About Brickstage
Original brick art for people who love movies
The story
Two things have had my attention since I was a kid: films, and building things with my hands. The films came first. The building came out of a plastic tub of second-hand bricks that lived in my parents' cupboard.
For years I'd finish a film and want a piece of it on my wall. Not a licensed set with the character's face printed on the box. Not a poster of artwork somebody else drew. Something I'd actually made.
So I started messing about with pixel grids, taking the shape of a moment rather than the character in it, then working out how few colours I could get away with. A fin cutting water. A hooded figure at the top of a long road. Things you clock instantly without anyone printing the title underneath.
The first one took me an evening. I hung it up and then kept catching myself looking at it for about a week, which has never once happened to me with a poster. It wasn't better because it looked better. It was better because I'd sat there and built it.
That's the whole idea, really.
Why this isn't a poster
A poster turns up finished. You put it in a frame, and that's the last thought you ever give it.
A Brickstage set turns up as sorted bricks and a numbered map. You give it an evening with your phone face down, and what ends up on the wall has an hour or two of your life inside it. When people ask about it you get to say you made it, which beats saying you bought it.
The designs are our own. We draw them here, we don't licence anything, and we don't put studio artwork on a box. They're made for adults who quote films at each other, not for a kid's bedroom.
The mission
Make brick art that's worth an evening. Original designs, honestly made, for people who take films slightly too seriously.
— Matej
Founder, Brickstage