Another LEGO fan has been hired as a professional designer by the LEGO Group
An active member of the LEGO fan community has been hired by the LEGO Group to become a professional product designer.
There are a lot of ways for members of the LEGO community to show off their creative building skills, from getting their set made through LEGO Ideas or the BrickLink Designer Program to sharing builds on fan-run competitions. Employees of the LEGO Group have openly said that they engage in these spaces and have been known on more than one occasion already this year to hire from those pools, as with Thomas Lajon and Sokoda – and it’s happened again.
Dominique Boeynaems, a member of the LEGO community who won the Iron Forge competition this year, has announced he will be starting as a Product Designer at the LEGO Group in September.
“While I’ve not been part of the online LEGO community for very long, I have spent most of my life with and around LEGO, and this is quite literally a dream come true,” he wrote on Instagram. “This has been something I have wanted to do and have been steadily working towards, since the very day I realised that there was someone at the other end, actually creating all these sets I’ve spent my entire youth playing with.”
“I’m so excited for this next step in my journey with the LEGO Group, that started with a simple yet rewarding retail job in our local LEGO store, and I can’t wait to see a set that I design on the shelves, some years(?) in the future, and to help inspire a new generation of kids, as so many of us were once inspired.”
It being a ‘dream come true’ is something that is likely echoed by LEGO fans and builders all over the world. Those already working at the LEGO Group have said before that they’re always excited to see fan designers come on board.
“We’re very fortunate to have some of those designers working in the company,” said LEGO Ideas Designer Ollie Gregory in a media roundtable earlier this year. “It’s so great that they’re here and we’re able to use them as resources to do some really crazy things.”
“I’m always impressed when I go to a fan event and see someone that you’ve never seen before create this incredible build or function – maybe someone that’s 13 years old, and they’ve built this incredible model,” agreed LEGO Ideas Design Manager Jordan Scott. “That’s where I get a lot of inspiration, because they’re still so young and doing this already. I can’t wait to see what you can do, if you continue on this path.”
So if you’ve always dreamed of becoming a LEGO designer, don’t waste any time and get stuck into the fan communities. You never where it might take you.
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