This is such an amazing book! The idea is so simple, but the result is fantastic. All the different lego creations are a joy to look at for everyone who likes lego (don’t we al?!) or just fun and original art in general.

I can’t even choose which one of the images is my favorite. The coffee? The toothbrushes that made me giggle? The cute looking plants? Or the amazing highlighter? The pictures are all amazing.

This would be a great coffee table book for Lego lovers... and who doesn't like Legos? It was fun to flip through the pages to see how the Lego pieces were used or incorporated to create an image (some more simplistic). The book is quick to go through as there are no words- just images, so sit back, relax, and take yourself back to your childhood.

I really liked this book, you tend to just think of LEGO being bricks or sculptures/models and this one showed that they can be so much more!

I liked the use of the bricks to create the photos and I can imagine the designers and photographers having loads of fun working on this book.

Ideal read and gift for the LEGO fans out there! It is 5 stars from me for this one!

Thank you to the publisher for giving me a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

I really loved this. I think we can all remember playing with LEGO regardless of age. And I absolutely still love LEGO and can't wait to have a kid that will also play with LEGO (Hopefully)
This book was absolutely overdosing on creativity and it was just so fun to read about. It was so creative and sometimes I had to double look just to notice that the thing I was looking at was all LEGO. And sometimes there was that small detail that made it all so much more impressive. (For instance the candle page)

I would definitely recommend this book!

Review to come September 8th on Blog/Goodreads.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

I just LOVE LOVE Lego, love building it, love looking at builds people make, love buying new sets. So this book just made me very happy and hyped. I was eager to see what kind of things would would see in this book.

This book combines daily items (or scenes) with legoblocks. We see a breakfast with baconstrips made of lego, a big cup of orange-lego-block-juice, we see paintcans and paint, there is jam on a toast. There were some really great photographs there, like the feet in the sand with lego as water/surf. It was really fun seeing normal items be combined with lego and form a pretty awesome picture. I also liked seeing before/after like with the balloons, first there are three, then there is a needle and there is just two balloons left.

But I have to say that there were parts that I had to look really hard to find what was made out of lego or it felt like it was just mostly normal stuff and not much lego, and I think that was a shame. And others were just, in my eyes, not that special. Like the picnic... it is that I know that ants come to picnics, otherwise I would have wondered what the hell it was meant to be.

My favourite out of this book would be seeing the plant grow, but I was also fan of the cocktails and the ice cream.

All in all, I had fun reading this one and I wouldn't mind more books like this one.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this book in exchange for an honest review.
My husband and I are fans of Legos so this book easily caught my attention. This is a fun and colorful book of still life. I thought more of the pictures would be of items built with Legos but there was definitely some creativity in what was built. Overall, this is a cool book for kids and adults who have grown up with Legos.

Anyone who loves LEGO®, photography or just plain enjoys looking at the magnificent colours will surely love this book! I couldn't believe how life-like some of the LEGO® pieces were and how beautiful the photographs came out. This is definitely an art form.

This would make an amazing coffee table book. Who hasn't heard of LEGO®!? This would be cool to have in the house and would make a great, fun conversation starter. Both my boys (30 and 36 now) loved it as kids and would love this book as it brings back happy memories. I still have some of their LEGO® and DUPLO® from when they were babies. I would recommend this to any and all age groups. My favourite photos are of make-up, the bouquet of flowers and the painting pallet.

My only niggle is about the ARC copy...it has a watermark on EVERY SINGLE PHOTO and it made it hard to enjoy them as much as I could have.

**I received an e-ARC from NetGalley for an honest review**

The book is up front with what it is about- it's a book of photos of legos.

What is art to one person isn't always art to another. With that being said, I've played with lego blocks, for fun, for science projects, for art projects, and even for photography projects (though my photos were never this good!) I'll probably keep playing with them until the day I die, as they make a great way to mindlessly pass the time, especially during quarantine.

My favorites were the gum on the shoe, the plants growing in stages, the flashlight, the glass of champagne, and the makeup palette.

Overall, five out of five for the beautiful photography. Perfect for little kids, or even a conversation starter book that you'd leave on a coffee table.

Some people think playing with Lego is only a children's activity
That this is absolutely not true you can discover here with me

Brightly colored still lifes of everyday scenes are shown in this book
Are they all original and beautiful? Well, let's take a look*

*Not actually a real look because photographs may not be reproduced here, but as a matter of speaking ;-)


Art exists in many forms.
Most people know the regular ones like painting, sculpture, …
But it can be really enthralling when variations on those forms are seeing the light.

