Codex xcix hat eine illustrierte Geschichte des Lego-Verpackungsdesigns zusammengestellt, die leider Ende der 70er endet. Immerhin ist mein Oldtimer dabei (Set 395 von 1976), die Speichenräder hatte ich erst neulich beim Aufräumen in der Hand. Über das Bild oben:
"This is the 1958 box for Lego set 700/5.1 It shows three children so absorbed in play that they couldn’t even bother to look up at the camera. The children weren’t models but Lego’s managing director Godtfred Kirk Christiansen’s daughters Hanne (l) (who tragically died in an auto accident in 1968) and Gunhild (now Gunhild Johansen) as well as his son Kjeld (future owner of the company and heir to the Lego fortune) ..." Lego – A Natural History of Package Design(via Coudal)
