Great interview. I am a huge fan of those themes (obviously) and really enjoyed the interview. I hope you get to do more interviews and share them with us.

Thanks for this David, a very interesting read :)

Very fun look into a designer's mind! Thanks!

Really great... I could read such interviews all day. It's a pitty it's so short.

I remember having the white mech. I wish I still had all those previous pieces! Great interview....great designer!

Very interesting. I remember those sets well.

Great interview! Thanks for taking the time to post this, very helpful and inspiring!

Thanks to both of you for this cool interview. It's always great to get an insider look into the design process of LEGO. After reading this the 1st time I immediately went to flickr and added him as a contact. Thanks again! :-))

Thank you David for this little pearl! It's always a great pleasure to know what's happening beyond the sets... Very interesting!! Thank Bjarne for us.

A fascinating insight and a wonderful surprise too! I got "The Lego Adventure Book" for Christmas, which has a bit at the end with builds by Daniel August Krenz, who designed the original yellow castle and wrote the 6000 "Ideas Book" with the story of the couple who go into space.

Very neat!

Great work on this David! Happy Christmas

Thanks David! That was a very thorough and interesting interview! Now I just have to finish my 3rd alt. model... Thanks again! :)

Fantastic! Thanks a lot for the interview, it's very revealing. Maybe you should offer it to some of the blogs, too. Merry Christmas!

Great idea, Dude! Very interesting and informative!

This is a great interview. I remember getting the Alienator as a child like it was yesterday. But I had forgotten just how awesome the alternate builds were. I think I'm going to have to track down another box.

This was nice... thanks David! I agree with the piece limit pushing one's creativity. I'm currently working on something that I had a list of extras that I thought I needed inorder to complete the build... then I just decided to ditch the list and make-do with what I had and I cameup with something which, in my opionion, is much more appealling and better! Cheers! :)

Beyond awesome .... I just loved reading through the interview, especially the part about the alternate builds. And thats also excatly how i feel, having a limited amount of parts pushes ones creativity. Im not sure we are gonna get to be part of the contest, since we already before it started had begun on building a classic space diorama, but time will tell. Anyhow, great take on putting more dimension into the Classic Space contest. This will be remembered for years as EPIC .... Thanks for posting this on MOCpages. You were my hero before now you are almost holy !! :D ... And merry christmas to you and your family . :)

great idea, cool interview!

Fascinating. Many thanks to both you and Bjarne.

I purchased close to near all of his sets! His designs were instrumental in my adolescence and how I explored my mind. The "B" sets, oddly enough, were always more interesting to me aesthetically. He also hit on the most frightening part of creativity: What do you make when every possible medium is at your fingertips. This concept has devastated many artists and glorified the elite who have the capacity to simplify to the elemental building blocks of their particular medium (as seen here on MOCpages.) I want to thank Mr. Tveskov for honing my ability to "turn off my brain without turning off my brain." And thank you to The Davids for the interview and contest. Genious on so many levels!!!

Nice interview. I talked to Bjarne last year as I was searching alternetives for a design education. If You google his name You find another big interview, that also contains his own background and how he got the dream job at lego. He also has a flickr account where he has uploaded pictures of many sets he was designing. Thanks for sharing and the time it took to get in touch with him, a real pleasure:-)

I had a dark period, a period sans Lego, I'd moved out from the parental home and my Lego hadn't. The 6876 alienator was the set that put me back on the straight and narrow. I loved it then and it still looks good now, I believe the screen in my classic space pocket money contest entry was from this very set. It's great to read the interview with the man who I guess was my guiding light.

There was already an interview of B.Tveskov available but you've come with completely different questions and this is very, very interesting ! I don't want to be mean but I could gave ten Mark Stafford designs for only one by this gentleman. A true legend (I remember the shock when I first saw the 87 catalog with the monorail, and later the Alienator, I've bought two of them !) Thanks a lot Dave for this great interview ! And obviously thanks to Bjarne too :-)

I did not read the whole thing, But I enjoyed seeing the CS sets. I love the hardsuit/mech photo.

thanks David for sharing this ! interesting ;-)

I know this interview. This guy also developed the great sets like the Blacktron renegade, the SP I mission commander and the futuron monorail. This guy dont know, how much he was involved in so many childhoods.... :D

Cool! I remember some of these Blacktron sets, never had them but always wanted them. The interview was a fascinating read too. Merry Christmas to you and yours David :D

Great interview, thanks for taking the time and sharing!

a job that I wish I had.