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From the Vault.

simonvillet — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:27:45 +0000

Friday Robot is Meek and Mild.

Old Skool Skate.

simonvillet — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:03:35 +0000

This didn’t go ahead in the end. But I am rather fond of it. Old Skool Skate.
- Simon Villet

Mouse driven Ion Thruster Intergalactic Space Drive ship thing

simon villet — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:19:40 +0000

dun dun daaaa!

I’m a designer who is fascinated with Science.

Somehow as a complete amateur I believe that through obsessive consumption of sites like physorg.com and wikipedia I can train myself to spot solutions to man’s ever growing needs. Or problems. But that depends on how you look at things. And in an effort to remember my hair-brained schemes and with the view to possible feedback I’m going to start posting them.

MAD IDEA 1: Mouse Drive

An ion thruster can propel a space ship through space using tiny but consistent force to steadily increase velocity of said spaceship through a vacuum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster

Your limitation is how much gas you can put on board as fuel.

Solution 1:

You can attempt to harvest the vast amounts of gas in space.
But it is a bit haphazard as to where these clouds are and at what density.

Solution 2:

You use mice.

That turn wheels to get food thereby generating electricity to power the drive.
Droppings fertilize plants. Urine is distilled into water. Residue becomes fuel/fertiliser.
Plants make oxygen and food. Food is harvested. Food feeds mice as reward for turning wheels.
If perfectly managed the system could carry on for quite some time.

A micro version of the human condition really.

DISCLAIMER:
I don’t really want to make a mouse drive. And would have ethical issues with putting mice into space to live in a micro self sustaining environment. Even if it simulated the perfect mousey nirvana. it would be Cruel and Wrong.

Unless of course we could speak to mice. We brought it up as if in casual conversation. They got really really excited.

And the Mice volunteered.

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P.S.

I first read about ion thrusters many years ago so my knowledge was shaky to begin with. After reading the wiki entry myself it seems that grid degradation is more of an issue than fuel limit. So in addition to my above proposal I add spiders that weave new grids daily. And cockroaches to feed them. And that’s all I can think of for now.
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honda motorcycles post sales

simon villet — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:53:47 +0000

Some recent work on Honda for post sales.

The budget was tight so these postcards could be used as DM and in store

as point of sale.

photo realistic sample of merc for illustration project

simonvillet — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:36:40 +0000

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come fortune

simonvillet — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:55:33 +0000

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warp-and-woof coat of arms

simonvillet — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:51:41 +0000

Kut Communications London decided to rebrand and relaunch

themselves as Warp and Woof. They wanted something

traditional with gravitas, as well as a good sense of fun. This

is the new logo I designed for them. I’ll post the rest of the

rebranding project here as soon as it’s launched officially.

dawg – an old animation. Fairly weird but quite entertaining.

simonvillet — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:05:22 +0000

CLICK TO PLAY

I made this rather strange animation as a student and won some awards for it. The story was made up by strangers. I would walk around and ask people what should happen next.

Design Portfolio PDF

simonvillet — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:46:07 +0000

I’ve updated my design portfolio

submissions to things I’ve learned in my life

simon villet — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:55:36 +0000

I’ve submitted some of my work to sagmeister’s things I have learned in my life project. Click to see…

wall of drawings I plan to get round to some time. soon.

simon villet — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:42:15 +0000

click the illustration link on the right to see some of my finished work.

Welcome to simon villet’s website

simon villet — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:55:35 +0000

Hello! Please browse the links on the right and have a look. This site will be improving and changing radically over the next few months as I start to implement all my amazing cunning plans.

Here are my two latest paintings. I plan on a series of about ten.