Ben Normanton

Ben Normanton is an illustrator and designer who has worked for multiple clothing company's including my yard and is currently working for drop dead clothing.

A q and a taken from Bens ask tumblr
how did you get so well known? Do you think the rep monster squad gained is what has made you as big as you are? Just curious if you ever publicised yourself when you were starting out.

Hey, I’m glad you like what I’ve been doing mate. For those who don’t know ‘Monsta Squad’ was a small project I had going roughly 5/6 years ago when I became hugely inspired by the UK’s independent clothing labels/scene (notably Trapstar and A.in.T). Brands like Mishka, Rockers and The Hundreds where getting small drips of UK distribution and all this shit was exciting to me so I wanted to be involved in some way and make some shirts of my own. I enjoyed doing it and they sold ok….got to meet some awesome people through it (i was at uni then too) so it was a lot of fun and I’d recommend it to designers/drawers etc who want to provide people who like their work with something physical whilst making a little bit of money. I always got my close friend who was doing it with me to talk to ‘the man’ though so not much really lead back to me.

In my eyes to be ‘well known’ is a foolish pursuit. It really really doesn’t matter. The quickest way to be well known is to kill people ‘mental’ style or film yourself having sex and see if the internet loves it. Just do what you love doing without physically harming anyone else and whether people like it or not you’ll be happy. The internet is the greatest communicative tool we have, it connects people worldwide….I see it as our modern equivalent of a megalithic structure. It’s infinitely huge and gives you so many different opportunities to make your mark in different ways and share the shit that makes you tick with other people…..so just throw stuff out there and see what happens!

More q and a from his site
http://asksuckout.tumblr.com/

http://www.suck-out.com/

Also a short video showing a one of his designs going from the sketch to the final product.
http://vimeo.com/31847673