An American graduate known as ‘Cuber College’ produces stunning mosaics using Rubik’s cubes that capture the attention of professional athletes on social media.
Dylan Sadiq said he needed something to do while taking online classes while studying biomedical engineering at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He bought several Rubik’s Cubes and the rest is history.
“As engineers, our job in school is to think up super wacky ideas and recreate those ideas in real life,” Sadiq said.
“During COVID I got frustrated that I couldn’t use my hands for projects anymore so I started projects at home and some of the things I learned in school in terms of designs and I created designs.”
Sadiq said it took him about three hours and 560 Rubik’s cubes to complete one of his creations. The recent college graduate also created time-lapse videos of each of his artworks. He then publishes them on social networks.
Sadiq has recreated several professional athletes – Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Francisco Lindor of the New York Mets, and Lebron James of the Los Angeles Lakers, to name a few.
His work has become so well-known on social media that the Canadian Football League asked Sadiq to create a mosaic of Henoc Muamba of the Toronto Argonauts.
Muamba was the most valuable player and most valuable Canadian in last year’s Gray Cup.
Sadiq said he spent tens of thousands of dollars on Rubik’s Cubes and owned more than 40,000.
“It’s now my full-time job, my full-time business,” he said.
“I am super grateful to be able to buy all my supplies to make my works.”
Sadiq presented some of his works to the athletes themselves and he says they asked him “how do you even manage that?”
A huge basketball fan, Sadiq said he would love to go through the long list of basketball greats and the complete mosaics of them.
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