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dECEMBER ISSUE 1 THE MONOCLE contents
8 - Words from the Editors 12 - We spill tom gutteridges ‘gutts’
SIMON gARFIELD - 46
20 - INSIGHT TO YBN
3 WORDS WITH COVEN - 48
24 - How to make a bimbo
COOKING WITH CONOR - 52
34 - DIGITAL CONSUMERIST AGE 38 - STUDENT LIFE
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LATE NIGHT AT THE v&a - 44
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TOBY HOLMES ILLUSTRATION - 56 tOMB OF THE UNKOWN CRAFTSMAN - 64
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WORDS FROM THE EDITORS Co-Chief Editor, Conor Green. First of all I would like to thank you on behalf of the whole team at The Monocle for picking up and purchasing our first (hopefully of many) issue. We realise that its so hard to walk into a WHSmith and find something to read that is worth reading but can’t also be read elsewhere. But this is our curse of being alive in the 21st Century. Nothing that we say, do or create is original any more, and you will always have that stuck up, geeky guy, with no fashion sense standing at the back of your studio shouting, “Oh, I’ve seen that before, back where im from they call that PLAGIARISM! You dirty fucking cheat”. But I do hope you dont think that. Ideally, you are the sort of people who can tell the difference between plagiarism and recycling. That is why you have the desire to read this magazine, and want to support the campagin to find new, fresh and exciting. Well at least I hope so. It is what we had in mind when starting The Monocle. The plan is to document, explain, show and tell various stories, projects and news from in and around the art and music world. But yeah, we know thats been done a million times and will be done a million times more, but we keep our level mindedness and approach things with a down to earth manor. We will never give into the consumerist and sterotypical socialistic bullshit bribes from magazines, which cant wait to tell you which has-been celebrity has eaten a slice of; her grandma’s, homemade apple pie, and gained a quater of a pound. Nor will we bow down and pay balding creeps with a camera, who think
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they run the world because they have a photography A-Level, called Paparazzi, for the latest automobile exiting vagina shot from a singer who hasnt released a album in 5 years. This development in the media has soiled social free will and is the reason 13 year old girls post pictures of themselves on Bebo, moaning about being a size 6 when they want to be a size 4. In order for people to get along better, they need to stop having their flaws pointed out to them by every magazine they pick up and every reality TV show they watch. Ultimately, people need to realise that curves are sexier than ribs, and starving for the sake of Kylie Minouge wont make them feel any better about themselves. Co-Chief Editor (but still higher than Conor) Liam Tomlin. Today it is difficult to find the magazine offering a point of view or news stories that aren’t in any other. This is what we wanted to change, we have found stories that we can guarantee you won’t be reading in any other article in any other magazine on the shelf. We have taken personal online blogs and stories then put them into print, so they can be read by a wider audience that would otherwise miss out. We focus on looking at the up and coming rather than those at the top of their game, as these are the people who will be shaping the designs of the future. We would hate to become an underdog in the world of printed news and media, but if that is what has to happen so we can continue to print the unheard or the unpopular than we are happy to do so, we hope you enjoy reading and learning about the alternative. Thank you for buying The Monocle magazine.
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Hugo Jones Illustration “Houses I’ve inhabited”
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Hugo Jones Illustration “Houses I’ve inhabited”
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Who would you like to see wearing your t-shirt? Jessica Alba, Frankie Sandford, Pixie Lott, I’m sure there are more I can’t think of... Who would you consider your target market? Probably teens to 20’s, but who ever really. My Grandad wears SYG too.
Spill your Gutts Interview
Britney Spears, Jodie Marsh, and Jordan, Snog Marry Avoid. (but really) Ew. Geez. None of those are good. Snog Jordan, Marry Britney, Avoid Jodie.
Interviewer Liam Tomlin Lauren Murphy, Vicky Heward, Conor November 15th 2011 Green, Snog Marry Avoid (BUT
Have you ever wanted to set up a clothing label? I took an hour out of his day to interview Thomas Gutteridge, the President and lead designer for “Spill your Gutts” label, this is what he had to say. What gave you the idea to start creating your own t-shirt design company? When I was 15 a couple of friends set up a clothing company and I thought it was a pretty cool idea. So I made my own. It didn’t go very well. But I carried on having a design company. And then got back into it after discovering Johnny Cupcakes. What inspires your designs? Nothing in particular, I to have a folder of images that get me inspired. Where would you like the company to go in the next 5 years? In the next 5 years? Um to be making millions, have my own shop and to have started selling products have than clothing! In an ideal future anyway.
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REAAAALLLYYY) I’m all for Liam.
As an Illustrator, who do you consider your main influence? Again there’s not really one main influence, I take influence from loads of people, I used to really love Dan Mumford’s work, cartoons like Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends. What was the inspiration behind the name Spill Your Gutts? At the time I had the name Comic Ripper, not really sure why. I decided I needed a new name that incorporated my name Gutteridge in some way. I thought Spill Your Gutts was fun, with the Gutts spelt wrong on purpose. Are there any upcoming plans for the company? We are waiting on an order for the upcoming Guest Line at the moment. It includes 4 T-Shirt designs done by 4 different artists other than me (for the first time). And then possibly releasing some American Apparel Hoodies after Christmas!
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Can we have a free t-shirt?
What is your ideal Sunday morning? Waking up late, have my Monkey Butler bring me Breakfast in Bed and then my jeans to get caught and for me to fall flat watching some Formula 1. on my face. In front of a fair few people in the middle of town. What couldn’t you be with out? Pen and Paper What equipment do you use for designing? Pencil, Pen, Paper/Sketchbook, Scanner/ How do you start a new design? Just doodle Camera, Mac, Illustrator, Wacom Bamboo in my Sketchbook and when I’ve come Tablet. up with something I like, I scan it in and Illustrate it in Illustratorrrrr. Whats your mobile number? 07720951190
What did you do last Tuesday? Last Whats your favourite chat up line? I seemed Tuesday? Ummmm I didn’t really do to of lost my number, any chance I could anything. Could have picked a better day. have yours? What advice would you give to aspiring clothing designers? Make a game plan for what you wanna do, come up with a decent name that you think works for you and possibly a theme if it helps. Save up. Work hard. Don’t expect to money over night.
