Colorforms: The 1951 Toy on a Billion Walls
Colorforms started in 1951 when art students Harry and Patricia Kislevitz noticed that a leftover scrap of vinyl sheeting stuck to the glossy bathroom wall of their New York apartment, no glue required. They cut the vinyl into shapes with thimbles and bottle caps, hand-assembled the first 1,000 sets as spiral-bound booklets, and sold them…