Marcel Winatschek

Brick by Brick

Someone on Tumblr’s been rebuilding album covers out of LEGO. Nirvana. Pink Floyd. The Beatles. Daft Punk. Kanye. MF Doom. All of them in plastic bricks. Sounds dumb until you see it—album covers are already built in layers and blocks and flat color. LEGO just translates the same thing.

The work is meticulous. You can tell someone spent hours getting the proportions right, matching colors as close as the palette allows, keeping the smiley face exact. It’s not trying to be clever or ironic. It’s just someone who respects the designs enough to rebuild them in a different medium, which is its own design practice.

Somewhere out there, someone’s spending evenings stacking plastic bricks and thinking about album covers that mattered to them. That’s the kind of thing you don’t usually see made visible.