What do you do in your spare time? Draw, design, Gamecube. Whats your best selling item? Probably the AmericanApparel Hoody we had, or the 3 colour way Jumpers
Whats your most embarrassing moment? Whats your favourite Pokemon? Scizor When I tried to Frog leap a bollard, only for
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who would you most like to see naked Can we have a free T-shirt? No Why not? I want money. Tom, tell us a joke? A few days after Christmas, A mother was working in the kitchen listening to her son playing with his new electric train set in the living room. She heard the train stop and her son yell “All you sons of bitches who want to get off, get the hell off now, because this is the last stop! All of you sons of bitches that are getting on, get your asses in the train cause were leaving”. The mother went in and told her son, “we don’t use that kind of language in this house.” Now I want you to go into your room for two hours. When you come out, you can play with your train, but I don’t want to hear any bad language. Two hours later, the son comes out of his room and continues playing with his train. Soon the train stopped and the mother heard the son say, “All passengers who are
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disembarking the train, please remember to take all of your belongings with you. We thank you for riding with us today and hope your ride was a pleasant one. We hope you will ride with us again soon. For those of you who are just boarding the train, we ask that you stow all of your hand luggage under the seat, remember there is no smoking except on the club car. We hope you have a pleasant and relaxing journey with us today”. “For those of you who are pissed off with the two hour delay , please see the bitch in the kitchen.” If it could be anybody in the world, who would most like to see naked? Conor. A massive thank you to Tom for setting aside the time to answer our questions for us, we have discovered alot more about Tom than we ever expected to as well as a futher understanding about how to set up
a fashion label. It is something that anyone can do using facilities easily found online such as fabric printing and website services. The “Spill your Gutts” franchise has been running for several years now and is fast drawing attention to itself, it won’t be long before we start seeing the clothing on all manner of people on the street. They have a wide range of designs and clothing to suit any style. They have a website set up spillyourgutts.com where you can order any item at cheap prices and fast delivery. The company has got alot of big plans for the next year, getting in contact with big labels to futher market and promote their clothing. We support SYG in all their future endevours and see nothing but good things for the label. It has already grown massively over the past year and will continue to do so with a large growing client base. The established illustrator Toby Holmes does a lot of the designs with Tom and has his own illustrating company THI. We talk to Toby about his work later on but it is interesting to see how both their styles have come together to create the single distinctive look to SYG’s clothing. Spill your Gutts clothing is available from their online store spillyourgutts.com and soon to be sold from retailers on the high street. - The Monocle
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Want to get into Graphic Design?
YCN are like Graphic Design agents for upcoming designers, they also do alot for students wanting to get a foot in the door or expand their CV. They offer advice and contacts for people and the most exciting part about this company, the live briefs! Companies contact YCN with a design problem or brief, and allow them to put it out onto their website for anyone to submit work for. It is a fantastic idea for all who are involved, the companies get free design work, and get to look at design solutions that they would otherwise not have seen from all manner of designers and their styles. Whilst the designers get there work put into the public view, looks great on a resume, and get real experience of professional work. They have work from huge labels contacting them, not just the smaller print or business companies but large domestic consumer companies like Marks and Spencer, Google, and Heinz. These are obviously priceless opportunities and you are wasting your time reading this article futher, get online and get experience! - The Monocle
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how to make a
bimbo Have you ever been on a dance floor of a mysteriously sticky substance soaked nightclub? Of course, we’ve all been to one, once or twice in our lives. Or if you have’nt then you’ll understand when you finally take the plunge of regret and disapointment. They are universally recognised by a distinct smell of throat, clogging dry ice and year old BO as you can actually feel other peoples sweat seeping into pours. Many of these places also have the optional feature of piss stained footprints within a 5 metre radius of the toilet doors. Anyway, these
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sort of establishments are more commonly know for their female, under 16 attendee’s. The clique of girls who will start feeling up the nearest man just to buy her a WKD and give her a bed for the night. This mental image we have of this weird society that dies every shameful morning and is born again every eventful night is the insiration for London bound photographer; Jade McrossenNethercott’s new project. We followed her around the preperation and execution of her first shoot of many, documenting and asking as we went along.
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Mcrossen-Nethercott has been studying photography, and photo-documentation a great deal of her life creating and exposing a range of concepts and ideas. This project of her’s entitled simply ‘Girls Night Out’ is one of her more humourous and light hearted ideas. We arrived behind the scenes when the preperation for this shoot had already begun. During the styling stages, McrossenNethercott kept giving the impression that she wanted to work with a model who is so far from the desired effect in normal life. In a way this would also been seen as another mockery, as it proves that any body out there, with the right (or, in most peoples
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opinion, wrong) make-up and clothing, has the potential to become a true bimbo. Kate Ashton, the model for todays shoot, is usually seen prancing around in her mothers 80’s hand me downs or charity shop purchases. Which in a contemporary world of fashion is respected as ‘charity shop chic’. This look suits Ashton and is complimented by her English pale skin and platinum hair. This is exactly what Mcrossen-Nethercott had in mind as part of the fun is to compare the difference in these people, both Ashton in normality and that of her slutty alter ego. The first stage of the preperation what the aspect many fair skinned women dread most. The fake
tan. Mcrossen-Nethercott, wanting to go all out for the comical value, suplied the make-up artist with an overly dark shade of liquid tan. Which made Ashton look as if she had been quad biking on a military assault course. No other phrase could have been uttered, as she emerged from a lengthy hour or so session of tanning up, apart from ‘Oh My God’. Stage two of this horiffic task was the styling. Mcrossen-Nethercott had to endure many embarrassing hours searching around the most out of context shops to find the perfect outfit for her models and, believe
me, she did an amazing job of it. For the shoot Ashton was sporting a tight leopard print ‘dress’that barely covered her female reproductive organs. It was unbelieveable that she was already looking the part and the make up artist hadn’t even finished with her. Next came the tricky bit, the facial make over. Although, im afraid to say, im a male, and my knowledge of the ins and outs of make-up and how it is applied goes completely over my head. But penciled in eyebrows, fake eye lashes and pale pink lipstick - well, you get the idea, it was horrendous. It was clear that to begin
“The anticipation of the perfect body; bigger boobs, fake tan, size zero.”
