Lego goes bad, and Pilot gets good
July 28, 2010 | Tags: advertising, geeky design humor, Legos
Too good not to pass on: the Grey ad agency’s campaign for Pilot extrafine pens. A taste:
Click through to the full campaign on the DesignBoom blog. In the meantime, we’ll leave you with the equally hilarious and disturbing Lego thong and tramp stamp:
8-Bit Trip
July 14, 2010 | Tags: 8-bit, Legos, nostalgia, old school, video games
For those of us who remember waiting online in a Macy’s to play one of the first-ever PacMan machines, who roamed the caves of Zork in their minds on sleepless nights, who felt a roller-coaster thrill the first time they played Pitfall Harry, there is a magic in the 8-bit video game that will never fade.
Here, an almost incomprehensibly painstaking video project combining the three greatest things in the world, or at least three things without which our lives would have been a little darker: Legos, 8-bit video games, and Swedish electronica:
And check out the mind-boggling making-of, courtesy of Design Boom.