The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks: The Inside Story of a Design Icon | Daniel Konstanski

LEGO seems to be bound up in our collective memories - as a universal pastime, an ingeniously fun learning experience, and a brilliant way to spend hours of spare time. Everyone has 'their' LEGO too - whether humble bricks and bases, ingenious, fully moving LEGO Technic kits, or the iconic Star Wars tie ins.  Daniel Konstanski understands that LEGO stays with us, and has written the first official book for all of us adult brick lovers. The Secret Life of LEGO takes the reader on a visually stunning journey from the very earliest hollow bricks to the complex shapes and building techniques of today.

LEGO® bricks are design icons and marvels of engineering. Virtually unchanged for over fifty years, the brick is still at the very centre of the LEGO ethos: each brick connects to every other brick, allowing the construction of almost anything you can imagine. LEGO minifigures may be the friendly faces of the LEGO World, but bricks in all their different shapes and forms are its very foundation. 

Here, Konstanski explores the brick's rich history in full colour and unparalleled detail. Granted unprecedented access by the LEGO Group, he has interviewed design masters, element testers and the so-called 'rock stars, the set designers, to reveal for the first time how and why new LEGO bricks are made.

This is the book the fans have always wanted: a truly behind-the-scenes look at the story of the beloved LEGO brick and the company which makes it, with a wealth of exclusive visual material from the LEGO ldea House and its team of historians in Billund.

Size: 214 x 258mm (hardback)

Pages: 384 (over 400 full colour illustrations)

Publisher: Unbound