Legorific: LEGO Creations That Will Make You Brick Yourself

posted on 4th August 2010 by David Darnes with the tags: "Artwork", "Lego" .

In 1949 a piece of plastic was released into the world that revolutionized the way we play and interact with toys. The LEGO brick has been with us for over 60 years and despite its ever expanding range of bits and pieces the design for the humble brick hasn’t changed since its conception.

This post is all about what people have done with LEGO, either with clever ideas and photography or by building models that are way beyond that little LEGO pirate ship you had as a kid. Take a look below, and try not to fall to pieces!

Take a look at this great book: “The LEGO Book“.

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Smoke

Poster style piece by Alex Eylar.

Nighthawks in Space

LEGO imitating art this time with Alex Eylar again.

Inception

Another by Alex Eylar, but had to be mentioned due to Inception recently being released.

Ghostbusters

Fantastic ongoing project by Angus MacLane called CubeDudes, the collection of characters and celebs is amazing.

MacLanes Workshop

More from MacLane, this time him working on a Buzz Lightyear Dude! I strongly suggest checking out his Flickr stream and check out his limited edition Star Wars Pack from this years Comic Con.

I Find Your Lack of Face… Disturbing

Can’t have LEGO without Star Wars mentioned nowadays. Fun diorama by Chris McVeigh.

Facebook

Very witty one by Chris McVeigh.

Plastic Bag

This is in a much different style to a typical ‘builders’ work.

Check, please!

This cute series of pictures are by Christoph Niemann.

James Mays LEGO Home

It had to be mentioned, amazing piece of engineering and a great episode. I highly recommend you watch it.

Dispatchwork

Brilliant idea from Jan Vormann. Dispatchwork is an on going project to use LEGO to fill in the gaps in walls and structures that have suffered from ware and tare. The project has now gone worldwide and there’s a site that tracks all their ‘Dispatchwork’, Dispatchwork Site.

I Don’t Hate You

Are you still there?

Pencil

No need to sharpen, just break a piece off!

Johnny 5

Johnny 5 is alive… in LEGO.

Hulk

Worthy of any comic book figurine collection.

Skull earrings

By default any girl wearing these has got my attention. Note that these and the Hulk piece use mainly normal LEGO bricks and don’t use mini-figure pieces, which is typical of any MiniLand figure from LEGOLand. Both the earrings and the Hulk figure were created by ex-LEGO Master Model Designer Mariann Asanuma. She now works freelance as a LEGO Artist.

Little Green Man

We come in pieces.

Circle Triangle Square

Another piece of work by a professional, this time its Nathan Sawaya who specializes in large 3D forms and to scale replicas of celebrities.

Dog

Sean Kennedy is also a Pro builder but he mainly works on mosaic artwork.

Google

Amazing Google logo that wasn’t made from normal bricks but from all those odd pieces you get in LEGO.

Some bald guy

Just some lazy bald guy that was at LEGOLand in Japan.

Roses

They will last forever and won’t need water.

Now this is just a small slither of a slice of the work thats out there in LEGO form at the minute. I just hope this has inspired you to seek out more or create something yourself. There are a handful of excellent LEGO books, such as this one: “The LEGO Book“.

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