I recently had the pleasure of watching Mr Scruff play at Leeds Uni. It was a pretty special night; 5 hours of music covering such a vast array or genres. As a rule, he plays right across the board...seemlessly blending styles together. By the end of it, the crowd were eating out of his hand, with 'Could You Be Loved' by Bob Marley closing the set.
However, I'm not blogging to just hurrah his music. As a designer, I'm really interested in his illustration work. He creates such querky little characters, but they work very well with the music, almost giving it a personality. Scruff provides a lot of the imagery for his music videos, as well as providing much of the soundtrack for popular iPhone game 'Rolando'.
Scruff is a hard working, honest guy who genuinly loves his work. That's all we can ever want, and aspire to be
If your interested in Monsieur Scruff...visit http://mrscruff.com/
I've always loved his graphics. Genius. I like how he ties the whole style in with image and video too to create an overall ident. If you saw a fish like that hanging around, you would instantly know it was a ninja tuna.
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Mr Scruff all the way. Trouser Jazz to the max
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of having ninja tuna. I also like the proportions of the the characters, they're really unusual
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