In this colorful book you're immersed during 144 pages in the world of Lego.If you expect to see images with Lego-bricks stacked on top of each other, you'll be disappointed.
The approach is totally different, as in: take a lot of Lego-bricks of all imaginable colors and forms, imagine a real life situation and try to depict that scene just laying down everyday objects and Lego-bricks quite randomly. You could actually call it 'mixed media with Lego-bricks'.

Some of the results are really nice, others are rather simple.
Fact is that whether you use Lego or any other colorful material (f.e. little pieces of paper), it would almost be the same.
Taking all this in consideration, this book could appeal to some people, but others will feel like there's something missing. Especially comparing to other Lego art (see f.e. this article: https://world-of-tau.blogspot.com/2020/08/lego-art.html).

Imho the idea behind this book would come out much better if the best images (flower bouquet, pond, beach, flashlight, …) were used to illustrate a story (in rhyme?). That way the book would not only lean on the images, but on the written text as well. This would allow to create a more unified result rather than a random hodgepodge of images that sometimes have nothing to do with each other and that are not always equally original.

Conclusion: This book doesn't live entirely up to the expectations of people who search for really original Lego art, but it has a lot of potential that could come into its own with some adjustments.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for providing a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is the cutest lego book. I could see this being in the classroom for when someone finishes their work, and needs to just read while others continue working. I do not know which page is my favorite. I do like makeup and so using legos, it still looks like makeup!!

This is a fun, quirky book for lego geeks. It's interesting to see the amount of thought and detail put into each still life image and the creativity is amazing. The ability to take a format that is usually used to build 3d structures and use it to create 2d images is fascinating.

However, I lowered my rating to 3/5 as I feel this is one of those books you give as a gift, perhaps at Christmas. The kind of book you pour over once and then don't touch again until you accidentally rediscover it while rearranging your bookshelves several years later.

I enjoyed the unique premise of the book and the fun, original designs (the ramen was my favorite!). I think kids and adults will like this, it would make a great conversation piece for your coffee table!

Very funny and ingenious book. The authors are really creative and it's hard not to smile looking at many of their illustrations. It reminded me of a similar book by my favorite artist, Christoph Niemann, "I LEGO N.Y".

Thanks to the publisher, Chronicle Books, and NetGalley for the advance copy of this book.

So creative - I loved discovering all the different ways the authors used LEGO bricks. I was originally expecting that the art would only include LEGO bricks, but I was pleasantly surprised to see how well they were integrated with other everyday materials. A great book to help kids explore their creativity!

Thank you to Chronicle Books for providing an ARC on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Just a beautiful and creative book. I love legos and you will love this book. Quick read and great pictures. . I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

This is a cute, almost entirely wordless book that is geared towards anyone who love Legos. Each page displays a different still life arrangement, and even though some of these include classic building elements, other pages feature loose Lego bricks that the authors positioned into representative shapes, such as colorful balloons. The book is very simple and goes by quickly, but is a fun option for Lego fans who want to think outside of the box.

This is listed as adult nonfiction, but is completely appropriate for children. There is no objectionable content in it, and it is a fun book for all ages. Although people who want traditional building advice may find these still life set-ups too fanciful for their tastes, this creative book can inspire Lego fans to use their bricks in unconventional ways.

This is a cute art book composed of photos incorporating LEGOs in whimsical, brightly colored staged scenes with real life objects. The end section says that it came about when LEGO mailed a large box of all different shapes and colors of bricks to the publishing company and the staff got creative making up scenes with them. LEGOs are used to make things like foods on real plates with real utensils and gum stuck to a real tennis shoe. I was hoping it would give ideas for projects for my LEGO loving kids to make, but it's not that sort of book. These are just cute photos where LEGOs are in the picture in creative ways.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

My kids especially loved this book. We own tons of LEGO books and will definitely be adding a hard copy of this one to our home library.

Delightful book with colorful pictures and no words. The designer uses LEGO to create scenes such as LEGO bubblegum strings stuck to a shoe; spilled LEGO wine pieces toppling out of a wineglass; LEGO makeup palette and so on.

Great book if you love visual design or LEGO. I received a free electronic copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

While the idea behind the book is clever enough, mixing LEGO & non-LEGO objects in everyday still lifes, the execution often shows a lack of creativity. Too many of the pictures show a random collection of LEGO sorted by color grouped together to be something, say the ocean's edge or orange juice.

Since much of the delight of LEGO is the creativity in building, this book falls woefully short.