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USS Discovery: a LEGO Odyssey

Posted by John Lampard on Sunday, 16 March, 2008 to the design and art subset

USS Discovery: a LEGO Odyssey Awesome LEGO model of the USS Discovery One, which was the ship that travelled to Jupiter in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. As seen in the motion pictures 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: The Year We Make Contact, the Discovery is one of my favourite science fiction vessels. This model was over a year in the making and measures 185 ... Read full entry

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Lego Celebrates 50 Years of Building

Posted by John Lampard on Sunday, 3 February, 2008 to the comment subset

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 ... Read full entry

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