Eric Harshbarger is a puzzle designer and well-known builder of large scale LEGO

Lego

Lego is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts...

 mosaics and sculptures. From around 2000 to 2006 he has been commissioned to build for television shows, magazines and other companies for promotional purposes. Some of his more notable commissions included a life-size functional desk for an employee at an unnamed company, a 12-foot Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is a puddle iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889, it has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world...

, a bust of Conan O'Brien

Conan O'Brien

Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer. Since November 2010 he has hosted Conan, a late-night talk show that airs on the American cable television station TBS....

 that appeared on the show, and a 21-colour demonstration of squaring the square

Squaring the square

Squaring the square is the problem of tiling an integral square using only other integral squares. The name was coined in a humorous analogy with squaring the circle. Squaring the square is an easy task unless additional conditions are set...

. The projects regularly require several tens of thousands of bricks, and occasionally hundreds of thousands.

Harshbarger works as a puzzle designer for the Perplex City

Perplex City

Perplex City was a long-term alternate reality game presented by Mind Candy, a London-based development team. The first "season" of the game had players looking for "The Receda Cube" , a priceless scientific and spiritual artifact to the people of a fictional metropolis known as "Perplex City",...

 alternate reality game by Mind Candy. He no longer works for Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

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Harshbarger is also a competitive Scrabble

Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works provide a list...

 player in the United States and has taught mathematics at Auburn University

Auburn University

Auburn University is a public university located in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 25,000 students and 1,200 faculty members, it is one of the largest universities in the state. Auburn was chartered on February 7, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts...

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External links

• Personal portfolio with descriptions and photos of all building projects.
• LEGO Alice from Wonderland - A life-size lego statue of Alice from Alice in Wonderland.

News stories

• Tina Baine, Do It Yourself: Build an architectural landmark for your garden - about the Eiffel Tower model.