Beautiful LEGO®
Published on 13. October 2013
280 pages
978-1-59327-544-0 (ISBN)
Description
Mix hundreds of thousands of LEGO bricks with dozens of artists, and what do you get? Beautiful LEGO, a compendium of LEGO artwork that showcases a stunning array of pieces ranging from incredibly lifelike replicas of everyday objects and famous monuments to imaginative renderings of spaceships, mansions, and mythical creatures.
You'll also meet the minds behind the art. Interviews with the artists take you inside the creative process that turns simple, plastic bricks into remarkable LEGO masterpieces.
You'll also meet the minds behind the art. Interviews with the artists take you inside the creative process that turns simple, plastic bricks into remarkable LEGO masterpieces.
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Mike Doyle is an internationally acclaimed LEGO artist and known for his stunningly realistic, grand-scale designs. His award-winning Abandoned House series has been showcased at Gallery1988 in LA and Boston's Museum of Realist Art. His largest piece to date is Contact I?a 6×6-foot masterwork built from more than 200,000 LEGO elements. When not constructing LEGO art, Doyle works as a graphic designer. He lives with his wife and two children in New Jersey.
Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Ramón and Amador Alfaro Marcilla
- Mmmmm
- Everyday Wonderful
- Attic Treasures
- Jordan Schwartz
- CubeDudesT
- Go Ask Alice
- Nathan Sawaya
- Monsters, Aliens, and Creatures
- Tweets
- Plastic Menagerie
- Mike Nieves
- Quite the Character
- All Dolled Up
- Arthur Gugick
- Mike Doyle
- Urban Planning
- Nannan Zhang
- Mosaics
- On the Road
- Lino Martins
- Mecha
- The Final Frontier
- Striders
- MicroBots
- Meta
- Bad Days
- Iain Heath
- Pythonscape
- Faraway Lands
- Contributors
