About the Artist: Onorio D'Epiro: Monster Melter 3000

Onorio D'Epiro

Onorio explains his design inspiration for Monster Melter 3000:

“I’ve always had a love for sci-fi movies such as Alien, Blade Runner and 2001.

So I really wanted to design a watch that pays homage to this genre in cinema.

The final battle in Aliens has always stuck with me as a really cool moment and I used this as inspiration but with my own playful twist.

I mean, who doesn’t love a drooling tentacle monster with 30 eyes! My main aim is to design a fun watch that makes you smile every time you look at your wrist.”

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Onorio D’Epiro is a designer and illustrator from Bedfordshire, England. As a child he developed a fascination for character design and special effects and mastered the video recorder at a precocious age in order to feed his passion for film.

He studied Model Design and Special Effects at the University of Hertfordshire and after graduating was drawn to the world of designer art toys. He began by creating one-off bespoke pieces and later developed a series of robot collectables known as “Justrobots”, which gained a dedicated following around the world.

His work has been exhibited widely including at The Pictoplasma Portrait Gallery in Berlin, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the MARCO Museo de Arte, Contemporano in Mexico City.

He is currently working on developing some of his characters for a children’s television series. Check it out for yourself at: onoriodepiro.work