Cherno Samba CM 01/02 Infographic

It seems my connection to #ChampionshipManager continues 18 odd years after it began with an illustration of #Champman wonderkid/legend @cherno_samba! - an article by Dave Black @cm9798 for @rowzonline .

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Design Sketching: ‘Pill Dispenser’

From the archive: This account has been suffering design wise I thought I might start posting my #designsketches, #graphicdesign #scamps and #UX #wireframe WIPs alongside my studio mate Paul Leon (behance.net/u037)

Richie Tenenbaum (Luke Wilson) - From Wes Anderson's "The Royal Tenenbaums" Day 1 of #inktober2018

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Richie Tenenbaum (Luke Wilson) - From Wes Anderson's "The Royal Tenenbaums"
Day 1 of #inktober2018 (yeah I'm always fashionably late to the party) I think its safe to say that i'll be on a more dysfunctional schedule to everyone else. So i'll be leaning into that theme and drawing #WesAndersonmovies #inktober #inktober2018

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The Queen of Soul. Aretha Franklin.

A quick tribute to - The Queen of Soul. Aretha Franklin. 
The body may no longer be with us but her spirit lives on through memory & the music. Her HUGE voice lit even the darkest of rooms. Could get even the hardest of men to break out and sing the chorus to THINK! A voice that demand and deserved #Respect! 
#ArethaFranklin #RIP

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"It's a summer thing!"

A little cover art for the guy who provides the soundtrack to the summer over here at Monkeys Vs Robots Studios, DJ Tom Waine!  - His latest #Soulful House mix features tracks by: 

Hardage, Gil Scott-heron, Boris Dlugosch, Purple Disco Machine, Karen Harding, Sophie Lloyd, Dames Brown, Nova Fronteira, Robert Owens & Groove Assassin and more.

Hit the link, feel the summer - www.mixcloud.com/thomas-waine/its-a-summer-thing

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"Spider-man of Paris"

Quick doodle of the - Spider-man of Paris - Woke up yesterday to the news of heroic rescue in Paris. An astounding video of a Malian migrant literally climbing 4 floors on the outside of a building to save a young child hanging from a balcony. Amazing scenes! Proof true heroes come from all walks of life! 

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"Runway Gas Mask" collection available for print

As requested I've made the "Runway Gas Mask" collection available for print on my Society6 page. Thanks and enjoy! - 

Click the image or the link to shop: https://society6.com/monkeysvsrobots/collection

Click the image or the link to shop: https://society6.com/monkeysvsrobots/collection

'RUNWAY GAS MASK'   

As smog masks become a major necessity in China’s large cities, so increases the desire for masks that are both effective and stylish.

Enter the gas mask for fashionistas. This active-information respirator ensures wearers are protected at all times whilst becoming a staple in their modern wardrobe.

The device incorporates a particle detection system which allows the user to directly monitor the surrounding air quality using their smartphone. Additionally, the smart app provides real-time data degradation and quality of the filter.

Go here to see the images in the Illustration section of the site: 

http://www.monkeysvsrobots.co.uk/vs-illustration/#/runway-gas-mask/

Homage to the typeface Frutiger and its creator Adrian Frutiger - May 24, 1928 – September 10, 2015

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Adrian Frutiger

Adrian Frutiger was born on May 24th, 1928, in Unterseen Switzerland. He was a typesetter’s apprentice from 1944 to 1948 at the printing press Otto Schlaefli AG in Interlaken. He attended the Kunstgewerbeschule (College of Technical Arts) in Zurich for three years. In 1952, he moved to Paris and became the artistic director of the type foundry Deberny & Peignot. After 10 years of successful work, he left the foundry to open a studio for graphic arts together with Andre Gürtler and Bruno Pfäffli in Arcueil near Paris.

Aside from the large number of his now world famous typefaces, he has also created signets, logos, corporate typefaces and corporate identities for various publishers and industrial enterprises. For the airport in Paris Orly and the Paris Metro he conceived new lettering systems and he created a new information system for the Charles de Gaulle airport. And whoever drives on a highway through Switzerland will constantly be confronted with his type as well.

Adrian Frutiger was a lecturer for ten years at the Ecole Estienne and for eight years at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, both in Paris. In addition, he has given numerous seminars around the world. From 1963 to 1981, he was responsible for the design and adaptation of typewriter and composer fonts at the IBM World Fair. Plus, his computer type OCR B for automatic reading became a worldwide standard in 1973. (OCR-B is a monospace font developed for Monotype by following the European Computer Manufacturer's Association standard. Its function was to facilitate the optical character recognition operations by specific electronic devices.)

