Interesting feature on Physical Fiction‘s process of creating images with lego plates.

Basically they’re using the flat-surfaced top plates of lego tiles as a sort of movable type for pixel art, with the pixel size corresponding to one individual ‘bump’ of lego. This is a great idea, and makes me think it would be a wonderful thing to scale up so that the pixels took on a closer level of detail when the view saw the completed piece. The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, indeed! There are of course easier ways to get the work done, but the simplicity of the solution here is both wonderful from a geeky point of view and kind of accessible.