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The Department of Anti-Recreation · Official goods
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02 / PUBLIC LIFESatireDeadpan designs for civic nonsense, politics and the everyday.Browse the satire
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Turn the years, places, people and odd little details of your life into artwork made only for you.
Start with an example. This sample shows how your details become artwork: add them, see the exact result, then approve it before anything is printed. From £21.50.
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- Free UK delivery over £30Estimated arrival: 5 to 8 days
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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 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.