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with that Ashton found it uncomfortable being made over like this, but towards the end she made peace with it and started to enjoy it. So, with the make-over done there was only a little bit of time for a few beers, to settle the anxiety, and for the rest of the team to get their hysterics over and done with before it was time to leave. Walking down to the bus stop at 4:00pm was very eventful, as every human being with a penis started checking our bimbo out, from head to toe and then bringing the focus back up and fixating on her arse. They were’nt even doing it subtly, they were literally looking at her as if she was from a television show or out of a magazine, even to the extent that a man nearly fell off of his bike. This made us keel over with laughter, but this is the exact reaction that Mcrossen-Nethercott wanted to achieve. We finally got to the studio and whilst setting up we managed to ask Mcrossen-Nethercott a few questions to give us a even deeper understanding of what the concept was all about. Hello Jade, obviously we have a breif understanding about what you are trying to do here, but what was your train of thought when thinking up the concept? “There is such strong influence of the media among the younger generation and the anticipation of the perfect body; bigger boobs, fake tan, size zero, it is this desire that is creating a generation of people uncomfortable with themselves and their bodies. I want to watch my own generation, observing the behaviours of my contemporaries. I am interested in looking into how we perceive ourselves and how we perceive others, looking into the masquerade of ‘fakery’ in which is so present in our contemporary culture; the tan, the boobs, the nails, the clothes. Does dressing like this change who we are, how we act and how we are treated and looked at by others. It’s this notion I am going to explore for this project.” Ahh I see, and where did you get this stereotyped image of a, quote-unquote, bimbo? “Looking into the media portrayal of women i.e. programs like The Only Way is Essex, Big Brother, Snog Marry Avoid and Hollyoaks for example all of which contain suggestive imagery of the perfect women; being made up perfectly, fake tan, big boobs, tight clothing etc.” I noticed that just before we left you asked Kate to take a few ‘selfshots’ of herself in the mirror. I know real bimbo’s do this just before they go out, but why was this important to your project?
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“i LOVE BEING A BIMBO -Kate Ashton
“I have started to think about Facebook and social networking and the ways we communicate and portray ourselves in our contemporary culture. Choosing a Facebook profile picture is a very serious business, it is the image that will greet school contemporaries, jealous exes and so on. The image you project is entirely determined by your photo choice. We use the social networking site, to remember birthdays to stalk exes and so called friends and keep up to date with peoples goings on. I’ve known friends that ‘stalk’ par say peoples Facebook images, dissing people calling them fat and ugly, and pointing out flaws in other people, but I am unsure why people do such things, insecurities? Boredom?” So you know people like this? What do you think they get out of posting that sort of shit on social networking sites? I’ve recently been greatly interested in a certain couple on my friends list on Facebook, whom of which are constantly uploading images for the whole world to see of them, looking happy and in love. But for an insider, I know that they are not all as they may seem in their portrayal of their images. Is this a mask they have put on to the world, to make them happy? To make people envious of their situation? You’ve mention ‘fakery’ and ‘mask’ a few times, what do you mean by this? I am going to explore the idea of a mask – will the ‘bimbo’ aesthetic of fake tan, nails, make up and unfamiliar clothing make me a more confident person, as seen across my contemporaries and within my culture. How will people see me differently, and will people treat me differently? For this series of work I am going to create a series of work that delves into these notions of identity, self representation and the male gaze and how this makes me feel. To wrap things up, where will you be taking this project next? We will be venturing out on a ‘Girls Night Out’ dressed in our new personas, influenced by the media, our generation and the stereotype of the female in a contemporary culture; faked up, with tan, nails, exposing clothing - the works.
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After the interview, the girls got on and did the shoot. Kate Ashton took on this new persona really well and was working the camera with serveal tackily beautiful poses. The studio was well set out and effectivly run, even with me running around behind them taking photos. By just spending a single day focused on this sort of lifestyle we have learned and realised so much about this no-sosecret society I mentioned earlier. We looked past the ‘hotdog down a corridor’ stereotype and saw the emotional, pressured side of belonging to this outfit.
How the girls who spend hours and hours getting ready, only to go out and get laughed at, or tutted at by elderly women, actually feel the need to impress everyone and try so hard that they end up looking like something from a 1930’s horror movie. Its because of this emotional dedication to the cause, that these girls are in fact human beings, and as soon as we realise this we start to form a mutual respect for them. Okay, Im kidding. But we understand that after daddies credit card runs out, their only chance of survival is to marry a homosexual footballer, whos agent has
told him to swallow his pride and keep his sexuality a secret in order to keep face. Its alright though, becuase she wont care as long as her life is revolved around buying pointless shoes and make-up. At least this life of disposable consumption which would be marketed as ‘spontainious’, will keep Debinhams in the green, and keeps the world turning. The big brands praise them, and reward them by putting there name on a putrid smelling fragrance which will never, ever sell. So because of this we should bear in mind its hard, being a bimbo. - The Monocle
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Digital Consumerist age
Written by Liam Tomlin 23th november 2011
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A trip to the V & A museum or National Galleries will show you the culture of the past represented in the art at the time. It has become a increasing concern of mine that the modern art being produced by designers and artists of our generation is so focussed on showing a concept or controversial idea that it doesn’t represent our own current culture, more the individual spouts of artists going against the norm and trying to aggravate the convention. I am going to explore modern & conceptual art to find out how this work may be interpreted by future generations and what it says about our modern times to those looking back. Tracey Emin and Damien Hurst are two big names in modern art, although the level of skill involved in a lot of their work isn’t comparable with art from past generations and centuries. Our art generation are more interested in the idea being shown, and the method of how to show it comes afterwards, but what will the 22nd century of humanity
learn about our own from Tracey Emins vulgar and crude monoprints. Do they speak of our current state of mind, or has art become so “in the eye of the beholder” that future generations just won’t see it, and consider it a time when artistic skill counted for nothing and the more bizarre and outrageous you could be meant you were considered an artistic prodigy. It seems to me that the art of our current times can be interpreted by the future generations as pointless or senseless, that we may be a lost generation of artists shouting out our own opinions and interpretations of our modern world. On closer inspection of what we consider to be historical art we can see that a lot of the pieces are objects which would have been used in day to day life, such as crafted vases, or murals on walls. When we apply this concept in our own times what will be displayed in the galleries of future centuries? Mobile phones? iPods? Plasma screens? I don’t see that being quite as impressive as the renaissance paintings or Michalangelos sculptures. There are however modern artists who speak of the modern economic and social discrepancies, therefore making their work universal and
