You may have seen this before, perhaps we are just late to the party, again, but there’s true genius at work here so you need to be aware.

The Lego George Best pictured above is not part of a collection of football icons replicated in plastic brick form, but a representation of the Wedding Present’s exceptional 1987 album ’George Best’.  This is taken from a wonderful collection of Lego album covers by Cologne based artist Christoph! Here are a few more of our favourites (see if you can spot which current German international replaces a 1970's cult hero)…

Check out the full set on Flickr…