Hello And Welcome To The Ninth Day. Of Grindmas.
(If You Missed Days Seven And Eight, You Can Check Them Out Here.)
I hope everyone is settling in nicely to the Friday evening. I know I am. I’m gonna start today with the And More! and then talk about the Four LEGO Scenes.
The other day I shared some designs for baby and toddler clothes with something of an architectural angle. I got some great feedback from readers (thank you, readers!) and have updated some of the designs.
So if you have a baby to outfit anytime soon, the Hustle Architect has you covered!
Last weekend I shared some architecture and design book recommendations, but it occurs to me that they were all geared toward older readers. Suppose there’s a small kiddo in your life who needs to learn the alphabet before they can handle architecture history books.1 I have a delightful recommendation for exactly this situation: Lora Teagarden’s The Little Architect’s Alphabet.
Share your love of architecture with the young ones in your life, all while learning the ABCs. (I’m also just totally charmed by the notion of a toddler walking around identifying quoins. We can all make this vision a reality together.) Read more about the book here.
Now let’s talk Four LEGO Scenes.
Using a free software package called Bricklink Studio, I have put together four vignettes from the world of The Hustle Architect. It’s a fairly simple drag and drop interface with a lot of features for generating parts lists and instruction sets. Plus there’s a simple rendering engine built in. Not fundamentally all that different from Revit, but a bit more stable and intuitive.
Check out the galleries below for more renderings.
Some of the figures pictured are part of the Hustle Architect extended universe and will have fuller character development at a later date. But that’s not so important right now and shouldn’t lessen the enjoyment of perusing some renderings of bricks.
“Hey Mr. Grind, are these sets for sale anywhere?”
Not exactly, but hold that thought. While the LEGO resale market is robust, there’s not a one-click way to do this, at least not without me doing a bunch of redesigning and ordering in bulk. But there are sites like Bricklink that host user-created models and parts lists and all that. I’m going to be looking into this over the next few weeks and if/when I’m able to get something set up that works to my liking I’ll share that info here in the newsletter.
In the meantime, I encourage you all to tinker around (physically or digitally) with some designs of your own. That’s always more fun anyway!
Have a great night and I’ll see you all again tomorrow with three more things.
Play well,
THA
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