applicable to speak for the modern times. Conceptual artists such as Grayson Perry create work that we can all understand and relate to, so it will work as a representative of our generation. The street artist Banksy has amazing technical ability that his work could easily be displayed in a gallery space, and the nature of his work makes it a representative of modern interpretation. Although perhaps this is what past generations thought, and that they didn’t appreciate the design of their own era because it was just a part of day to day life, we marvel at the medieval practises of past civilizations but when thinking to the future, and the potential technology has, it is not hard to believe that our current lifestyle will seem archaic in comparison in years to come. Perhaps though, that is what some art we see in galleries today is, I know when I wander around the V&A displays of Asian armour and Egyptian monuments I am in awe at the beauty and intricate designs I discover. Our modern designs and lifestyle are about negative space and clean, crisp simplistic designs. Perhaps in a few hundred years our revelations in design & modern style could be seen as a turning point for design after the
Cubist and Bauhaus movements. In terms of advertising we have come a long way, it is the most intelligent and subtle designs that become viral and part of our modern culture. I think advertising will have a large part to play in the representation of our times in the future, it shows our current design style and speaks for our culture and lifestyle. So can we determine that in this digital age, we will not be represented by objects of our day to day lives, but by 2D print work? So can we conclude that our age will be depicted as a consumerist generation, and that our triumphs in advertising summarise our artistic flare. I personally couldn’t think of anything worse. We are an artistic generation of “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” this very statement that has allowed the birth of our conceptual style could be its downfall in future years. The work can be so cryptic that it may be misinterpreted entirely and the ideas behind the piece lost making it impractical to be used in gallery space without huge descriptions which will take from the designs. I don’t think it will be possible to predict what will be chosen to define our generations art but I think that
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if more creatively skilled artists don’t come forward we may run the risk of being filed under the digital consumerist age. For a trend that started with Marcel Duchamp, the conceptual style has come a long since a signed urinal. Despite this, when I look at Duchamps early work in comparison to the modern conceptualism, I find his work to be far more visually stimulating despite not knowing what it was he was trying to convey. Perhaps this will be the same for future viewers of current conceptulist work, and that it will be appreciated on a visual level as opposed to a conceptual one. In that respect it is sad that the work won’t be appreciated as intended but it allows the possibility that the work being done by todays artists will be moderated and the demonic scrawlings of artists like Tracey Emin (left) or the highly conceptual and confusing work of Martin Creed will be left out as it just isn’t understandable. It will make way for the skilled artists such as Banksy and Grayson Perry to take up the gallery space instead, with their own awe inspiring pieces. I do not hate conceptual art, in fact the opposite, for me it is the most interesting and diverse of all artistic movements but it is the artists who take it too far and take advantage of the styles methodology to create and display almost anything that comes to mind and put it in a Gallery space under the idea that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. I know I am not the only one who feels this way, and I think that it is the very nature of the movement that will be its downfall, I think we are due for a new artist to create a new style but I worry that conceptual art has changed the way styles move and develope throughout the world, it has allowed artists to have their own voice and be able to work in any style to say anything which defects from the past movements, where it captures the imaginations of artists or they conform to keep up with the times. I am excited to see where concept art goes in the coming future, and even more excited for how it is perceived in the galleries of the next generation. Unforunately we cannot see this future but I feel it will be an exciting revelation, and perhaps give those of us still alive a better understanding or idea about what our art is saying as a generality or movement, and there is perhaps more to it than what we can see in the visual quality, but we will find out. - The Monocle
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STUDENTS Words by Bryony Hipkin
It’s a difficult transition moving out of home to become student at Uni although most of us are eager to do it. The prospect of freedom is liberating before you’ve even packed your case and got out the door. All prospective students have longed for the day when they can eat what they want, go where they want, sleep in till mid afternoon, have no one to answer to and most importantly never have to clean anything again. Then, when the big day is finally upon you, and you actually arrive at your halls, it is so nerve racking to see where you’re going to be spending the next year of your life, and more importantly who with, that you almost want to get back in the family car and go home. I was lucky, just three people in total sharing our flat and more than enough space. Others did not get such a good deal. Our neighbours have six in their house, half the space and from day one you knew it was likely to end in disaster. Once the boxes are unpacked the first week is all about Fresher’s and Fresher’s is all about drinking: drinking games (ring of fire on a Wednesday night, why the hell not?), house parties, organised events, socialising and getting to know everyone better. The antics are outrageous, the hangovers feel like death has
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slapped you around the face and cheap shots of apple sours wipe your memory clean. If you’re lucky the nights out will be so fantastic people will be talking about them for months or years afterwards. Wine bottles become candle holders, beer cans line windowsills like trophies and numerous noise complaints come from surrounding houses - inevitable really. After wandering around in a drunken daze for a few weeks you start to sober up and realise you are living with total strangers despite the fact they’ve probably already had to hold your hair back or given you a bucket to cling to while relieving your stomach of its contents. Some of them are OCD afflicted neat freaks that use the post-it notes to remind you that you’re only human and left a glass out. Others appear to need to be scrubbed with bleach and a brillo pad. What do you say when you’re pushed to the point of drafting a joking yet serious note to co-habitees, “We love you but clean your dishes you rascal,” (this is significantly toned down) and placing it on top of their unwashed dishes? After three months of living and working together, sharing a kitchen, sharing a bathroom and being entwined in each other’s lives it had become apparent that at least one person in
