Lego artwork is a hit
When former Warwickshire College
student, Aaron Savage, first created his Lego album covers for a
college project, he could hardly have imagined that they would
prove so popular.
Last week, Aaron, from Stratford-upon-Avon,
saw his designs featured in the Metro, Sun, Guardian, Telegraph and
Daily Mail, after they were spotted by a photo agency on photo
sharing website, Flickr.
The 25 designs were created for a college
project – photography for publication – which Aaron completed as
part of his HND in Visual Communications at the Leamington
centre. They include many iconic album covers – such as
Blondie’s ‘Parallel Lines’, Madonna’s ‘True Blue’ and Bruce
Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’ – as well some newer and less
well-known choices.
'Queen: Queen II' depicted in Lego by Aaron
Savage
Aaron said: “I first created the designs for a
college project, having been inspired by other artists I had seen
recreating images using Lego. Album covers was an easy choice as I
am passionate about music and have a growing record collection.
“I spent a lot of time researching,
establishing which Lego pieces I could get hold of and which album
covers would be possible to recreate. Most of the pieces were
sourced from the Lego website or from Ebay.
I created the whole series of images in 48
hours – assembling the blocks, photographing and using Photoshop to
correct light, colours and sizes, and to merge photos where
necessary.
“My favourite image is the Elvis one, because
I feel it captures the emotion and movement of the original cover –
not easy things to reproduce with a hard medium such as Lego. A lot
of the covers are iconic but a few are from newer or less-known
genres. I wanted there to be at least one or two covers that
everyone could recognise.
“The course helped us to explore our ideas, to
develop and critique them. The tutors were really encouraging
and challenged us to get the best out of us. What I liked the
most was the freedom to be creative in the many different formats
the course offered.”
Tutor Jesse Lyons, oversaw Aaron’s original
Lego designs project. She said: “Seeing Aaron's work in the
national newspapers has been very exciting. I feel delighted
that Aaron has achieved recognition for his designs and I hope that
this will inspire him to continue creating his amazing
artwork.”
View the complete collection
of images at http://www.savagearrow.co.uk/.