The humble Lego brick, the toy that builds toys and the plastic seed of architects everywhere. Fifty years ago the Lego company put forward the patent for the plastic lego brick. The interlocking pieces with their stud-and-tube system was to prove ‘Toy of the Century’. Since that day 400,000,000,000 Lego elements have been made which have been incorporated into many different Lego World genres. These include Space, Knights, Pirates, Town, Oceanic and recently film theme Lego like Batman, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Harry Potter. Personally Pirate and Space Lego were my favourite types, the Pirate ship Barracuda being the ultimate boxed Lego contruction.

There is an American artist who’s medium is the nobbly brick, his name is Nathan Sawaya. He is one of only a few official Lego artists, his work is currently touring America in an show entitled ‘The Art of the Brick’.