Model Designer Stijn Oom joins Blocks Editor Graham E. Hancock to put 10349 together Happy Plants while talking about his journey from building Star Wars models as a child to crafting sets for Art and Botanicals

Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, third generation owner of the LEGO Group, was determined to bring technological innovation to the brick – and 40 years ago, the company introduced the first ever smart brick to allow children to program robots

MEET THE CREATIVE VISIONARIES, EACH WITH THEIR OWN DISTINCT STYLE, WHO HAVE BECOME IMITABLE ICONS OF THE INTERIOR DESIGN WORLD

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Caleb Schilling recreated a fairytale palace from the Rhine river for Brickworld Chicago

I WAS MOST interested to read Stephen Bayley’s assessment of the smart [above]in Octane 271. I have a very personal interest because I was directly involved in the beginning of the project at Swatch.