LEGO Still Life with Bricks: The Art of Everyday Play

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.

LEGO Still Life with Bricks: The Art of Everyday Play is a collection of pictures of reality mixed with LEGOs.
The pictures are pretty and well done. A lot of them depict LEGO made food, and I must say, it got me hungry.
Overall, the book put a big smile on my face.
I'd recommend the book to fans of LEGO and to people that enjoy mixed-reality pictures.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for providing me with an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review.*

This has to be among the cutest books ever!!  The photos made me smile again and again.  How about a carton of Lego eggs along with two sunny side eggs in a cast iron pan?  How about Lego butter on a china butter dish?  Waffles, eggs and bacon anyone?  These are among the first delicious illustrations in this whimsical title.  Then, there are the men's ties, the necklaces, the artist's "paints" on a palette and again so much more. I guarantee that time spent with this book will cheer you up.


Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this title in exchange for an honest review.

Lego has another beautiful and inventive book about being creative beyond it's original use. I highly recommend this book for purchase. It is a perfect way for looking at creativity in a new and exciting way. Creating concepts that will captive and inspire kids.

LEGO Still Life with Bricks: The Art of Everyday Play is a book of pictures of LEGOs. The LEGOs make common items. The pictures are fantastic and very colorful. This book was unique and I enjoyed it.

Thank you NetGalley and Chronicle Books for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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.

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.

**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.

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!!

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.

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.