The Department of Anti-Recreation · Official goods

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Personalised prints made from your own names, dates and places. Satirical clothing and objects for everything else.

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Artificially Unintelligent on a unisex t-shirt
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Artificially Unintelligent
Your conversation is important to us on a unisex t-shirt
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Your conversation is important to us
Stop the Boats on a unisex t-shirt
From £18.50 · unisex t-shirt

Stop the Boats

MAKE IT YOURS

Your story, properly framed.

Turn the years, places, people and odd little details of your life into artwork made only for you.

Start with an example. Add your details, see the exact result, then approve it before anything is printed. From £21.50.

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Our Story timeline print A sample to editOur Story timeline printYour chapters, dates and places, set on one timeline you approve before it is printed.Open the editor That Night star map print A sample to editThat Night star map printThe sky calculated for your chosen place, date and local time, drawn from a star catalogue and approved before it is printed.Open the editor Where It Happened map print A sample to editWhere It Happened map printThe place that matters, mapped and marked, with your words beneath — approved before it is printed.Open the editor

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Team Davey (Burnham and Farage) - Select your leader on a unisex t-shirt
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Team Davey (Burnham and Farage) - Select your leader

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All change with Andy Burnham on a unisex t-shirt
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All change with Andy Burnham

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Norman Conquest - History on a unisex t-shirt
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Norman Conquest - History

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I Came to Spoons for the Flooring on a unisex t-shirt
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I Came to Spoons for the Flooring

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Artificially Unintelligent on a unisex t-shirt
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Artificially Unintelligent

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Stop the Boats on a unisex t-shirt
From £18.50 · unisex t-shirt

Stop the Boats

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  • Free UK delivery over £30Estimated arrival: 5 to 8 days
  • Made to order in the UKNothing sits in a warehouse
  • You approve the exact artworkBefore anything is printed
  • Misprint? We reprint it freeSend a photo, keep the original

ORIGIN STORY / CHICHESTER

It started with a sign.

AntiRecreation grew out of the Chichester Anti-Recreation Partnership (CARP): a straight-faced one-person campaign using spoof civic signs to raise a smile and make local problems easier to talk about.

What began around Chichester became the visual language behind a wider store devoted to everyday British absurdity.

THE PAPER TRAIL

BBC News One man's campaign against his 'anti-fun' city Good News Network These silly signs are one man's campaign against his anti-fun city road.cc The Ultra Low Excitement Zone

The Visitor Centre

The staff are in.

A small Department staff supervises your enjoyment of this website: a Carp with a rubber stamp, a clockwork mouse who tells the time, a moth with a lantern, and Doreen at the Complaints hatch. Meet them, collect stamps on a permit that means nothing, and keep the herons off the pond.

Meet the staff Play Herons Discouraged