Behind the scenes at The Brick Brothers
by Shopify on June 25, 2011
On the eve of launching the business we thought we'd take a moment to tell you a bit about how the mosaics get made. It's part high tech, part precise manual labor.
Once a photo from a customer arrives we use the computer to reduce the number of colors to six shades of gray. Then create a grid of squares, one color per. There's a bit of experimenting at this stage as we try different ways of representing the colors in the image for the best mosaic. When we're satisfied we print out the grid and a line-by-line inventory of the pieces needed (as a way to double-check that we eyeball the colors correctly.)
Then the real work begins. Using our stock of 1x1 bricks we snap things into place. It's a lot like color-by-numbers. Then we package it up and ship it to you!
Here's an example of us creating a mosaic of our little sister. Our Brick Sis, you could say.
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