The Scaled Brick is a one-person creative practice run by Emmett from a small studio in Brunswick, Melbourne. Below, the route that led here — and the room it all happens in.
Long version: a childhood with a brick on the carpet, a degree in architecture, a chapter in game design, and a return to the bench.
I have spent most of my life with bricks somewhere within reach. They started as the most exciting thing in any room. Then they became the tool I quietly turned to whenever I wanted to think with my hands — through architecture school, through the years I spent designing games, and through the much longer years where I was, in theory, supposed to have grown out of all this.
The Scaled Brick is the result. It is a serious creative practice — original builds, a fantasy world, classes, games, commissions — that takes the brick at its full value: an honest, accessible material, capable of carrying real ideas, and played with by adults and children alike, sometimes in the same room. It is a small studio, and it would like to be a useful one.
Wherever bricks were, that was the corner of the room I was sitting in.
The training that taught me to draw a city before placing the first column — and to respect what concrete is doing to hold a building up.
A long detour through tabletop and digital game design — where I learned that a system is a kind of building, and a session is a kind of room.
Took the practice full-time. Opened the Brunswick studio. Started running classes and sessions. Began building Everplenty, brick by brick.
A small, well-lit space in Brunswick, Melbourne — built around two tables, a parts wall, and a campaign that has been running for some months now.
We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and acknowledge their continuing connection to the land on which we build, learn and play. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Visits are by appointment — see the contact page to arrange one.
If any of this resonates — book a class, drop into an open studio, join a session, commission a piece, or simply say hello. Everyone is welcome here.
