The Secret Life of Ideas

Keeping it simple here – yet complicated at the same time! In this unique portrait I've depicted a giant LEGO minifigure head with its cranium opening up to reveal a spaceship emerging. Atop the platform is the word IDEAS being accompanied by a group of multicolor brick-head minifigures.

The overall background pattern of blue with abstract shapes was directly inspired by the 1990 LEGO publication "Idea Book", whose cover artwork contained a blue background of geometric multicolored shapes. In my original version of this model, my shapes mimicked the exact colors of the Idea Book (yellow, black, green, and red) but unfortunately clashed with the giant minifigure head and its spaceship. Hence I retooled them to be various shades of blue to be more subdued.

The spaceship emerging from the head was a last-minute idea. Originally I wanted the brick-head minifigures emerging from the head and forming a human chain to reach the word "IDEAS" on the roof. Instead I made a spaceship launching!