our flat wasn’t pulling their weight. We have always been very proud of our flat, proud that we are all clean and also acting rather smugly when it wasn’t our kitchen that ended up with mayonnaise dripping from the ceiling. Our first intervention happened nine weeks in, that’s quite a long time for no bickering about washing up or who should be buying loo roll. But, after the flat was filled with the friends of our flatmate with the aversion to marigolds one weekend stern words were said. After a very late Halloween party I came stumbling in to the flat and instantly sobered up when I saw the state it was in. Last time I checked fajitas were not eaten off the floor, Stella wasn’t a room spray and mince belonged on a plate and not the floor, walls and ceiling. After quickly binning all the cans in sight I decided that as the last thing you want is to wake up the following day and still see mince sliding down your walls. So, after two hours of scrubbing, bleaching and disinfecting the kitchen the place regained some semblance of normality. With not so much as thank you tension started, but that’s unavoidable when students are thrown together like that.The last thing you want to do is seem like the mother/ bitch but when your warden comes around
and says that he spotted rats, and that next door had a pile of rubbish that reached almost four foot, your skin crawls and the marigolds come out. I’m of the opinion that being a student doesn’t give you the right to live like a pig but to ensure I wasn’t overreacting I asked some friends at other UNIs what their flatmates and flats were like. East London seems to be up there with the worst. After asking a friend her about hers, I heard a big intake of breath and she just kept talking! The highlight was the embarrassment of their flat being summoned by their housing association for a “fallen below an acceptable level of cleanliness” meeting. Our very own warden also had plenty to say. He shares a flat with another guy and is on the warpath to get him to stop being so dirty. To the point where the beloved sticky note goes on his door saying, “Shower, you smell”. If he thinks that’s bad he should chat to another friend. A few weeks ago she was screeching down the phone at me about how her flat mate had a friend to stay. He had seemed nice up to the point where she woke up to use the bathroom and found it covered in all kinds of excrements which hadn’t even been attempted to be cleaned. We in our flat have managed to avoid bodily function mishaps, rules and sticky notes and generally, helped by having a reasonable amount of space, get on well. However, the occupants in the flat over the road have not fared so well. Due to a ridiculous lack (which includes only half a shelf each in the fridge), masking tape has been used to section the workspace in the kitchen. A cooking rota and terse A4 notes listing everyone’s faults are plastered all over the cupboards. A friend at Glamorgan had a house mate was not actually a student but an illegal immigrant and was also mixing in drug related circles. When I asked my friend about it she very casually said: “He asked us if we wanted to go camping with him although he seemed eager to go alone which he did. He never came back and two weeks later the police and crime scene investigators were clearing out his room”. Compared to these examples the small rifts about washing up and whose turn it is to buy loo roll for our flat seem very minor and to be honest am I really that bothered about my sticky kitchen floors and full washing up bowl? It all comes as part and parcel of student life. You have to embrace it and you will soon realise that the dishwasher was the best invention ever created and Ciff will not clean red wine out of a carpet - no matter how much you use. - The Monocle
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Embriodery No.1 Kate Ashton BA(hons) Fine Art
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Late Night at the V&A And the power of making exhibition Words by Liam Tomlin
The V&A is one of the most prestigious art galleries in Europe with pieces from all over the world in massive collections. They understand that the power of the art gallery is fading in modern design so they will often put on events which encourage people to go to their gallery and therefore increasing their presence in the modern art world. As an example they currently have a design exhibition on called “The Power of Making” which I would recommend you all go to see. It is a collection of designers who have spent a long time creating these extravagant and beautiful objects using hand made methods. What I am here to talk to you is their most recent event “Friday Late – No Strings” where they got big name designers to come in to host workshops and give talks in the lecture theatres. They had a live mass reading event by “Visual Editions” where 150 people were given pages to read out loud and whatever order the pages were put in, it would create a
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different narrative story each time that still made some relative sense. They had workshops on screen printing and book binding for anyone to take part in with a unique souvenir to take home. They had a unique display of the Private Eye through the years with a tour by the cocurator of the first 50 years Elizabeth James herself. The prestigious “Eye” magazine, the international review of Graphic Design hosted a series of short talks on objects from V&A collections which inspire important designers such as David Pearson (David Pearson Design) and Nick Bell (Nick Bell Design). Without a doubt the highlight of the nights events was a talk by Simon Garfield, the award winning journalist and author of “Just my Type”, where he shared his stories and revelations whilst creating the book. It gave a fresh and enlightening view into the history of typography, and it turns out he is a very funny speaker. He had a book signing after his talk with people queing
up to meet him. There will be an article on his talk and his new book over leaf. There were two main workshops running throughout the evening, one was a screen printing workshop, and the other was a book binding workshop. In the screen printing workshop we made the A3 cover using an assortment of objects in the room, and then we filled the A3 with random A4 info graphics during the book binding workshop so at the end of the night we were able to leave with a book unique to us. There was so much going on during the evening that we found we didn’t know what we wanted to go to next, we ended up going to a talk by one of the curators from “Eye” magazine who spoke about typography and its history, it proved to be very interesting despite being 10 minutes. We also sat in on a talk about old Parisian art and the role it had in Art Nouveau which was enlightening and gave us a greater understanding of the movement. The evening was a great success, with artists from every corner of the design world coming together to either experiance the talks or give one themselves. There was a hive of activity throughout the entire museum, and with 150 people reading out loud in each room, you were able to wonder from one room to another and hear a completely different narrative creating a unique atmostphere. Each and every talk was stimulating and inspiring in an individual way and we all felt that we had learnt something new from all of them. I would reccomend that you attend one of the “Friday Late” nights at the V&A, they have them at the end of each month except December, but if you haven’t attended one before and are involved in the design world, you are seriously missing out, if only on the free alcohol. As I have mentioned, the highlight of the evening was the Simon Garfield talk about typography and his new book “Just my Type” if you want to learn more about this talk and his book Just my Type then turn over to see an article that partners well with this. I hope to see more young and upcoming designers at the next “Friday Late” in January 2012, it really is an unmissable experiance and a great way to get your name into the industry and meet potential employers. - The Monocle
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Simon Garfield talks about his new book “Just my type” and the history of typography.
