Mouths Wide Open

Images to humor you while we work.

all images taken by Jay.

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p.s
Andy is always pulling those odd faces.

Monorex Music Monday

Howdy Folks (do people in real life say that or is it only the movies) The last time i listened to this guy above he had just released his debut 'Jam' which was then followed up with 'This Charming Man' both were great projects, but then i sort of lost track of him dunno why cos his new work is great. Andy has been playing his 'Lovers Holiday' ep for some time and its really really really dope, but andy just showed me his new single called 'We Even Try' with some women called 'Sara Quin' who is apparently a big deal. I did say Andy in this post too much i need to stop that.

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John Michael Biscuit x Lafayette

Some of the team have just got back from Dublin, Ireland after painting a new cafe/bar called Lafayette in the city center. Not your typical brief - artists Jimi Crayon and Stika were asked to produce Jean Micheal Basquit inspired art throughout the venue. To be given the freedom to paint excessivly infusing both Basquits work and the artists original style was a rare opportunity indeed - But a job well met. A few days later, walls, canvases and toilets all done!

Club opens tomorrow, but in the meantime here are some production photos. If your around Dublin go check it out..

Monorex Music Monday

It's 1970 and Curtis Mayfield takes time away from his group (the impressions) to record his debut solo project 'curtis'. This album is great each track delivers a story, backed by drums and trumpets. Curtis Mayfield sings in a falsetto that later became the basis of numerous Hip-Hop tracks in the future. From the 17 tracks on this album 7 of them have been sampled, from Kanye West to N.W.A, from N.W.A to E.P.M.D, from E.P.M.D to Lil Wayne, from Lil Wayne to Redman. by now you must get my point. This album is important, his voice is important, across his whole career his voice was sampled 153 times....just amazing.
Curtis Mayfield – Curtis!(spotify)
Curtis Mayfield - The Makings of You

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5 Pointz in Danger!

Back in 2009 when Secret Wars was hitting New York properly for the first time some of the boys took a day off and went to paint at the legendary 5 Pointz in Queens. Amazing place!

Unfortunately some redevelopment tycoon now wants to turn the entire area into a shopping centre!?
A good time to make a stand. Please go HERE and sign the petition!

Some mobile phone pixkz..


Good times! Let's help MeresOne & Co.

Monorex Music Monday

Gonna keep it short today, if you like what you heard last week click the image above and download 'The Weeknd' mixtape if not move along nothing to see here.

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You know you're a designer when...

So I just found this website called 'you know you're a designer when' and the above three images pretty much some up my life. The funniest thing online tells you how it is.
Visit: http://youreadesignerwhen.tumblr.com/

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p.s I need to go and re-think my life

Finally

The new buzzer is here finally, and we have new neighbours RJDJ they make really dope apps check em out.

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Converse Visuals

As you may or may not know we recently did a big campaign with Converse that spanned across the whole country. Here are some new videos showcasing the process that went into just some of the walls. Props to 'La Furnte' on the video and shout out to Big Balls (the production company)


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Monorex Music Tuesday

I know nothing…..about this group that is. I clicked a couple random links and i have come across this. A song called Wicked Games by a group called The Weeknd. It's weird, it's distorted, its just sick. This could be the birth of a new era R'nB, a new genre, a new sound. It's like a mix between some early 2000's R'nB and some old portishead. Play this along with some Jame Blake, a bit of The xx, and some Toro Y Moi and you have a genre of music which has no name but an eclectic variety in sound.

Listen: The Weeknd - Wicked Games


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Monorex Music Monday

It's Monday and I'm here bearing 'Treats'. Treats is the new album by American duo Sleigh Bells and it's pretty epic to say the least. Andy has been playing this in the studio and it's great. The electric guitar, the drums, the way the vocals crash in on the track is a recipe for disaster but they somehow pulled it off. click the link and have a listen
Sleigh Bells – Treats

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Detroit adventures...

Thought I would update you on my USA travels as I have lots of stories to tell - but one of the more important ones is Detroit!

I flew over here from NYC for a short weekend and have met some great creative people, who have been the most wonderful hosts and drove me to all the hots spots within the city + taken me out to some of the coolest local hangouts....

DON'T read and believe all the "bad" "dangerous" stories you see in the news! As this city is on the up and is such an exciting blank canvas for any young or old entrepreneur / creative looking to realise their dreams...

Check this documentary out by Johnny Knoxville "Detroit Lives" - give you some good insight on the history and future plans.

Blue Thousand and One

This is great watch this in Fullscreen in HD

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Beer and Design

When you talk about packaging design, beer isn't first thing you think of. The book called Beer shows a collection of amazing beer cans from around the world all collected by John Russo's, the collection was found hidden in his basement by his step son Dan Becker and his friend Lance Wilsonand the pair photographed over all 2000 cans of Beer that dates back to 1975 All of them show what some may call a better period in Design when Illustrator and InDesign definitely weren't around. The colours, the logos, the illustrations the names all very nostalgic. Here are some of my favorites from the book. Which you can purchase Here and take a look at 163 images from the book Here. just amazing.

