I don't know what I expected when I requested this title--I saw the word Lego and reacted--but it wan't this whimsical collection of photos.

This fabulous book aims to spark everyday playfulness by reimagining scenes, everyday life and everyday objects. There aren't instructions/guides - it is a photo and imagery book.

This was a such a fun book! I loved it. I am such a Lego ADDICT and seeing the bricks set up this was was so fun and unique.

Visually appealing and inspiring. I liked the many different settings and categories covered in visual art. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher Quarto for my digital review copy.

This would be awesome for a Maker's Space station. Have kids recreate the pictures or create their own. Super cool.

LEGO Still Life with Bricks by Lydia Ortiz is a cool book full of lego arrangements to admire. It's really cool seeing what people made. It's a nice book to just look at and relax. It won't tell you how to make them, but they are good instagram-worthy photos. You could try to recreate them if you're super creative!

Three out of five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for a free copy of this book that was given in exchange of an honest review.

Very brightly colored, Instagram-y photographs.
The photography is amazing, the actual artwork is not so mind-blowing, lacks finesse in several pictures. I applaud the intention, execution lacks a bit.

Filled with the most creative images I’ve ever seen. Love the detail of the specific lego pieces and the bright colors.

This would make a great coffee table book. A great gift for photography lovers who also love LEGO. This isn't a book of extravagant LEGO builds. It is a book of still life photography with LEGO worked into the photos. We see breakfast with eggs made out of LEGO, or a toothbrush with LEGO toothpaste. I love the LEGO gum that is stuck to a real life running shoe. The colours are bright and the photos are fun.

I give this a 4 out of 5 stars!

It offers a moderately creative project, using small LEGO pieces displayed in various contexts. I was personally interested in the combination of materials and the results were fine, which means I just needed to refer to some home surroundings to figure out how to create my own project. From the visual point of view, the book is equally entincing. A recommended book to anyone looking to some out-of-the book ideas but not too far away from the frame. A pleasant entertainment for both children and adults.

A great coffee table book for all ages! Such a great little book filled with lego art that will inspire adults as well as kids, basically if you love lego, grew up with lego, play with lego, here's a great book that you can put on display or gift to a fellow lego lover!

This art photography book is a colorful, delightful collection of photographs that recreate food and everyday objects using LEGO bricks. The photos are charming, and some are "action shots" with changes between two photos creating a story.

This book would be a wonderful coffee table book or gift for fans of still life or LEGO. Both children and adults alike will enjoy the creativity behind each photo.

Don't get me wrong, I love LEGOs and this is exactly the type of book I would flip through at the bookstore and look for construction ideas or inspiration.  But this is not really a book about LEGOs or something to inspire your Sunday LEGO construction projects. This is more of an interpretive art piece using LEGO as a medium. Some of the projects were very clever but others were slightly amateurish. Fun read to imagine projects with a younger child though. The bouquet of flowers was visually stunning and I liked the creativity of the petri dish. Visually the melted ice cream and gum on the shoe were really awesome.

This was a great book! It was super creative and every picture had me studying to see all the details. Legos are really fun to play with and it was wonderful to see them being made up as real items. I'm just impressed with the level and attention of detail.

What do you do when a box full of LEGOs shows up at your office door? You pull them out and start creating, of course! That is the premise behind LEGO Still Life with Bricks: The Art of Everyday Play, only to a whole new degree.

In this collection of photographs, Lydia Ortiz (with some help from Michelle Clair) takes LEGOs and begins to playfully work them into real-life situations. They're funny, they're cute, and they're certainly unique.

This isn't your typical LEGO creations. There are no LEGO masterpieces here. Instead, these pieces all merge with other objects, having the LEGOs stand in for the real world in truly clever, and sometimes hilarious, ways.

The collection is every bit as whimsical and fun as you might imagine. The photographs themselves are bold, simple, and surprisingly elegant. Between that and the colors of the backgrounds, the whimsy really does feel enhanced, almost like a story is being told throughout the pages.

This is such a fun and clever coffee table book for any brick lover! The scenes were pure art, very cleverly done and just gorgeous to look at.

At first I ask, Why? But quickly that changed to Why not? This is so cool! The Lego creations in Lego Still Life with Bricks: The Art of Everyday Play are not what you typically expect from Lego. Designer/illustrators Lydia Ortiz and Michelle Clair took buckets of Lego bricks, combined them with everyday objects, and created some pretty intriguing images.

As you would expect from the title, the selections are still life per the classic art tradition. Per Wikipedia, "depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.)" Examples of many of those are included in Still Life with Bricks. Obviously, since these are kids building toys we are talking about, there is a tongue-in-cheek element.

I love the colorful, creative designs, especially the ones that show a sequence, like popping a balloon. I especially like the series that depicts striking a match, lighting candles, then snuffing the candles and the smoke wafting away. So cool and creative!

Some of the images use just a handful of bricks. Other, hundreds. Thousands?

The effect reminds me of a movie where the live action shots morph into animation.

These images, photographed by Patrick Rafanan are fun to look at, and it's fun to imagine what you might do if you had thousands of Lego bricks laying around!



Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the complimentary electronic review copy!

A stunning collection of unique and colorful photography featuring impressive compositions made almost entirely of LEGO bricks. This imaginative book made my brick-loving heart so happy!

This is such a creative project. To turn Lego pieces into art and to make ordinary things, fosters creativity and makes Lego builds manageable. This book can be used to help others recognize the art all around them. There were pictures that had Lego pieces I have never seen before; yet others had the simplest pieces but made a perfect representation of it’s model. The concept of the book really appealed to me, but like most books it left me wanting more. I suppose though, it is time to get the Legos out and heed the invitation for me to look around and create art.

Anyone who loves LEGO will like this book. Great creative pictures of plain things in life. This is a book for kids and grownups. Art exists in many forms and this is one of them. Great book for the table.