Beautiful LEGO Author: Visit Amazon's Mike Doyle Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1593275080 | Format: EPUB
Beautiful LEGO Description
From Publishers Weekly
Legos have been a building block of childhoods around the world for decades (the Danish company, the Lego Group, was founded in 1949), but as graphic designer Doyle demonstrates in this impressive collection of 360 Lego models, they're far from child's play. The book showcases the work of 77 artists, who offer a wildly divergent results: from portraits of Freddie Mercury and the monsters from Alien to dissected frogs, space stations, and chromed-out hot rods. Though Doyle humbly waits until the middle of the book to showcase a few of his own sculptures, they are among the most striking. His stark black-and-white renderings of an elegant Victorian house damaged by an uprooted tree, as well as the book's cover (a massive futuristic city with countless spires) are nothing short of breathtaking. Brief bios of the creators accompany each entry, with the artists discussing what drew them to Lego bricks and their approach to design. One featured artist, Jordan Schwartz, may have achieved the ultimate goal: landing a job at Lego as a product designer due in part to his creations. Surprisingly, the book doesn't include specifications such as the dimensions of the pieces or the number of bricks used, nor are there images of works-in-progress. If readers can forgive that, they will be mesmerized by this astonishing collection. Full-color illus. (Nov.)
Review
"A stunning array."
—Today.com
"LEGO! It really doesn’t get any better than this."
—Wired.com, Raw File
"One man’s quest to prove LEGO can be art."
—The Los Angeles Times
"Delightful."
—The San Francisco Chronicle
"A stunning new book proves the versatile LEGO blocks aren't just kids' stuff."
—Reader’s Digest
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- Paperback: 280 pages
- Publisher: No Starch Press (September 30, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1593275080
- ISBN-13: 978-1593275082
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.1 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
The rising popularity of LEGO as an art form is emphatically punctuated in Mike Doyle's book, Beautiful LEGO. Whereas the title seems to obviously declare what's inside, once you crack the pages and take a look, you'll wonder how Doyle kept his title so simple. This book is spectacular and should be more adequately titled, "267 pages of stunning, crisp, high resolution, full color photos of LEGO creations that will blow you away." Even the back cover and fold-over dust jacket are packed with artfully arranged high res. images, rather than busy words. This book is definitely destined to become the de rigueur of coffee table LEGO books [and may shove a few modern art books out of the way as well.]
Beautiful LEGO takes you on a jaw-dropping photo journey of the creations of around 70 different LEGO artists from around the world, including brief interviews with about a dozen of them. The LEGO creations depicted in the book range in size from Doyle's 200,000 piece, Contact-- the fantasy city featured on the cover-- down to 10 piece birds and snails with amazing character. Unlike other LEGO books where the photography and resolution are secondary, every image in this book appears to consist of a well-lit, clutter-free, high res. images destined for the Smithsonian. Many images are so clear you can see the airtight seams between even the smallest of bricks.
Among the strengths of this book is that Doyle does not linger on any particular LEGO artist, building style or motif for more than a few pages. The upside to this is that the reader gets a wide-ranging view of the amazing capabilities of the artist and their bricks, but the downside is that you may crave more.
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