I’ve posted before of my love of all things tetris-y/lego-y/videogame-y. When talking with fellow designers of about my age, I find that our early exposure to pixels in all sorts of venues is the great equalizer, the one thing we all seem to have in common.
It is with that in mind that I post the following video. C’mon, we’ve all looked at some buildings and thought “oh, I know exactly what pieces of tetris fun would fill that sucker in…”
I never can quite pinpoint exactly what it was in my childhood that has led me to my professional obsession with designy-type goodness.
Was it the constant coloring?
Was it Play-Doh overload (perhaps ingested one time too many)?
Was it the massive Lego collection we amassed as children that was only too eagerly egged on by my engineer of a father?
Or was it the hours I spent in front of a screen fitting oddly shaped blocks together as a muscial theme moves quicker and quicker in the background?
Okay, it was probably a combination of all three, but I’m still quite drawn to any of these things. It …
