Recalling back through the early days of my childhood, I see only one toy and hobby that corresponds to design and has also kept up with me the longest in my life is Legos. Legos opens up a child’s mind through the concept of design, and simply gives anyone wielding it a hand to create. Legos opens up the doors and mind through a sense of having each brick and piece be attachable, with limitations of course. Each piece has to correspond to another piece, which kept my mind thinking through a sense that everything has a right piece to it. Not only that there were thousands of pieces and endless possibilities’ of creations, there were also an interface of different characters and colors.
Through legos the process of design were endless, each piece was a part of a bigger picture. Every set of course came with a designated design but what opened up my mind was being able to add and configure to that design. My first set if I recall was just a basic set of bricks from which I would construct simple pattern of designs; a red brick, to a yellow brick, to a red brick, and so on. With this object being so quantitative, my collection grew larger and larger as years came along. Following this allowed more designs and objects to be built. Legos follow the characteristics of design through the endless possibilities’ that it holds, brick by brick. In sense I see legos today as carrying the trait of “design” being an endless quest.