The Cult of LEGO
The LEGO® brick may be the most popular toy in the world, but it's much more than just a toy. In The Cult of LEGO , John Baichtal of MAKE Magazine and Wired's GeekDad blog and Joe Meno of BrickJournal take readers on a story-packed adventure through the history of LEGO, from its humble beg...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco :
No Starch Press
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628375606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. The History of LEGO; Billund: Home of Peat Bogs and LEGO; Only the Best Is Good Enough; The LEGO Group Reality: Change Happens; Just Another Brick?; Fake LEGO; 2. Building Again; AFOLs; Women Builders; LEGO Builder Interview: Fay Rhodes; Organizing the Trove; Ingenious LEGO; Remixed Bricks; LEGO in Print; LEGO on the Web; LEGO Fan Glossary; 3. Minifig Mania; The Minifig Turns 30; Minifig Facts; Minifig Controversy; The Minifig in Pop Culture; Red-Headed Step-Figs; CubeDudes: Cartoony Geometric Figures; Sig-Figs: LEGO You; Pimp Your Fig
- Famous People, MinisizedMinifig Scale; 4. (Re)creating Icons; Carl the LEGO Guy; Architectural Re-creations; Trains; Brick Classics; Cinematic Inspirations; 5. Building from Imagination; LEGO's Odes to Imagination; Mecha; Steampunk: Pure Fan; ApocaLEGO; 6. LEGO Art; Olafur Eliasson's Collectivity Project; Douglas Coupland Ponders Time and LEGO; AME72's LEGO Graffiti; Ego Leonard; Nathan Sawaya's The Art of the Brick; Sublime Building; Zbigniew Libera's LEGO Concentration Camp; 7. Telling Stories; Vignettes; Back Stories; Comics; Political LEGO; Diorama Storytelling; Brick Flicks
- 8. Micro/MacroMicroscale; Microdioramas; Collaborative Microbuilding; Building Big; Life-Size LEGO; LEGO Records; 9. Digital Brickage; Video Games; Building Games; Computer-Aided Building; LEGO Font; Print-Your-Own Bricks; LEGO Fan Resources; LEGO Universe; 10. LEGO Robotics: Building Smart Models; MINDSTORMS; Robotics Also-Rans; LEGO Robotics Projects; FIRST LEGO League; A Successful Sideline; 11. Gatherings; The Online Beginnings; LEGO Users Groups (LUGs); LEGO Conventions Come of Age; Convention Activities; Brick Cliques; 12. Serious LEGO; Autism Therapy; Marketing with Bricks
- Prototyping a Space ElevatorHigh-Altitude LEGO; Visualizing Skyscrapers; Open Prosthetics; Serious Play; Andrew Carol's Mechanical Computers; Epilogue; Index
