The Women’s Brick Initiative is excited to introduce a new way to learn more about our community members. We love how supportive the WBI community is and we think there are some members doing amazing things that we don’t know a lot about. Our goal is to create a close-knit… Continue reading
WBI hosted a social during virtual BrickCon recently. We had a great time! But we figured we don’t need a convention to have a virtual social hour, so we’re having one this weekend: Date: Saturday, October 17, 2020 Time: 7:00 p.m. Pacific (Los Angeles) time Where: Zoom! If you’re interested… Continue reading
By Stephanie Taylor Editor’s note: Thanks to some terrific input from the AFOL community, it’s been brought to our attention that some of the data presented here may be incomplete. We’re reviewing that data and will change as needed, and then republish. In mid 2018, for the 40th anniversary of… Continue reading
After an incredibly busy summer, our interns are back off to school (virtually). We’re now almost ready to start sharing everything that we’ve been working on for the last few months. In the coming weeks and months, these are just some of the topics you’ll see covered right here. Our… Continue reading
Thanks to our partnership with Smith College, WBI is pleased to share that we have five interns this summer! Have you ever wondered how many minifig heads are female? And of those, how many are yellow? How many women of colour have been represented in minfig form? How many different… Continue reading
At the Holiday Ornament building meet-up in December we decided that we wanted to have some kind of group build presence at Bricks Cascade. The next thing we knew, Nyssa Rogers sent Alice an email with the Duck Build instructions attached. Our solution had been found! Immediately the word was… Continue reading
Another Bricks Cascade Women’s Brick Initiative workshop is in the bag! 25+attendees explored micro building, adding lights, creating new charms and talking all kinds of photography. Once again the three hours passed quickly as we shared information and made new connections. Before we broke into smaller groups Alice shared a… Continue reading
Periodically Richard Jones at The Rambling Brick takes an in-depth look at gender balance in LEGO City. We love his analysis so much we use Richards work in our WBI presentations! So when Richard reached out this week and told me he had updated his research in anticipation of International… Continue reading
Bricks Cascade is right around the corner and we are super excited to be debuting this years workshop theme – Lighting. Last year we introduced you to us and our areas of expertise. This year we are going to get down and dirty and learn a new skill – how… Continue reading
We’re super happy to show off our new, redesigned logos! These new logos, while similar to our earlier logo, differ slightly ago reflect our clarified mission. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do! We are preparing cool merchandise graced with these logos. Come find us at Bricks… Continue reading