Leica make lovely cameras, but they’re awfully expensive…

…not this one though, now you can make your very own Lieca M3 for £1.50, courtesy of Matthew Nicholson, who makes stuff.

Brilliant!

Two of my favourite things just got it on.

Lego and Muji have paired up to make sets of blocks which use paper as well as plastic. The paper parts use a special hole punching tool which matches up with the ‘blobs’ on the lego bricks and lets you turn the colourful Danish building blocks Japanese – origami style.

A match made in heaven. Lego are really good at these brand partnership things, but I still don’t see the point of Lego Rock Band, sorry.

OK, so there isn’t a single easy answer to what designers and marketers can do which will save the planet, but I’m pretty sure this isn’t helping. I must be getting a piece of junk mail a week from Virgin Media since they put their magical cables down our street.

Other offenders are LoveFilm who constantly persist in harassing me to join even though I am already a member, and British Gas, who have sent us 3 boxes of low energy light bulbs whilst raising our bills at the same time by a staggering amount. Barclays are also so desperate for me to take out a loan with them during a time of economic meltdown, that they send me an envelope full of tripe at least once a month which I promptly tear up and recycle.

Maybe there really is no hope.

I don’t really know exactly what this is but I like it.

Globo Logos from Julien Vallée. Thanks to Afonso for the link.