We've featured many of the Big Tomato Company's bright and colourful goods before: their latest designs are these Pop mugs, virtually guaranteed to cheer up your cup of tea.
The mugs are each decorated with a large Pop Art style motif. There are ten to pick from featuring things like a lipstick, a rainbow, a pill, cherries and the heart sunglasses pictured above. Like their other designs, the motifs are placed onto large English creamware mug.
The mugs cost £13.95 each.
See the range online
Art Meets Matter are celebrating 007 with their James Bond collection.
The range includes mugs, book bags and deckchairs covered with the covers of some of Ian Fleming's most famous books. Though the designs have a period feel, they're actually taken from the 2002 US editions of the books and are designed by Richie Fahey.
There are six different novels to pick from for the mugs and a selection of three titles used on the bags, including the From Russia With Love design shown above. Meanwhile, you can pick from either Casino Royale or Thunderball (pictured over the page) to adorn your deckchair.
The mugs cost £8.95, the book bag costs £15.95 while the chair is available for £74.95.
See the range online
The “Why Go Home So Soon?” Collection is another range developed from the artwork in the London Transport Museum Poster Collection.
The items available are the usual sort of thing that the London Transport Museum sells – mugs, travelcard holders, coasters and placemats – but the designs are really rather lovely. They date back to 1938 from a series of posters encouraging commuters to dine out, under the slogan “Why Go Home So Soon?” Marc Fernand Severin did the original illustrations, which are in a typical 1930s style.
A set of four coasters costs £12.99. Visit the London Transport Museum website to see the full collection.
Nostalgic for the days of cassette tapes? Even if your choice of musical format has moved on, you can share your love with this C60 mug, designed by Rod Clark.
The design is based on the label from a 1970s BASF cassette tape which has been simply wrapped around the mug. Perfect for using alongside this cassette coaster.
The mug costs £6.99
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Dupenny’s ever so slightly risqué burlesque illustrations can now be found on a range of ceramics.
The Dupenny Burlesque Dinner Plates feature four designs, Scarlet, Gigi (against red backgrounds), Peaches and Ophelia (against teal backgrounds). The plates measure 26cm and cost £25 each, or you can buy a set of four, containing one of each design for£100. The same lovely ladies also appear on side plates (£20 each) or mugs (£12).
Visit the Dupenny website to view the whole range.
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the start of the Blitz in England, London Transport museum currently has an exhibition called “Under Attack” which looks at the role played by public transport. To accompany the exhibition , the museum’s shop has a range of related products based on the London Transport wartime signs and posters.
These signs and posters focused on advising staff and passengers on emergency rules and regulations with warnings such as “Drinking Water Only. Not to be Used for Washing” and “Sheltering on this Stairway is Prohibited”, which are reproduced here on mugs, t-shirts and travelcard holders. Other warnings relating to gas and toilet paper are also printed onto baby clothes, which you may or may not find amusing, depending on your sense of humour.
Prices start at £4.95 for the travelcard holders and go up to £14.99 for t-shirts. View the whole range on the London Transport Museum Shop website.
