How Brickspace started...

Here's the first of a series of posts describing the history of Brickspace in its first year of existence.

Brickspace in its current form, with its current name, has been running for a year on the 21st October, but before that it was very different.

It started in March 2008, with the creation of a blog by John called 'Best Lego... Ever!'. The first ever post was showing a Lego Star Wars Republic Cruiser made by master builders, and can be found here.

John continued to blog creations on this blog for a couple of months afterwards, but in September 2008, on one very dull weekend, he decided to completely redesign the blog into something very different. The site's layout, which had before been the simple plain-black template from Blogger, was changed to a bright, white-background layout with new graphics and a new name: 'Best Lego... Ever' became 'Best of Brickshelf', with the distinctive logo of Nathan Sawaya's yellow Lego sculpture.

John invited several of his friends to help him with the blog. These included the now-editor Luke and an American penpal of John's called Genesis. She sadly left the blog on 3rd December 2008, but Luke and others like Tim have remained and still blog from time to time.

Eventually, it was decided that the name of the blog be changed because sites like MOCpages and Flickr were much easier to navigate and contained better content than Brickshelf. And so, on 21st October, the new graphics for 'Best of Brickshelf' were finished, along with another change of name... to Brickspace!

Above is the first ever logo for Brickspace. The yellow colour of the dissolving man in the Best of Brickshelf banner was kept, and added to the new banner. The cube-and-rectangle design in the back of the banner was taken from small adverts made for Best of Brickshelf, and was quickly adopted as the graphic logo for the site. From then on, and until now, Brickspace has never changed its name or that graphic logo.


The next celebration post will be coming soon!

~John