Simon Frank Garfield is a British journalist and non fiction author. He studied at the independent University College School in Hampstead, London and the London School of Economics, where he was the executive editor of “The Beaver”. He has written several novels, from “Our Hidden Lives” a collection of WW2 diary extracts to “The End of Innocence” about Thatchers Britain. This experience in writing has given him and understanding and enthusiasm for typography and the effect it can have on how a page or text is read, this has inspired his most recent book. “Just my Type” is a book on the history of font types, looking at how Helvetica and Comic sans took over the typographic
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world and are now household names, also looking at why people refuse to use Gill Sans, because of Eric Gills relationships with his dogs. The book itself is a beautiful example of how a graphic book should be with a great use of layouts and typography. The book is also written in a brilliant way, turning what could be a potentially dull story into something memorable and inspiring. Not to forget the instructional value of the book, this is something every designer should read, typefaces have a life and a personality and a big part of that is learning their story, it will help you use them appropriately and understand the effect they have. It is written using a montage of anecdotes from the typographers lives, the social background, and their inspirations to weave a facinating story about the typefaces. The book explores the reason why we are still influenced by type choices made over 500 years ago. There are profiles of the great type originators from Baskerville to Zapf, it looks into the effect computers made to type from Letraset to screens. A hidden purpose to the book is to find out the best and the worst fonts in the world and what your choice of fonts says about you. The computer has allowed us all to access the typographer within and Garfield looks to separate the best from the vast amount of typefaces made available online and in design programmes. What lies behind every type choice we make, why do we choose Calibri over Century, or Centaur rather than American Gothic, is it all personal preference or are there underlying reasons why we are drawing to one or another. Typefaces are now 560 years old, so where can type go from here? Has every style and shape been explored or are there many thousands of variations we can’t see yet. It is difficult to understand just how much effort is put into designing a typeface, but Garfield has found a way to explain this whilst making it sound interesting and appealing, the level of research is staggering and a combined skilful presentation has meant this is an excellent book. It teaches an incredible depth of understanding as to how a typeface is laid out, with leading and spacing and the effects this has. This is obviously vital information for designers and typographers, but the real beauty of the book is that anyone
can read it, and then be able to banter with the best about typefaces, which is something no other book I have encountered about typography can do and only after reading this book did I realise how unfortunate that is. The study of typography can be an emmersive and enlightening subject and something that anyone who has an interest in art should understand, regardless of if they are practising artists or just appreciative viewers. Typography has an effect on all of us in every walk of life in advertising or in the workplace. This is the level of understanding that Garfield reached before he started his book and the journey through exploring the world of typography and those who direct it. He said in his talk at the late night V&A opening that every typographer he met were the most friendly in the designing world, Vincent Connare was described as the best of them, the fabled inventor of Comic Sans, Garfield described him as being able to take the abuse proudly despite being one of the record holders for death threats. This is because in reality Comic Sans is one of the most successful fonts of the modern age but modern designers just don’t wan to admit to it but we have all used it at some point in our lives, and it was recently discovered that it is perfect in creating word processed documents for dyslexic students because of its friendly, non threatening nature. In terms of design of course, Comic Sans is the touch of death but it shouldn’t be denied as a very succesful font. The talk at the V&A was very informative and
Vincent Connaire was described as the best of them inspiring, and he is infact a very funny and facinating man, he speaks with conviction and complete understanding of his subject, which makes him and the subject seem interesting as a result. I spoke to him briefly at the end of his talk and he was humbled to hear how much I enjoyed his book, which speaks for his character. He spoke briefly on 2 or 3 typefaces during the talk, but the level of information and presentation style meant that I was hanging on every word and it is the same in his book, I would highly reccomend that you purchase his book or at least get it out of your local library, it is something every designer needs to
read and in my opinion, a book everyone should read just for its written quality. His writing on the whole is well reviewed but he is very under appreciated as a novelist, I feel this book on typography will change that, and I will be looking out to attend more of his talks in the coming future and I reccomend you do too. If typography isn’t your thing, I implore you to check out his other works to see if any of them interest you instead. The “Just my Type” book is available from most book retailers and on Amazon for £10.36. The book really is worth every penny and I assure you, you won’t be dissapointed up until the last page. - The Monocle
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So we sat down with Coven and have a few beers whilst he was working away on his iMac, briefly pausing every couple of minutes to listen to the sample he’d been working on. Here’s how the interview with him went.
which tend to write sad’ish songs which I guess I have a soft spot for. I think producing wise, I have always admired Amon Tobin as Im sure a lot of other producers have, he can create/manipulate sounds like no other.
So you have a single on iTunes called ‘3 Words’ and various tracks on dupstep compilations. Whats it like to have your work available to the whole world? Its pretty cool, I never thought I would have my work available to all. Its pretty sick to think that someone in Hong Kong or Austrailia could be listening to my stuff.
Why the name Coven? I Honestly cannot remember the moment of thinking up ‘Coven’ as a name, therefore I have no idea why I have chosen that name, but I don’t regret (apart from being hunted down by a famous black metal band called ‘Coven’ who stated I was “unoriginal to copy such a well known band...Dost thou not search Wikipedia nor Google nor Youtube before making such a call?”
What started your musical interest? I have always been interested in music, I started learning the drums at 8years old, and been musically inclined ever since. I have been in a few bands of which we would incorporate electronic music to create a new edge, which led me on to producing my own stuff. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? I would like to see myself in five years time, still producing my music, and most importantly having fun with it. Who would you like to see listening to Coven? Alan Partridge What is so appealing about Dupstep? Compared to other dance genre’s e.g House, Electro. I think dubstep has less limitations than with other genres, you can make the most disgusting sound ever and it would be acceptable within the genre. Britney Spears, Jodie Marsh, and Jordan, Snog Marry Avoid Marry – Britney Spears Snog – Jordan Avoid – Jodie Marsh (shes a good looking man though) As a musician, who do you consider your main influence? I would consider my main influences are the likes of Chris Clark, Boards Of Canada, Eskmo, Amon Tobin and Radiohead, all of
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You are working on a new E.P, how is it going? The E.P is going great nearly finished, I have a great new singer on board and am really excited for you to hear this new collaboration. Do you have any soon releases? I have a new free EP coming out next month, and also there are releases lined up in March which I unfortuantly I can’t give away any details but it should be good! What did you do last Tuesday? Hmm, lets see, last tuesday I was attached to my computer all day, producing my new EP. What advice would you give to aspiring dupstep artist? Well since I am currently ‘aspiring’ my advice would be to keep referencing material that you would like to sound like alongside your track to found out what maybe lacking in your tracks, and then try and correct them. Also socialising and Networking is key both online and in person, sending tracks off to well known DJ’s / Labels / Radio can do wonders! Whats your most embarrassing moment? When I was young boy, I went shopping with my family in the local supermarket, it was in the fruit and veg aisle and I ran up to my mate and jumped on his back, turns out it wasn’t him, and wasn’t even anyone I knew.
What equipment do you use for producing? I use Logic rewired into Ableton.
Coven, tell us a joke? What does a gay horse eat..... HEEEEEEYYYYY
Whats your favourite chat up line? You. Me. Whipped cream. Handcuffs. Any questions?
If it could be anybody in the world, who would most like to see naked? Emma Watson, next question..
