Designer insight: Joel Baker

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Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

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Joel Baker wrote this about their work on 10307 Eiffel Tower:

Final design done by the clever architect turned designer Rok Kobe. I am very impressed with the way Rok was able to make it feasible as a set and minimie the use of technic for the structure, I had doubts that it was even possible.

Nico Vas and I built this in one week and had a great time working on it. We had a few late nights, barely made our deadline, and if not for Alice Geiger jumping in to help out, we might not have finished on time. We had to carefully carry the original sketch model a long ways to present it. In the middle of that walk, we realized that we hadn't taken a single photo yet and if anything went wrong we would have to rebuild from memory. Thankfully it arrived safely and Rok took care of the rest.


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Looking over the sets designed by Joel Baker it can reasonably be stated that he leans into whimsy and full use of his imagination.

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