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3D artist and motion designer JR Schmidt reconstructs New York City in LEGO using an assortment of maps and satellite imagery to set the elevation and color of the blocks. Best thing since Christoph Niemann’s I LEGO NY.
Dr. Strangelove in stop-motion LEGO
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The history of LEGO, in a short animated film to celebrate the beloved toy’s 80th anniversary. Also see The Cult of LEGO.
The Olympic Park recreated in LEGO by brickmeister Warren Elsmore.
Pixar’s 22 rules of storytelling, adapted in LEGO.
The language of infographics, explained in LEGO by lawyer-turned designer Karyn Rossen – a whole new level to the cult of LEGO.
Even a child can see something is wrong in our toy stores. The gender gap…does more than tell [a little girl] which toys are socially appropriate for her to play with, it separates her from a whole realm of experience - masculinity. As [she] grows older and decides what sort of person she wants to be, she will encounter this gap again and again. While crossing the gender gap is not impossible, it is difficult and doing so risks stigma and ostracism, just ask the boy who dressed up as Daphne or the girl with the Star Wars water bottle. The gender gap is evident in nearly every aspect of our society, but one of the first and most striking examples is toy choice.
David Pickett offers a sweeping historical background on the LEGO gender gap – a must-read.
The latest episode of PBS’s excellent Off Book series explores LEGO art. Previous episodes have explored typography, product design, art in the age of the internet, book art and papercraft, generative art, the explosion of animated GIFs, and the art of film and TV title design.
Also see The Cult of LEGO.
An early LEGO patent drawing circa 1958, the building block of a global cult.
Hello Impossible by artist Andreas Ekberg, a kind of Möbius strip in LEGO.
