Lego Celebrates 50 Years of Building
Hot on the heels of the Helvetica font’s half century, another classic cultural icon celebrates its 50th birthday this year, none other than Lego building bricks.
It was at 1:58 p.m. on January 28, 1958, that then-Lego head Godtfred Kirk Christiansen filed a patent for the iconic plastic brick with its stud-and-hole design. Since then, the company has made a staggering 400 billion Lego elements, or 62 bricks for every person on the planet. And if stacked on top of one another, the pieces would form 10 towers reaching all the way from the Earth to the Moon.
It’s fair to say that these building blocks of creativity haven’t just amused the youngest of toy builders either…
