Interview: Bjarne P. Tveskov, Classic LEGO Space Designer – Boing Boing Gadgets

Boing Boing interviews Bjarne P. Tveskov, a Lego designer who created many of the classic Space sets from the 80s.  I still have all my space legos, and my kids and I regularly play with them.

bjarne_set17My LEGO career started when I was 17 years old; I saw an ad in the Sunday newspaper, they were looking for designers for the Space product line. No formal qualifications were required so just for fun I applied. They sent me a big box of LEGO bricks and asked me to create a Space model from imagination. Still got the model I made back then. (image coming later). At the interview I realized that the job was a full-time position in Billund, initially I thought that maybe it could be a freelance gig, but no. So when suddenly I was offered the job I had to ask my parents if it was OK if I quit high-school to become a Spaceship designer. They said it was fine, thinking I could always return to school later when I was done with the toy adventure. (But it never happened)

3 thoughts on “Interview: Bjarne P. Tveskov, Classic LEGO Space Designer – Boing Boing Gadgets

  1. “I could always return to school later when I was done with the toy adventure. (But it never happened)”
    I am reminded that when Aerosmith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, Tom Hamilton (the bass player) said, “Mom, my promise still holds. When I finally get this out of my system, I’ll go to college.”

  2. Awesome. I have many fond memories of putting Lego spaceships together using some very-well worn sets of instructions, all numbered, color-coded, and without words. They’re a great example for teaching solid instruction writing.

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