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Build It Yourself
Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
The LEGO company turned 50 this year.
The company that brought you the versatile mini-brick of design and delight--and entertained the young and young at heart--began in 1947 and has become a staple of play over those many years. While the brick did not take final form until it was patented in 1958, more than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been produced so far--enough to make 10 stacked columns to reach the moon.
While it is still a plaything for many, capable of being made into a number of simple constructs, it is also a molecule in the construction of other more complex concepts:
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It’s been said that Larry Page and Sergey Brin (co-founders of Google), used LEGO bricks to create an external low-cost and expandable casing for 10 4GB hard disks when they were engaged in developing the Google search engine. Nowadays, the Google college grad recruitment process has reportedly used LEGO bricks in special exercises to test the creative abilities of potential hiring candidates.
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Artist Nathan Sawaya uses LEGO bricks to make his sculptures, with a touring exhibit traveling across the United States entitled “The Art of the Brick”. His appearances with his sculptures have appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and The Colbert Report.
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Others use the toy to help …
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