In 1968, Frutiger became an official advisor for D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt, Germany, and therefore also for its successor companies such as Mergenthaler, Linotype, Linotype-Hell and today the Heidelberg subsidiary, Linotype, Bad Homburg, for which he has been an active type designer for over thirty years. In this time, such timeless typefaces have been created like Centennial, Versailles, Frutiger, Avenir, Vectora, Univers and many more.

Frutiger

Frutiger is a sans-serif typeface by the Swiss type designer Frutiger. It was commissioned in 1968 by the newly built Charles de Gaulle International Airport at Roissy, France, which needed a new directional sign system. Instead of using one of his previously designed typefaces like Univers, Frutiger chose to design a new one. The new typeface, originally called Roissy, was completed in 1975 and installed at the airport the same year.

Frutiger's goal was to create a sans-serif typeface with the rationality and cleanliness of Univers but the organic and proportional aspects of Gill Sans. The result is that Frutiger is a distinctive and legible typeface. The letter properties were suited to the needs of Charles de Gaulle: a modern appearance and legibility at various angles, sizes, and distances. Ascenders and descenders are very prominent…..apparently

What do you use Frutiger for?

 The availability of many variants and weights as well as its excellent legibility make Frutiger a very versatile font. It can be used for anything that needs a distinct and clean or modern look.

Some major uses of Frutiger are in the corporate identity of Raytheon, O2, the British Royal Navy, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Conservative Party of Canada, the Banco Bradesco in Brazil, and the Finnish Defence Forces, and on road signs in Switzerland. The typeface has also been used across the public transport network in Oslo, Norway, since the 1980s.

Even after such a long run in the game, Adrian Frutiger continues shaping the world of typography.

Currently residing in Bern, Switzerland at the age of really old, he has been keeping himself busy with collaborative work. With the evergrowing importance of digitization, Frutiger has revisited some of his old typefaces through collaboration to fit them for display on a screen.

VS Secret 7's charity CD submission

UNDERWORLD: BORN SLIPPY NUXX

Here's my failed submission for this years Secret 7's charity CD event. The talent on show was immense both those that made it those that didn't. As always I learnt a lot. Bring on next 2016!

VS Business Cards

Shiny new Monkeys Vs Robots business cards from the lovely people at @MOO just in time for my visit to @Shillington_. I'll be rubbish but a least the cards look the part!

MAKE GOOD ART by Neil Gaiman

MAKE GOOD ART by Neil Gaiman - Maybe one of the most creatively inspiring words you’ll hear ever or at least today!

If you are in any sort of artistic or creative field, or you aspire to be, you absolutely need to watch this!

Obviously you to NEED to watch the video, but thought I’d highlight some of his thoughts and comments that resonated with me the most.

There’s no need to introduce Neil Gaiman, you know who he is, and about the most amazing worlds he creates, (and if you don’t know, you need to get to know!) but in May he did something even more important, he gave back. Cause he’s a very nice man.

During an address to the University of the Arts Class of 2012, he not only explained what it was to be and live as a creative, and provided solid and invaluable advice for artists or any kind of creative, to be used at any stage in their life and career — but particularly when starting out - he also inspired, explaining how all that was needed was the desire to create to get you to your goals and achieve your dreams. These are my top 10 thoughts:

1.       Don’t put so much weight into training. Neil never went to Uni!

2.       If you have an idea of what you want to make, what you were put here to do, then just go and do that

3.       Approach your creativity with joy, or else it becomes work. (I’m trying!)

4.       Enjoy your work and your small victories; don’t get swept up into the next thing before being fully present with the joys of this one.

5.       Embrace the fear of failure. Make peace with the Impostor Syndrome and the Fraud Police when it comes with success. Don’t be afraid of being wrong. (I’ll try to remember this when it hopefully happens)

6.       The problems of failure are hard. – “The problems of failure are problems of discouragement, of hopelessness, of hunger. You want everything to happen and you want it now, and things go wrong”.

7.       “The problems of success can be harder, because nobody warns you about them”

8.       “Make your art, tell your story, find your voice — even if you begin by copying others. - The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that’s not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we’ve sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can”.

9.       “Make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for you being here”.

10.   “Make good art”.

“Make good art.

I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn’t matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art.

Make it on the good days too.”

Thanks Neil!

The full keynote text can be found here http://www.uarts.edu/neil-gaiman-keynote-address