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The Art of LEGO Design

Creative Ways to Build Amazing Models

by Jordan Schwartz
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The most impressive LEGO models often take careful planning (and lots of pieces), but with some inspiration, a little imagination, and a number of tried-and-true techniques, you too can turn bricks into a masterpiece.In The Art of LEGO® Design, author Jordan Schwartz explores LEGO as an artistic medium. This wide-ranging collection of creative techniques will help you craft your own amazing models as you learn to see the world through the eyes of some of the greatest LEGO builders. Each concept is presented with a collection of impressive models to spark your imagination—like fantastic dragons, futuristic spaceships, expressive characters, and elaborate dioramas.
You’ll discover some of the inventive techniques that LEGO artists use to:
–Create lifelike creatures from unusual elements like inside-out tires and minifigure capes
–Design sleek cars without showing a single stud
–Add ambience to dioramas with light bricks or LEDs
–Craft eye-catching textures to create cobblestone roads and brick walls
–Build sturdy, detailed, posable mechs and other figures
–Add depth with forced perspective and interesting silhouettes
Interviews with the talented builders behind many of the book’s models reveal their thoughts on the design process and what inspires them most. Even if you’ve been building with LEGO since you could crawl, you’ll find new inspiration in The Art of LEGO® Design.

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  • Release date

    June 1, 2014

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781593275938

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      September 15, 2014
      Combining a history of Lego, interviews with prominent Lego builders and ideas for bringing models to the next level of inventiveness, this book will speak both to readers who are just starting out and to those looking to refine their skills. From descriptions of scale and the uses of many of the Lego elements to discussions of patterns, textures and composition, Schwartz takes the usual themes for Lego models-figures, buildings, vehicles, animals, robots and mechs, and spacecraft-and shows readers how to build(!) on those ideas. The format makes this accessible to a wide age range: Photos of amazing models will pique younger readers' interest and have them reading the fine print (and wishing the margins between the columns were bigger) to figure out how to replicate them (though there are no building instructions). Meanwhile, older readers will be engrossed in the interviews and descriptions of how to create shapes that accurately reflect reality, something that can sometimes be difficult with the blocky plastic bricks. A few standouts include the SNOT building technique-Studs Not On Top-making mosaics with cheese-slope bricks (don't miss the stained-glass windows made using this technique) and photography techniques for capturing models for posterity. From where to buy those elements you just gotta have to where to go to find inspiration, Schwartz has included it all, and Lego fans will want this close to hand as both inspiration and guide for their next builds. (Nonfiction. 9 & up)

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  • OverDrive Read

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  • English

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