Sci-Fi Lego Decals

The foundations for this project began a few years ago when I purchased Lego set #75212, also known as the Kessel Run Millenium Falcon. The set was a fun build but I was taken aback by the sticker designs and the color details: instead of the traditional tan or grey, this version of the iconic ship had pristine white control panels on bright yellow tiles, creating an air of cleanliness and newness that was not part of the ship’s original aesthetic. Once Bricklink dropped their Part Designer program, I decided to make a side project out of digitizing the stickers. To that end, I created the following three designs, each of which is more or less a 1:1 copy of a sticker present in the set:

The following decal is partially copied from an existing sticker, but I remixed/reworked some portions to be more legible and cohesive (the original sticker, being printed at such a small scale, lost some sharpness in the details).

The following decals are completely original, since by this point I had become familiar with the design language and felt confident in being able to produce original designs based on that system. The text used below is the Kyber Crystal Display font.

Finally, I used a lot of reference images to create these larger display screens, each of which went through several iterations before I was satisfied with my designs.

The biggest challenge when designing these screens was keeping in mind their intended resolution and not making details too fine. Lego bricks are very small and these prints had to read well at that small scale. I’d often find myself with a line weight that was too thin or two colors that blended together, and I would have to adjust accordingly. It was a great design exercise, and I’m already planning more creations utilizing these decals and more.