Looks cool, but I can't see how it would cost so much to build them. I'll just go to home depot and buy some wood to do it myself.

I'll add this to my list of overly priced toys I need to buy when I get obscenely rich. Cool as hell but 1500 bucks for 10 blocks? I'd rather take up carpentry, that way I can sell one piece of awesome furniture for 1500 bucks and buy these.

yea, the price is ridiculous. Don't see why one wouldn't just go to their local carpenter and order one made. The design is simple as hell.

I also am gawking at the price. I could make the same shelves for much, much cheaper.

Actually, I might actually get behind that idea. This is awesome..

What if you suck at Tetris?

The idea is nice, although not my kind of furniture at all.
Totally, amazingly overpriced (IKEA would probably sell every element at no more than €15 each).
I'm just wondering.. it doesn't look really stable at all. One bump with an elbow and off the entire library goes.

@Vidunder: Yeah, the building block setup is suspicious. And the price is ridiculous--$150-200 per block? What the fuck kind of wood are they using?

It still looks pretty cool, though.

Sorta cool. I'd like to see a book shelf that has the pac-man layout...there wouldn't be tons of places where you could put books down without bookends, but it'd be pretty sweet.

Hideous. Absolutely hideous. Looks like robot puke.

This thing is freaking me out. It looks like a real-life Escher painting. Good thing I came down from that Peyote a couple hours ago, or I'd be in a lot of trouble right now.

@gigantor21: Wood taken from the very heart of the world's most endangered species of tree, infused with an alloy made of gold dust and the souls of every developer that tried to make a "BETTER" Tetris.

That kinda wood.

Hmm, looks tacky with all the nails showing. Perhaps a thick coat of paint or laminate would make it look cleaner.

Wayyyyy too expensive. The idea is cool, though.

Shouldn't they have disappeared?

I agree with everyone here. if i DID have that kind of money, I sure as hell wouldn't be spending it on ugly tetris shelves. i mean, look at that grey.
its death.

Nope. Not even close

Let's just build our own. Much cheaper, and when it falls apart because our lack of carpenter skills, we'll still have enough money to build a few more.

What the hell would you put in one of those L shaped holes?

@thefais:
I would set the L in horizontal and put books.

@thefais: The letter L, of course.

@thefais:
My L shaped tetris block stuffie.

@thefais: L shaped books, duh!

As for those magnificent shelves, I'm going to agree with everybody on the whole DIY thing.

Looks nice; could use some minor improvements to polish up the quality; but most important, it will be a pain to clean...

@thefais: Oh, and also my cat.

i was waiting for some enterprising individuals to take this idea and make $$ off it. But those prices are absolutely disgusting. Everyone interested please look to this how to link to make them yourself. At worst, pay a friend who might be knowledgeable with woodworking to build them for you. You will still save a metric ton of $

[www.instructables.com]

Earthquake prone homes beware!

I can't help but wonder who they're aiming for with this. Gamers probably wouldn't have the money, and if they did they'd rather spend it on games.

Anyway, I sucked at woodshop, but I could easily do this myself if I had a saw. Come up with the measurements, saw a straight line, nail at a right angle, and sell at ridiculously high prices. The hardest part by far would be finding someone stupid enough to buy it.

Pretty expensive, as many have stated. I like the look, except for the clean wood. I would rather have the entire segments a certain color, the clean face would makes it look tacky.

DON'T MAKE A STRAIGHT LINE YOU WILL LOSE ALL UR STUFF!!!

@Witzbold: Well, I guess I'm out by default, then.

I'm gonna make a own version of this when I get a wall!
*starting on blueprint*

@Raziel3333:

xD

Yeah its a nice idea but like others have said you could probably build it yourself for half that. But if I did this I'd have to take a few creative liberties and make an entertainment center instead.

Hey! That's go nicely with my new pixel couch when I become a millionaire and can afford such things. Of course, to become that millionaire I'll probably spend the next 30 or so years of my life working my ass off, completely forgetting about video games in the process. So I'll set up a reminder for this.

Great idea. Terrible execution.

Colors = barf

DIY FTW

@Erwin: then you will have shelves that go all the way up to the ceiling REAL quick!

@Tiger-Fever: or just learn some actual skills and DIY

We have a set of the "L" shaped blocks holding our CDs and some DS games. I picked them up after I had seen them at the ICFF about three years ago.
There's never been much of a cross demographic between your average college student bullshitting in GameStop about DMC4 and the MoMa-going industrial designer here. My designer girlfriend scoffs at how I'll drop one hundred dollars on a custom fighting stick but is more than willing to spend a grand at DWR or Kartel.
On the design side, if you want the real engineering that it takes to create a piece of minimalist furniture that is designed to last for a century, buy it from the designer at top dollar.
The part that I don't buy into is that good design should only be something that can be had in the homes of the wealthy elite. It doesn't have to be that way. If you want that Mies van Der Rohe day bed but don't have the $10,000 for it, I think its perfectly reasonable to buy a close approximation for a tenth of the cost.
If the quality is less and the piece falls apart, you will eventually want the real thing anyway. I think if it is a piece that you truly love and admire and you can afford the original then purchase it if it will make you happy but if you only kind of like it, or you think the price is too high then you shouldn't really have an issue with getting a similar item at a lower price or making it yourself.

That's cool, I need shelves. I'd rather save money and just built it my self then. I wonder what the dimensions are...

Those are the ugliest shelves I've ever seen. They could have at least tried to hide all the nails. It looks very amateur.

@holysocks: That'd ruin the point. Besides, fat chance I'll convince my dad to let me anywhere near his tool set. Or that I have ANY cash to spare while saving for med school.

The colors...nails...Saji does not approve

How dare they rape my childhood and current fond memories of playing tetris!

Oddly enough, every time I see a Tetris sculpture/t-shirt/homage of some sort, one of the first things that comes to mind is "wow, -someone- sucks at Tetris".

id be afraid to build anything with tetris blocks.what if when i complete it a line disappears and i have to rebuy the missign parts.thats too much of a hassle.

gizmodo had this up last year in response to the same product
[gizmodo.com]

@Erwin: If you have $1500 to buy Tetris shelves, I'm sure you can hire someone who IS good at Tetris to arrange them for you, haha.

This same item would have been reduced by 50% if made/manufactured/produced at some boonies in Montana.

I remember either joystiq or gizmondo had an instruction to build your own which cost around 100 dollars and looked exactly the same sans the paint job.

They look pretty cool. but as many before me have stated, I'd rather do it myself. It seems like the perfect do-it-yourself project. no curves or anything. hmmm..I might actually attempt this.

@BryanGuitarDude: same

@stephenzerotwo:
Thanks for the link. It rules. That is now on my list of things to eventually do.

Great, now I'll have nightmares of endlessly putting together furniture only to have it disappear. And if for some reason the furniture reaches the ceiling, I die.