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C1. BOOK: Daniel Konstanski, The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks: The Inside Story of a Design Icon (Unbound, 2022), p. 34.

...as the company matured, a budget-management strategy was put in place that is still used to this day: frames. ... Product lines will receive a number of new element frames, colour-change frames and decoration frames. ... Some types of moulds are more expensive to make, so not all new part frames are created equal, either. Once the allocations are made, teams will sometimes trade frames both within their own groups and across departments. If an idea is especially good, a special case can be made for an extra frame or two.

'Frames' are used as a currency within the LEGO design teams to budget for new parts, existing parts in new colors, or new printed parts.