When scaled up, the bricks allow for exquisite and complex constructions, becoming exact pixels in large structures. It's a huge undertaking to construct those large-scale models that you see in places like LEGOLAND. What's it like to actually spend your days knee-deep in LEGO? We spoke with Adora Lo about her work as a LEGO model designer and how she ended up working in the medium of plastic bricks.
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This is actually freaking ridiculously awesome! Think about it. If you are a LEGO Model Designer you’re basically getting paid to play with LEGOs professionally. Who wouldn’t want to be a LEGO Model Designer? In all seriousness, this is a very impressive job. Whenever I was little and would build those LEGO models I would do two things. The first was tried to build the model with out the instructions. This would always (with out fail) would not go over so well. I would end up creating something that only resembled the model that I was supposed to create. The other thing I would do is try to find something wrong in the instructions. Designing these models isn’t easy. Especially when you have stupid kids like me trying to find errors or not even following your work at all. I truly admire the time, patience and care that goes into designing LEGO models now!
I have always really loved Legos. I think it is one of the core reasons I find myself in love with playing out structures. The first set model I built was out of Legos, it was a gift for my mom. The project forced me to look at the floor plan. Being able to see it now as a designer and not as a toy is enlightening. In the video it was clear that the employee loved her job and felt like she was innovating and creating there. She started out as an architect but found that LEGOs were able to fuel her imagination just as much as architecture. I love industries who are a combination of many other set industries. I'm sure this industry needs illustrators, writers, as well as architects and engineers. There are so many people involved I'm sure when creating each project and its directions. As a kid I never really respected the directions because I always felt like they were trying to tell me what to do and how to play with my LEGOs. As I got older I found that if you followed them you could really create what was on the box! Now reading about them again has given me even more respect for the minds behind LEGOs and the influence it has had on my life.
Legos are amazing! One thing I never thought about until now was how all of the models that exist in Legoland have to be hand made. After all the math is done, there still has to be someone accurately building these designs brick for brick, and everything has to line up. Honestly, I could easily see myself going into this a job field like this. The amount of thought and mathematics that would need to go into a structure to make it stable and appear as it needs to is immense and sounds like a lot of fun. Also, what's nice about reading the article, is that it makes a job like this seem very plausible. Jobs as interesting as these don't seem to get as much media coverage when it comes to practical things like how to get the job. It's nice to see the practical side of interesting jobs like these.
LEGO has always been a big part of my life, playing with them as a kid helped me express my creativity and has surely helped influence me to pursue a career in design. Being a Lego designer must be one of the coolest jobs in the world. Of course it is essentially just model building but with uniform constructed brick units, but the versatility the Lego systems has makes the possibilities endless. Tapping into that everyday and working with model builders to create huge intricate displays sounds like an amazing day at the office. The most interesting thing I found in this article is that the woman being interviewed said she uses Rhino to 3D model her designs before modeling them. While I always figured their would be a rendering process I always just kind of imagined those amazing Lego creations coming together after the designer spends hours just building, so I’ve often overlooked the planning stage. It was also interesting to hear her talk about how math based her work really is. It’s not all just fun hands on construction but also a through understanding of the materials and how they interlock that go into the consideration of those awesome Lego models.
Growing up I always played with legos. When I was real little it started with lego duplo. I remember really pushing for my parents to get me the real legos and learn to create the fancy models of realistic building I had seen people online. When my parents didn't want to spend another decade of their lives walking around on plastic nails they declined. Luckily lego started making video games and that is really when I say the true power of lego. The idea that a simple brick could be used to create worlds based off of movie franchises and really allow me to immerse myself into the world blew me away. I find it so much more fascinating to learn about how much math goes into calculating the physical building they create with lego. And it only makes sense that math and art have their own place in the world since she brought up the fact that things that worked out in her computer program didn't always work out in the physical world.
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