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The Gift Shop

We're experimenting with the departments below - they are hosted on CafePress who will ship anywhere in the world from their base in California. This shopping area is just getting started, your support is most welcome - thank-you!

It features gift items created using original artwork from Simon Phipps, gathered from his photography while travelling. The original artwork is also available as prints and posters, please contact us if you would like to obtain one of these.


Sphere within SphereThe newest department in the gift shop features a photograph taken in Dublin at Trinity College. Outside the new library building is a fascinating modern sculpture called 'Sphere within Sphere'. As you can see, it speaks of technology, precision, gold, decay and so much more.We think it makes a great t-shirt.

Purple Flower PowerThe power of a simple photograph is often surprising - this, amazingly, is just a photo of a thistle! This design makes a striking t-shirt, mug, mousemat or bag. It's based on a photograph taken in an English hedgerow in Summer 2001 - the white 'fluff' is the pollen loaded on the flower. Visit my Purple Flower Power department to see the whole range of items available.

Aim High, the Sky's the Limit!
The soaring free spirit of the "Aim High" hawk (photo taken in Hong Kong, again with the D-30) makes a great mousemat and more. See this and the other items in the Aim High department.


The Provocative BagAnd last, but not least, is the Provocative Slogan department. If you were at JavaOne in 1997, you'll remember that a forklift dumped thousands of t-shirts outside Bill Gates' keynote in the Moscone Center bearing the slogan "In a world without fences, who needs Gates". Now, of course, we could never reveal who coined that slogan (eh, Allan?), but you can now get one of those t-shirts as well as two other slogans (this time by us) that have so far not made it big but are waiting for their day.