The Great Character Exodus

After a year in our current office, we searched for another nest where to mint our Characters. This is the third office that we have and it’s nice to remember the size of all of them: the first one was only 20m2, 45m2 counted the second one and the last one will be 60m2. At the moment we have no room left for the many times dreamed ring of “sumo”, but everything comes. Just with this kind of changes is when you look back and start to remember the most important moments you go through with this adventure like ours and then you get melancholic. In fact, while we write this post, “we bring tears to one size”.

We are not going too far, we move from 32 Montera Street to the number 9 (same street). So the moving will not be so heavy, although we have to move a bunch of Characters. The new studio, besides some luxury amenities such as entry phone and nice and clean restrooms, it has also three separate rooms. A whole new “mansion” from our point of view. At the entrance, the biggest room, in which we are going to work. Even though it has inside windows there’s daylight to spare, so we find it much more comfortable. The next room is exactly the opposite, no daylight or windows at all, so this one is fantastic to set up our warehouse. The third and last one, which will be used as warehouse, meeting room and dinning room/kitchen.

We think it will take us a couple of weeks to settle down for good, but as soon as we put the corks (small chalkboards), the shelves and once we had counted the Characters to ensure that it is not missing not even one, we’ll organise a party to which all of you are invited. Of course, we are going to have refreshments and peanuts to spare, besides good company and conversation.

We will give you more information from our headquarters. Here’s a pic of the main room.

We participate in "Si, lo se" 3rd birthday

Though is likely that many of you already know this blog, we´ll tell you to introduce it that "Si, lo se" is one of those blogs, a spanish one, that shows us every day peculiar and different products. And what´s the best? It doesn´t show only one each day, but a few, so you should visit it frecuently so you don´t get lost among the latest news they write about daily. We do ;]

It´s been three years since they began writing about all this stuff. We could say they´ve already grown up. And to celebrate it nothing better than a contest, one of those that we know you like much. They are going to give away different items, some Tolky Monkys´ Characters included, among those people who leave a comment letting them know which one is the "most original, odd and uncommon gift" someone can do, besides from a Tolky Monkys´ Character of course...

More info directly at their blog.

16 Characters designs at 10€ each!!

We are right now in the middle of the second part of the Resales. Now, you can find out up to 16 Character designs for t-shirts for only 10€ each: 8 boys t-shirts and 8 girls t-shirts among the catalogue. You can view eight of them in our front page [www.tolkymonkys.com/en/], but for the other 8 designs you should surf a little bit through our catalogue.

Remember that the 21st February we´ll remove these sales and all the Characters will return to the normal price. See you soon!!

Tolky Monkys illustration in Madrid centre

Here we send several pics of our last public project, a vinyl in a huge window of an office located in Calle Montera 32 `[Madrid]. In total 7 m2 of vinyl for the whole composition.

GENERAL VIEW
Maybe it doesn´t appear to be much work, but it took us almost one month and a half to design it, among other projects of course. And three days to mount it. Actually, this vynil was thought to be sticked on Christmas, you can see a few Christmas details indeed, though finally we didn´t manage to have it on time. How the idea emerged is very easy. We have the studio in Calle Montera, but without outside windows, but there´s an ad agency called Murray that maybe some of you know (www.holamurray.com). Talking among us, we thought it would be great to use their big huge window oriented to Calle Montera with some of our Characters, so we sent them a mail, without much hope that´s the truth, and it resulted that they liked the idea. Very nice people!! Soon afterwards we were having tea and chatting in their beautiful office about it. They wanted to have an illustration about Christmas, but not the typical image. Finally we focus it to wish a happy 2009 and it was a great idea. Other way it wouldn´t have made any sense, cause finally we stick it around the 15th of January. Buffff!!

In the composition, you can see Unai, the samurai monkey, fighting against the Fatty Noel Rabbit and its fearful criminals, the pirate octopi. We liked a lot the idea of representing Santa Claus as a fat and lazy rabbit with an evil face ;] Unai´s mission: To defend the one-off star that the selfish Noel Rabbit hasn´t got yet. But it won´t be easy. He will have to fight against a furious and hungry octopi horde. Will he manage to defende the one-off star? We don´t have much clear what we want to say with all this ;] The best is that you get your own conclussions.

Of course, you can pass by Calle Montera 32 and take a look to the window in the 1st floor. You will be able to see in person what we show here with a few pics. View address in Google Maps.

We hope you like it! See you soon!

RIGHT SIDE [You can read "Protect your stars. Enjoy 2009"]

LEFT SIDE

The Resales continue at Tolky Monkys!!

This February, Sally and Sally, the Resales twins, have decided to stay... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Of course, they aren´t going to fold their arms. They don´t get along with several Characters, so they are going to send them away of the warehouse.

For this reason, from 3rd February till 21st of the same month, they are going to "guillotine" literally the prices of some of them and they´ve let their prices in only 10€ each, either for boys t-shirts or girls t-shirts.

During this first week, till 12rd February, there will be 8 Characters at 10€: God of Eye, Abram, Arquimedes... and next week, till 21st, other 8 Characters will get their prices cut off. Pay attention!!

We have the most beautiful background for Twitter!!!

For those that don´t know, Tolky Monkys has its own Twitter. Of course any of our loyal friends can be our follower and be in touch of tips we write there, most of them pieces of nonsense, but as sometimes we don´t feel like writing a post or simply we want to let it know through other channel, so we write it there. We use it to announce what our Characters do, projects, new designs for t-shirts, hoodies, posters, etc. Lo utilizamos para anunciar cosas que hacen nuestros Personajes, nuevos diseños, proyectos, etc. Anyway, suscribe to our Twitter feeds if you are a Twitter member as well ;]

The fact is that you have the chance of uploading a customized image for the Twitter background, and so we did. We have filled it of little octopus or, as we say in spanish, "pulpillos". We hope you like it!! It´s nothing great, but it´s very nice. Isn´t it?