By Liz Stinson | Curbed
Bricks—wood-fired pieces of clay that sit between layers of mortar—have been around since the early days of human-made architecture. Despite that, they still feel like a modern and limitless material. In 2018, though, an “improvement” on the brick was bound to happen, and now it has.
Brixels™, as the name suggests, combines brick and pixels. Created by the design studio Breakfast, Brixels are vaguely brick-like pieces of material that are controlled via software.