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- London HQ -

For those of you wondering if Monorex has moved to NYC you were wrong...well I suppose & right (we're in both!). Not all of us have packed up and moved to the big apple, to learn the art of apple juice squeezing. Our London HQ is very much alive & working very hard! Still situated bang in Shoreditch at the original "The Mission" building, all we have done is moved into a spanking new floor where we run our UK/IRE operations.

For any inquiries contact - andrew@monorex.com

The non - productive area (you get sent there if your bad or can't do the chicken dance)

Monorex Music Monday

So it's Monday and you have work that needs to be done because you put it off on the weekend. You start illustrator and open Spotify bewildered by the amount of songs . Here is what you should play.

The Tron Legacy Soundtrack is EPIC Daft Punk did a sick job. I didn't think I would ever hear them working with a full orchestra. Violins, Cello's and more instruments which I cant pronounce. Thanks to Stika this has been on repeat in the studio

Spotify Link: Daft Punk – TRON: Legacy
If you liked this you should check out the Inception Soundrack by Hanz Zimmer

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The "Influencers" Doc...

A must watch! Very inspiring stuff and a great advert for NYC..

Produced by R+I Creative
http://www.ri-creative.com/

Introducing Bafic....

Hello to the world of the World Wide Web I'm Bafic. The intern at Monorex after a debate with the boss he decided that I should write a post on things i'm looking forward to so here it goes.Bape
Its seems nobody likes Bape anymore. Ignore the fact that every rapper and his weed carrier was wearing it. Ignore the fact 'it sold, ignore the fact that Nigo apparently sold a controlling share amount (its funnny cos i started writing this on 25th january). Ignore it all and just take a look at the clothes their making. Great materials, great designs. Bape are putting their take on classic pieces like the Trench Coat, the Ma-1 jacket, M-65 Jacket, Leather Motorcycle Jackets. Its some pretty dope stuff.
Update: So they sold the 90% of the company shares for just over $2million which is pretty much a bargain. That whole situation is a bit odd. Considering last year they made $60 million Sad times but it will be interesting to see whats going to happen to Mr Bathing Ape, BBC/ICE CREAM, Bape Cafe, and all the other random Bape associated things nigo opened.

Madbury Club

I don't really want to call it an online magazine because a lot of the 'online magazines' currently around are just blogs and I don't want you to have preconception on this epic site so I will just call it something extraordinary delivering great articles and interviews on a wide range on things Clothes, Music, Film, Cars, Food there is even an article on the SNES. Great images,Great Words, Great Editorial Design .

Dels

Dels is a musician. He raps on beats that sound as if they were only available in dreams. I first came across him back in 07/08 when he released a track called 'Line after Line' the beat, the lyrics, the music video it was all very left of centre. This year he is releasing his Debut album Trumpalump, which features production from the likes of Kwes, Sampha, and Joe Goddard so you know he is in good hands. He's got a successful career ahead of him trust me. Oh and no post production went into that video. Things to check: Violina, Shapeshift rmx, and Shapeshift video Ghostpoet

Ghostpoet is another artist who is slightly left of centre, whether you call him a Rapper or a Poet he is a force to be reckoned with. I came across this guy on a blog which was written by Dels, i download his ep 'The Sound Of Stranger' and haven't looked back since. His lyrics are visuals on there own and tell great stories. His take on Tribes classic Electric Relaxation is dope. Things to check: Gone, Love Confusion, actually just download the ep 'The Sound of Strangers'

Reeps One

Extended Monorex family is dope not just for the fact that he can beatbox ‘no diggity ‘ without breaking a sweat but because he’s breaking boundaries on what we consider to be a vocal artform. To take an art that is so vocally based and to try make it visually impacting can be tough but when done correctly can produce something epic. Expect to see some great visuals dropping from him this year. Meanwhile i'll leave you with this video Reeps put up Youtube, dope if you ask me.

Watch The Throne

If all goes well we will be talking about this album in years to come. Jay-z and Kanye West. The Shot-caller who we thought was dead and gone (not literally) but returned with his 14th number 1 album and the dick/genius (as Andy put it) who just released his EPIC fifth album. I thought H.A.M was mediocre . The Baroque sounding samples were dope Lex Lugar did good on that beat, but Jay and Ye sounded Lazy straight up lazy, anyway Thats My B*tch was great, Elly Jackson on the vocals = Dope, Jay-z actually had a line about a art dealer you probably never heard of, it was dope, rappers talking about Art is a funny thing i dunno why......anyway where was i oh yeah this album will be dope. Hopefully if not Ye’s got another album coming out which probably be out late August early september. Things to Check out : Power (remix), That’s my bitch, Diamonds from Sierra Leon (remix)

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