Music Bearbricks

Albums that carry on as objects

Music licences work differently from film licences here. There’s no character to model, so the designs fall back on what a band actually looks like: a sleeve, a logo, a stage costume, a palette.

That makes these among the most graphically interesting figures in the range. An album cover wrapped around a three-dimensional body is a real design problem, not a transfer.

Runs usually hang on an occasion — an anniversary, a tour, a reissue — and are short accordingly.