Lego and Muji recently released a collaborative toy project in Japan that cleverly merges the personality of each brand.

Refinity dresses consist of interlocking parts which can be added or taken away from a garment, allowing users to alter it’s design on demand.

While far from a comprehensive study on the development of hyper-local languages, Giles Turnbull’s ad hoc research on how different children name Lego’s various building blocks is an interesting, albeit quirky, glimpse into the ways we build internal dialogues and communicate with one another.

Designers Philippe Simon and Pillard Rosetti customized their IKEA kitchen island by covering it with over 20,000 LEGO pieces.

‘Captain Slow’ on Top Gear has been at work on a new series called Toy Stories that will air in UK on BBC2 this autumn.

LEGO has teamed up with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Brickstructures, Inc. to create two LEGO sets that depict some of the architect’s iconic buildings.

We’ve been noticing more stringent enforcement of traffic laws at Shanghai’s major intersections over the past few months. At one of Shanghai’s busiest intersections, we recently noticed an interesting voting booth / suggestion box created by LEGO.
The “Satisfaction Post” (满意柱) allows citizens to vote on whether they are satisfied or not with the local police’s ability to control traffic.  Placing a red ring on a small plastic pillar means “satisfied,” while a blue ring means “unsatisfied.” Below the ringed voting system is a slit to submit any feedback.
We were interested to find a LEGO logo at the bottom of the [...]

Lego has created a photo archive of every mini-figure they have created since 1978. These mini-portraits give us a glimpse into all the different Lego sets created over time and a bit of nostalgia for those of us that grew up with mini-figs.
[Gizmodo via Paul Budnitz]

Plain old reality is rapidly being woven together with the virtual by functional augmented reality tools that attach digital to physical. We’ve seen 3D information layers used in MINI’s 2008 Cabrio ad campaign, and now Lego is playing with these auras of information. The toy company is test launching a “Digital Box”, which, when held up to an in-store camera, will superimpose a rendering of the completed Lego model on top of the product box on screen. The Digital Box was designed by Metalo for Lego, and can be seen soon at select toy stores and Lego shops around the [...]