What do you do in your spare time? I have actually fallen into the game of ‘minecraft’. Rather amusing, but after about 4 hours of playing it, you do think to youself “What is the point of this game?”. Basically it’s just a game where you mine for gold, iron, wood and build stuff, thats about it really.. Whats your best selling song? I wouldn’t be able to give you an answer because I don’t actually know. I could tell you ‘popularity wise’ ‘3 words’ became quite popular when I first started off producing, but the remix I did for a producer called ‘Teknian’ recently, received good support from the likes of ‘Koan Sound’ and ‘Torqux and Twist’. Whats your favourite Pokemon? Mr. Mime
If you were stranded on a deserted island, how big is your penis? How ever big Hurley wants it to be. We decided to leave it on that appriciated Lost joke, and let him get on with his work. Ill give you a little sneak peak too by telling you; what he was doing sounded so sick, it’s unreal. Keep your ears open for a wicked track called ‘The Insect flick’. It will blow your mind, along with the rest of the, soon to be released, E.P. If you’re interested then look this guy up. Buy his stuff from iTunes, like his page on Facebook, friend him on Myspace. Go crazy! All you have to do is search ‘Coven’ and he’s there. This guy is talented beyond belief and destined to go far, so I reckonmend that all the hipster kids out there get in there fast before he becomes too mainstream for it no to be cool to like him anymore. You boys and girls know exactly what I mean. - The Monocle
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Recipe: Conors Chocolate Sludge Being students ourselves, at The Monocle, we understand how hard it is to keep your daily meals new and exciting, whilst still getting those vital vitamians. We know all about feeling grotty and tired though lack of nutrition. Then having a spirt of motivation to eat healthy, so you buy some vegtables to make a stir fry only for you to burn the fuck out of them, rendering them inedible. Then back to the cheese toasties and Macdonalds. So every issue we will be showing wacking in a few easy, cheap recipes that are so easy, they just cant go wrong. Not only are we trying to spruce up your magazine rack but your recipes too. We just want to look after our dear readers. We want to feed you guys without harming your overdraft or your precious drinking time. So get ready, get your utensils, ingredients and a reletivly tidy kitchen. Adult supervision is reckonmended. But more importantly, you
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must be ready to learn, issue by issue, this set of inspirational dishes and meals. My chocolate sludge is a great chocolaty snack to warm yourselves up with on a cold winters day. You serve it in a mug, and we suggest you sit back and watch Jingle All The Way to enjoy it to its full potential. Be warned it doesnt look very appetising, but believe me it is. Its easy to make and very cheap to buy for. So make your stomach the organ to envy by making this wonderful Wintery treat. This recipe is very close to the all famous Chocolate Mug Cake. Although, this certain recipe has been passed down from generation to generation in my family as they thought family wedding rings were too traditional. This of course is a massive, massive lie and this recipe consists of whatever you have lying around the kitchen in a sort of pankcake method to rid yourself of that one pesky egg.
Equipment tablespoon large mug teaspoon kitchen scales microwave dustbin
ingredients Self raising flour Granulated Sugar One Free range egg Semi skimmed milk virgin olive oil cocoa power lemon juice
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First of all, get your dusty old kitchen scales out. Remeber to set them to zero, and weight out about 60g of flour. If you’re a super poor student and dont own any scales then 60g is more or less 4 tablespoons. Well here we are using Sainsburies value plain flour. We reckonmend you DONT use this and instead use some half decent self raising flour. This will become apparent later on. Now we need another 60g of sugar. Pour these two powdery substances into your relitivly large mug, and thats the end of step one. Easy so far right?
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Step two is to add the chocolate to the Chocolate Sludge. We want 30g of cocoa powder, or 2 tablespoons if you cant do the maths. Here we have Tesco Finest hot chocolate powder, just incase you were wondering. Im spooning this straight into my most precious mug, my startbucks one which I stole from instore. Yeah alright, I know pretty much everyone does that these days, but I was sitting at a table next to 3 Police Officers as I slipped it into my bag. Yeah still sounds a bit lame, but I dont give a shit.
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I needed some help with step three. I have a really weird thing with eggs, and I hate cooking them. I like them when they are cooked, but I hate the shell getting all into your food, and I hate the slimey sticky stuff inside. Makes me gag. So anyway, I called for help and the cavalry came to come and crack my egg. Later on, we found out this egg had actually gone off, so a little word of advice is to check the sell by date. We are using free range eggs, because lets be honest, we all feel so much better eating a omlette formed from happiness.
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Next, we need to add about 175ml of milk. We ,ade sure to check that it was in date to aviod another unhealthy accident. We were in a little bit of a rebelious mood and decided to judge 175ml by just pouring it into the mug, as you can see in the picture. At this point the concoction of white and brown powder and various od liquids may look slightly disgusting. Just to warn you its going to start looking worse, but make up for it by being super tasty. We also put about 100ml of virgin olive oil into the mix, which started to sit on top and made the recipe look like kebab juice. So you’ve made it to step four already, hopefully with half the problems we encountered.
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Right, time for flavouring. The actual recipe says add a dash of vanilla extract, but we didnt have vanilla extract and instead decided to use lemon juice. I mean they’re pretty much the same. By this time we’d lost the will to live and for a moment, whilst pouring the lemon juice, I forgot what I was doing and ended up pouring way more than needed. Its a good job we like lemons and chocolate. Dont worry, it is lemon juice we are pouring into the mug, not urine, despite what it may look like.
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All the ingredients have been added, all thats left to do is to mix it. The idea here is to make it look as much like dog excrement as humanly possible. You will have to use a big of elbow grease on this because it’ll get sticky. You need to properly get in there and uncover the cheeky block of flour thats hiding at the bottom. Keep stirring for a few minutes until it becomes really thick and starts to get harder to stir.
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Ok kids, nearly there. This is the bit you may need adult supervision for. The using of the microwave. If you dont have any adult lying around then you could just warm the mug up with your hands and hope it has the same effect. So, put the mug on a plate, and put it into the microwave. Set it to full power and put it on for 3 whole minutes. Then sit infront of your cooking creation and hope that everything has gone alright. This is because if you mix it properly like advised in step six, then you’ll get a coconut. In which case you’re fucked and will have to start all over again.
