-like artificial intelligence chip
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
4 min read · Jun 14th · MIT engineers built a LEGO-like artificial intelligence chip, with a view toward sustainable, modular electronics. The chip can be reconfigured, with layers that can be swapped out or stacked on, such…
Reader View · Shared by 30, including Iain Brown, PhD, Marcus Borba @ #CollisionConf #SiemensAtCollision, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, AI, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Rob Tiffany #IoT #DigitalTwins, Nicolas Babin
Open Culture
The Vincent van Gogh “Starry Night” LEGO Set Is Now Available: It’s Created in Collaboration with MoMA
Open Culture
2 min read · Jun 6th · Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night is one of the most popular and easily recognized paintings on earth. If you haven’t seen it person, you’ve probably seen it reproduced on a postcard, a tote bag, or…
Reader View · Shared by 28, including Jennifer Ouellette, Stephanie A Kowalski, Marsha Collier
lego.com
Galaxy Explorer 10497 | LEGO® ICONS™ | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop US
lego.com
2 min read · Jun 18th · Take a trip into space to mark 90 years of LEGO® creations
Reader View · Shared by 11, including Thomas “🐈🔭🕹” Fuchs, Dr. Pete Meyers, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻
O.C. Register
Legoland California lets you build, race and wreck the Lego Ferrari of your dreams
O.C. Register
5 min read · May 12th · Review: Lego Ferrari Build and Race fits perfectly into the Legoland ethos emphasizing hands-on play that turns kids into ninjas, pirates, firefighters and now race car drivers.
Reader View · Shared by 9
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a16z
Open Source Is Finally Coming to Financial Services
a16z
9 min read · 2021-10-15 · Imagine financial services could be built like Lego, and that those blocks could be assembled to fit hundreds of use cases. That's the power of open source.
Reader View · Shared by 204, including Mathew Ingram, Florian Graillot, Arturo Rebolledo, Chris Gledhill | gledhill.eth
Colossal
Elaborately Constructed LEGO Universes by Artist Ekow Nimako Envision an Afrofuturistic World
Colossal
3 min read · 2021-04-20 · Hundreds of thousands of sleek, black LEGO structure the utopic universes by Toronto-based artist Ekow Nimako. Ranging from life-sized figurative sculptures with an eccentric twist to sprawling…
Reader View · Shared by 56, including Ethan Marcotte
The Guardian
Investing in Lego more lucrative than gold, study suggests
The Guardian
1 min read · 2021-12-10 · Market for secondhand Lego also rises at a better rate annually than stocks, bonds, stamps, art and wine
Reader View · Shared by 27, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Esther Schindler, Michal Klacansky
WIRED
How Lego Built a Social Network for Kids That’s Not Creepy
WIRED
7 min read · From 2017 · Lego Life wants to be the internet's first troll-free zone.
Shared by 50, including Dominik Grolimund, Twitty, Merkstatt, Martina Grolimund, Dominic Grzbielok, Jeff Atwood, Leslie D, Thomas Power, Fabian Pfortmüller, Florian Hanke 🍎
lego.com
LEGO® Women of NASA launches November 1st
lego.com
3 min read · From 2017 · Today, the LEGO Group presented the final design and launch date for the Women of NASA LEGO® set.
Reader View · Shared by 34, including Nils Hitze, Eric L. Barnes, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖
Zapier
Here’s how LEGO sets can make your workday more productive
Zapier
2 min read · 2021-09-18 · Desk jobs just don’t deliver a sense of accomplishment.
Reader View · Shared by 213, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Vincenzo Tremonte, Matthew Guay, Massimiliano Aroffo, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Guy Kawasaki
lego.com
Nintendo Entertainment System™ 71374
lego.com
2 min read · 2020-07-14 · Recreate the Nintendo Entertainment System™ in LEGO® style!
Reader View · Shared by 34, including John Voorhees, Jeff Atwood, Thomas “🐈🔭🕹” Fuchs, A Sparkle of Genius, Nils Hitze, Mike Rundle, Jamie Indigo👾 100% Human Tech SEO, Dr. Justin Tarte
logodesignlove.com
Evolution of the LEGO logo
logodesignlove.com
3 min read · From 2017 · The red, white, yellow, and black LEGO logo is synonymous with one of the world’s largest toy manufacturers, but it didn’t always look so familiar.
Reader View · Shared by 36, including Agustin, Yala, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Natan Souza 🌴, Thomas Power, Niklaus Gerber, Andrea Desiato, Cameron Yick
lego.com
Typewriter 21327 | Ideas | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop US
lego.com
2021-06-09 · Build your own old-fashioned typewriter in LEGO® style
Shared by 35, including Thomas “🐈🔭🕹” Fuchs, Karen K. Ho, Chris Heilmann
