MONOREX 5TH BIRTHDAY PARTY - 21ST AUGUST @ VILLAGE UNDERGROUND

Thanks to everyone who turned out for our 5th Birthday party at the Village Underground, it was a great night with banging tunes from Session, Brett and Herse and a twisted visual show from us Monorex boys!

It was really refreshing to get away from the "norm" that is Secret Wars and show you people what talent and skills we have in full colour and to a slightly different brief!

Think people were caning the artist named cocktails (Stika, Jimi Crayon and Disco Teck) - I know I knocked back 8 or so Disco Tecks (Redbull Cola and Jaigermeister).

Watch out for more wild and visual parties like these!

The Monorex x Disco Teck "cut out" wall commission... Great fun was had with this!

Danny the magnificent magician! got some sick tricks..

The Nintendo WII went down a storm - people were squablling over the remotes to have a go - make note we will be doing more of this (live gaming) in the near future.

DJ Session

Alfa and his new tattoo

The new Monorex branded wall also went down well and we got some wicked portrait shots!

A few snaps of the gallery show we put on featuring some top artists! Inkie, CHU, Jimi Crayon, Disco Teck, Alfa, Zadok, Stika and more...

Thanks to all the Monorex team for grafting and making this happen and to our sponsors Redbull, Tiger and Edding!

MONOREX & EDDING ARE SHORTLISTED FOR 3 ARTS & BUSINESS AWARDS

QUOTE FROM SITE
"The 31st Arts & Business Awards celebrate and showcase the best examples of cultural partnerships and sponsorships across the UK."

Monorex & Edding have been shortlisted for 3 out of 6 awards on offer at this years 31st Arts & Business awards ceremony... This is in recognition to the hard work put in by Edding UK and Monorex on the Secret Wars project.

Looks like I will be needing to rent a Tuxedo as the crowd don't look like the average streetwear crowd ;)

Keep your fingers crossed for us to win one of these prestigious awards... C'mon Monorex!

Thanks to all the hard work Andy from Edding has put into this pitch... big appreciation!

SECRET WARS X HAVANA CLUB - REPORT

Things got messy last week down at Village Underground! In a Secret Wars special in collaboration with Havana club and edding UK - Monorex took on Intercity collective on the biggest Secret Wars wall ever built (40ft wide by 16ft high)!

The Monorex team was made up of Stika, Teck, Jimi Crayon, Mr K and Alfa - They came with a loose plan in mind, easiest way to explain would be to say they drew a Cuban party in a old skool Cadillac.

Not only was this event the biggest wall on record but the guys at Secret Wars hq also allowed a small amount of colour to help express the Cuban vibes! Probably never to be seen again at any Secret Wars event....

For all those that were lucky enough to get in and sip on free Havana cocktails (big up), and a HUGE sorry to those peeps that did not get in (RSVP AND GET THERE SOONER NEXT TIME).

Thanks to everyone that helped out and a massive thanks to WIGHT PRESERVATION for building the wall.

Big up to Havana for backing this crazy concept and edding uk for supplying us our battle markers!

Photos by Philip Gabriel - http://www.phiga.de/

SECRET WARS X HAVANA CLUB

Head to the one off art battle at Village Underground for a fast and furious creative experience like no other. Sponsored by Havana Club, the live art battle will last for 100 minutes and pitch two teams of acclaimed artists against each other in a bid to produce the freshest and most exciting wall mural.

Art battle at Village Underground
Celebrating street art and Cuban culture in a creative and original style, the art battle at Village Underground is a combined effort between the Secret War crew and Cuban rum giant Havana Club. Using only coloured (first coloured SW battle) acrylics and edding special markers on a 200 foot white wall, two teams of artists will compete against each other to produce the most creative and cutting edge wall mural.

Audience participation
The results of the art battle at Village Underground will be judged by a panel of experts. The audience will also have a big say in which team emerges as victorious, as the crowd vote will be measured using a decibel reader. The wall mural will then be displayed at Village Underground from Thursday 5th March - Tuesday 10th March alongside key pieces from the 100 Pieces of Havana exhibition.



WANNA COME ALONG?
The art battle at Village Underground takes place on Wednesday 4th March 2009. Entrance is free but space is limited. For more information and to get a place on the guest list.

contact Emma Buxton on - 0207 426 0616

Markers supplied by

SECRET WARS BRUM X EDDING VIRAL!

Loving this video made by the boys up in Brum - Edited and produced by Trav and Theo (Insequence media)..


Edding pen promotional video from Trav on Vimeo.

Edding design brief - Calling all artists!

So here is the brief for the new edding ‘Art Series’ Design Competition…

Task: Creation of an edding art series label and packaging design
edding wants to launch a new product line with label designs based on illustration/graffiti – the new line will be called edding “art” series

In total 6 label designs are needed for a new (slim retractable) permanent marker art line and a new slim retractable highlighter art line. Additionally a packaging imprint design is needed for a pencil case (see pictures).

Final hand in date for designs: January 25th, 2009 (Digital files preferred!)

Price for Awarded Design(s)

Artist: 1000 € per design: To include a permanent marker and/or highlighter label and a pencil case label

Organisation: 500€ (per design) in edding products (products of organisations choice)

The Products: Slim Retractable Marker and Highlighter

• Retractable Permanent Marker(4 colours of ink planed: black, dark blue, red, green)
  
• Retractable Highlighter(4 colours of ink planed: yellow, green, orange, light blue)

Here are the PDF’s…Thanks to Very Nearly Almost magazine for the links! :)

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art5_highlighter

and here is the brief in full…

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Get to it!

Cop yourself an Edding "Special Marker"...

The lovely guys @ edding UK have been so kind to produce our battle pens for the last 3 years - These pens are called the "special markers" and are hand made for SW only (not for retail)...

But after recieving lots of email and feedback at events, they have decided to test the market and sell a small batch of 32...The price = £8 (inc postage) or £7 from a London Secret Wars event.

They are juicy and fresh! if you want one please get in touch below ASAP as I am certain they will fly off the shelf.

All orders will be posted to your door.

To buy a pen email - shop@monorex.com