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After the long awaited PING of the microwave we rushed over to the fogged over glass panel which seperated us from our tasty snack. We were so excited like little kids running down into the living room on Christmas day. We opened the door, to find that we would be disapointed beyond belief, and our vision of warm chocolatey goodness was shattered by this foul smelling material that lined my mug. We had messed up a perfectly simple recipe, and we felt ashamed for the rest of the day. - The Monocle
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Toby Holmes Illustration Interviewed by Liam Tomlin
We recently spoke to Toby Holmes, the lead Illustrator and founder for “Toby Holmes Illustration”, we wanted to know more about how he likes to work and and what he is up to at the moment. What do you enjoy about Illustration? Illustration to me is a way to express myself in ways I wouldn’t normally be able to do. I’d like to think I draw some fairly weird stuff that doesn’t make much sense. What better way is there to get it out? What do you think got you into illustration? I’ve always drawn, but then again who hasn’t? I guess it’s just been a natural progression from doing art through school and college. I don’t think there was ever a moment where I decided, “I’m going to illustrate today”.
pretty excited, including him. I queued for 7 hours to get through the door and buy shirt. What is your biggest influence in your designs? Artists like Drew Millward and Dan Mumford have been a big influence while trying to develop my own style. I think because a lot of my work ends up being screen printed, I’ve had to make a lot of work with a limited palette of solid colours and thick line work. I guess this dictates how my work looks to a large degree.
What have your designs been used for before? I’ve done numerous t-shirt designs and a couple of album covers as well as tote bags, posters etc. All for really small bands or clothing companies. There’s quite a few of my t-shirts out an about in the world now. It’s always a rush to see strangers, wearing a piece of your own work. Immensely What are you listening to at the moment? satisfying. My housemate has music on most of the time, so usually whatever he puts on in the What do you use for your illustrations? It house. He has a fairly diverse music taste, usually starts with pencil and pen work. from Parkway Drive to The Saturdays. I Then once it gets to the digital stage, I use a could be listening to almost anything. Wacom tablet to redraw the work. I also try to use something new whenever I can; I try Met anyone famous recently? I met the to create textures with watercolor or spray man behind Johnny Cupcakes at his store paint or whatever else I have to hand, and opening in London. It was his first store then use them in someway to render the outside the US and everyone there was images.
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What couldn’t you live without? It would have to be my partner Chloe. She always reassures me of what I’m doing and makes me feel better when work isn’t going to well. She believes in me most of the time, which helps more than anything else can.
paid graphics job that makes me happy. Living in a house with a pizza oven in the garden. Living the dream.
Are you working on anything currently? I’ve just completed some screen-printed posters for Spill Your Gutts, which should be available this December. Other than What do you do when you aren’t that I’m just working on projects for my working? To be honest the rest of my first year at university. time is taken up hanging with my friend Tom, watching star wars, seeing Chloe When did you start THI? THI started and baking all sorts of bread and cakes. under the name “Tob” about two or three I’m also quite interested in science and years ago. Mainly because I saw people in astronomy. I think if I wasn’t an artist, id a couple of years older than me working be some kind of mad scientist baker. on flyers and album art for local bands. I wanted in on it, so I set up a Facebook What is your favourite movie? Why? page with my portfolio, and waited/ The original star wars trilogy, because it’s hoped the commissions would come in awesome! Have you experienced any outside clients Where would you like to be in 10 years? wishing to talk about projects? I get quite Married with a couple of kids, and well a few enquiry’s about work, I get one or
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two every month or so, mainly just little designs. I was approached by Honour Over Glory to do a design or two for them, but it Thanks to Toby Holmes for donotating his time and effort to take part in this interview didn’t work out. for us. Holmes is an extremely talented Have you any advice for people wishing to Illustrator, if you liked any of the designs start Illustration? Try to avoid looking too from on the “Spill your Gutts” clothing you much at what other people are doing, it’s easy are going to like Toby’s work, as he works to get into a trap of constantly comparing closely with Tom Gutteridge on alot of the yourself to others. And that doesn’t help you designs for the cloths. He has alot of his work online and it isn’t hard to find, just google be creative. “Toby Holmes Illustration”. Holmes is only What is your ideal Sunday? Have a long going to get bigger and more popular and lay in, get up, chill all day, cook something definately one to look out for in the future. new and tasty for dinner. Whack out my He keeps his work contemporary and the telescope in the evening and look at some skill and level of detail in his work make planets, then back to bed. Ideally without him one of the best upcoming talents in the world of illustration, and I’m sure it won’t having to get up on Monday. be long before we start seeing his work What is your favourite thing to cook? Either everywhere. As he said during the interview pizza or cupcakes, they’re both things I feel I he does do contracted work so if you would can do quite well, but there’s always room for like to get in contact with him about some improvement. One day ill make the perfect future work, all his details are available online on his website. - The Monocle pizza. Have you any of your own Recipes? Surprisingly no. Nearly everything I do starts as some kind of recipe. My Dr Pepper cupcakes are very popular, but it’s a cake recipe I found online. I just make them cupcake size, and use another recipe for the frosting. If so, Can you make it for us? If you ask nicely! What is your favourite thing to draw? I like to draw oozing things, weird shaped sea creatures, all sorts really. What do you consider yourself best at drawing? The above really, which is why I draw them a lot I suppose. I don’t like to limit myself to doing just those things though. That’s stops me progressing as an artist. What do you consider your life goal? I aim be truly happy. I don’t think its something many of us ever achieve, so it’s something good to aim for.
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Grayson Perry: The Tomb of the unkown craftsman at the Brittish museum
Words by Liam Tomlin
“The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman is an exhibition of Grayson Perrys own work alongside the Brittish Museums own collection of objects made by unknown men and women throughout history. Perry has created a memorial to the annonomous skilled individuals who have made all the objects in the museum. He believes “people still come to the Museum to see the actual thing made and touched by the craftsman of history and marvel at their skill”. There will be approximately 100 or more objects from the Museum in his exhibition, and he has chosen them like art, and admires them on a purely aesthetic level. A major piece is the custom motorcycle which he road
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to Germany in a pilgrimage. They bike is of Perrys own design as he feels its a tribute to the old customized products of the past eras, much the same as a suit of armour for a king, a motorcycle is the contemporary equivalent. He intends for people to feel as if they are going on a pilgrimage to his exhibition, more so that they are coming to see all the beautiful things in the Brittish Museum. The exhibit opened on the 6th of October 2011 and is on till the 19th February 2012 so there is no excuse for not coming and having a look at Perrys work as well as some of the more beautiful pieces in the Museums collection. - The Monocle
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student work
Skull No.2 Victoria Heward BA(hons) Fashton Promotion and Imaging
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Skull No.3 Victoria Heward BA(hons) Fashton Promotion and Imaging
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