My name is Jason Allemann, and together with my partner Kristal, we design and build custom models using construction bricks. This website, along with our YouTube channel, is a way for us to share our models, explain how they work, and hopefully inspire other builders to design their own amazing creations.

Over the years, we’ve had some pretty exciting experiences related to our work. Highlights include being involved with two successful LEGO Ideas projects (21305 Maze and 21315 Pop-Up Book), having Adam Savage build a copy of our Sisyphus model in one of his ‘One Day Builds’ videos, and displaying some of our models in the masterpiece gallery of the LEGO House.

Thousands of people all over the world have built copies of our models using the instructions we have provided, and some of our models and videos have even ‘gone viral’, becoming popular outside of the LEGO fan community.

It has been a very rewarding journey, and you can read a little bit about how we got here below. If you would like to help support the work that we do, you can explore different ways of doing that on the Support page.

The Early Years

I have loved building with LEGO bricks for as long as I can remember. I have fond memories as a child of digging through containers of basic bricks, flying around the moon with my Classic Space sets, and designing intricate Technic models. The early Technic sets blew my young and impressionable mind, and perhaps that’s one reason I’m still so interested in building mechanical creations today.

In my teenage years, I would often use LEGO bricks as the medium for school science and engineering projects, and thanks to my younger brother, I still had an excuse to purchase sets, as gifts of course, to play with.

The Dark Ages

As a young adult, there were many other distractions in life. I still had an interest in LEGO, even buying a few sets to put on my desk at work, but I wasn’t really too involved with building for the 10 years from my late teens to late twenties.

Rediscovery

In 1999 LEGO obtained the Star Wars license. I still remember the excitement of seeing, buying and building the very first LEGO X-Wing set 7140. It wasn’t long before all of the Star Wars sets were on display in my living room.

In that same year, LEGO released the first version of their Mindstorms programmable robotics system, and as a software developer, I couldn’t resist picking it up and tinkering with it.

Between the Star Wars and Mindstorms sets, I slowly began my transition from casual LEGO builder to full blown AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO).

Over the next ten years, my interest in the hobby evolved quite a bit, from collecting and building sets of all themes, to creating LEGO stop motion videos with my friend Deane, to designing my own custom models.

JK Brickworks

Along the way I met my partner Kristal, and she also started building some amazing models. Up to that point, I had been building using the handle of ‘True Dimensions’, which was the umbrella under which I presented all of my personal creative pursuits.

In 2014, I decided a new ‘brand’ was in order for my LEGO work, and set about to come up with a name that better represented the idea of building with bricks. Kristal had only just started showing an interest in building at that point, but was already a critical part of my life, so JK Brickworks was born.

Through it all I have been continually struck with how amazing the LEGO system is as a medium for building anything you can imagine. It allows people of all ages to enjoy the challenge of bringing their ideas to life, and exercise their visualization and problem solving skills along the way.