art + design

When art and film collide, good things invariably happen!

Chasing Cotards is a high profile short film, beautifully shot, with stunning production design, cinematography evoking classic Hollywood elegance. Read more…

Project in aid of UNICEF’s Haiti Earthquake Emergency Fund

We love design, we love art and we’re pretty partial to large helpings of creativity. Those ingenious creatives, Thunder Chunky and Ben The Illustrator, have come up with a creative, imaginative and really freakin’ awesome idea to help raise awareness and, more crucially, funds for Haitian little people affected by the recent earthquake. Read more…

Exclusive Mitch Plush from Neon Monster

Neon Monster kicks off 2010 with an all-ages, eco-friendly plush rendition of their monstrous character, Mitch!

Founded in 2007 by four collectors who wanted to share their love for limited edition collectibles, Neon Monster continues to solidify its place as San Francisco’s premiere destination for art toys with its own line of exclusive character figures. And today is the day they unleash Mitch on the public! Read more…

A new generation in the design industry’s trade awards

The brand new “Working Class Awards” created by Monsieur Cabinet (Dave) and Tigz, both emerging talents in the field of illustration, aims to be “the people’s people guide to the year in visual communication” which includes, though is not limited to: Advertising, Graphic Design, Digital Media & Illustration. Read more…

Land & Sky | Lizzy Stewart & Christopher Bettig

Here Gallery, Bristol

21st January – 27th February 2010

Christopher Bettig, the highly acclaimed artist, designer and member of the Vannen crew, will be doing a mini tour of the UK this January; he’s got an exhibition with the brilliantly talented Lizzy Stewart @ Here Gallery in Bristol. The exhibition, entitled Land & Sky, opens on Thursday 21st January from 7-9 pm. Read more…

Matt JOnes a.k.a Lunartik presents… Custom Tea Tour

Curated by Scooter & Jinx

Yesterday, we took a day trip along the south coast to Hastings and dropped in on designer art toy curators, Scooter & Jinx – we got to hang out, chat incessantly about toys and have a sneaky peek at what was brewing in Lunartik’s Custom Tea Tour… Read more…

Chris Bettig has judged you little blaggers and the winner is…

Holly!!! Congratulations Holly, you just blagged yourself a Vannen!

Holly’s prize winning blag was, “All I want for Christmas is Bettig’s Vannen because… it’ll sell for more than coal. (I’ve been bad this year).” Clearly Chris likes a bad girl! Read more…

Lunartik’s Custom Tea Tour at Scooter & Jinx

27th December 2009 – 4th January 2010

A touring exhibition celebrating the release of Matt JOnes’ New Vinyl Toys on tour with an amazing selection of Tea Toys customised by some of the world’s favorite artists! Read more…

Blag yourself a Collector’s Edition “Winter Exclusive” Vannen Watch by Chris Bettig for Christmas! Only 100 Worldwide.

The competition is very simple, all you need to do is complete the sentence and then the very “Best Blag for Bettig” wins this cracker of a prize! Christopher Bettig will be your judge, so please, be inventive. Complete the following sentence: Read more…

Eva and Franco Mattes a.k.a 0100101110101101.ORG

The group’s comically unwieldy name stands for the letter “K” in binary code, and the possible joke reference to the hero of Kafka’s The Trial (”K.”) is perfectly appropriate – the young artists behind the group, Italian-born Eva and Franco Mattes, make performances and web art that play on the inscrutable, Kafkaesque power of the corporate media. Read more…