Archive for September, 2006

People love their Legos. The little plastic blocks inspire an almost fanatical obsession to create new worlds and new devices. It’s a marriage of labour, wonder and geekdom unparalleled. Legos are the first pixels: with basic ‘digital’ units of colour and space, Lego engineers craft all sorts of things.

We have the Lego pinhole camera:

Visit the Lego Pinhole Camera Site

And now we have digital Legos; this is my daughter’s and my current XBOX addiction:

http://www.lego.com/eng/starwars/videogame

Looks like one of my fave starchitects has hot and zippy new website:

http://www.tschumi.com/

The concept-first approach of BTA’s work is inspiring. I recommend checking out the Theoretical Works (read: unbuilt work) section first. Then be wowed by seeing that theory in action in the Projects section.

Bonus feature: check out the construction prices for each project (click on “credits”).

Man, some of the best design and advertising stuff I see is coming out of Brazil these days. Eye-candy galore and an apparent “can-do” attitude (some of these studios are too small to making work of this callibre). Case in point:

http://www.seagullsfly.com/ (well, these dudes are quite big, actually)

And, ok, their interactivity is a bit weak (and one-trick-pony-ish), but their style, eye for detail, and execution values are undeniable.

While we’re on the subject of Brazillians, here’s a shoutout to my bud, Mauricio: www.thesoulsurfer.net

North America: November 19, 2006 

Japan: December 2, 2006

New Zealand: December 7, 2006

Microsoft’s Developer Network has a great article on the business case for making games as accessible as possible to those with disabilities. Here are some excerpts relevant to some of the work we’re doing (images/photos from Gamasutra reprint of Microsoft 2006 Gamefest presentation):

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