Welcome to the emporium

Art for people who don't take art too seriously.

Welcome to Artisan Illusion™; home of the Shititake™ Shop, an eccentric collection of wall art, prints, cards, mugs, tees, apparel and other things we thought should exist.

No velvet ropes. No art degree required.

WOW
WHY?
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What is Artisan Illusion™?

A brand. An emporium. A bit of nonsense.

Artisan Illusion™ is the home for ideas that deserve to escape the sketchbook, screen or imagination and become something you can actually own.

The Shititake™ Shop brings those ideas together under one slightly ridiculous roof.

Some are beautiful. Some are funny. Some are useful. Some are gloriously unnecessary. That's rather the point.

The Shititake™ Shop

One emporium. Many strange little worlds.

Different ideas live here. Different styles. Different moods. One increasingly difficult place to leave empty-handed.

PRINT
YOUR
OWN

Collection 02

[PRINTABLE BRAND / COLLECTION NAME]

Downloadable things for people who enjoy making things their own.

See the printables →
SEND
SOMETHING

Collection 03

[CARDS BRAND / COLLECTION NAME]

Cards for birthdays, occasions, non-occasions and things in between.

Browse the cards →
PUT
IT ON
A MUG

Collection 04

[MUGS BRAND / COLLECTION NAME]

Because apparently everything becomes better when you can drink from it.

View the mugs →
WEAR
THE
IDEA

Collection 05

[APPAREL BRAND / COLLECTION NAME]

T-shirts, sweatshirts and other wearable evidence of questionable taste.

See what's wearable →
MORE
STUFF
↑

Coming soon

[FUTURE COLLECTION NAME]

Whatever comes next. We haven't invented it yet. Give us a minute.

Keep an eye on it →
ART ≠ SERIOUS

The Artisan Illusion™ idea

Art is an illusion. Stuff is real.

You see a picture. You see an idea. Your brain does the rest.

We like that bit.

So we take visual ideas, typography, illustrations, jokes, observations, oddities and occasional moments of questionable judgement and turn them into things that can live in your home, on your desk, in your wardrobe or in somebody else's postbox.

That's Artisan Illusion™.

A perfectly sensible question

Why is it called Shititake™?

Because "The Tasteful Online Emporium of Beautiful and Occasionally Quite Silly Things" was already taken.

Shititake™ is our affectionate take on shitty tacky stuff; the sort of thing that makes you stop, grin and think: "I don't need that."

Then you buy it anyway.

SHITI
TAKE™

Taste is subjective.
That's convenient.

How this works

From weird idea to your front door.

01

We imagine it

An idea appears. Sometimes it's useful. Sometimes it's funny. Occasionally it's both.

02

We make it

The idea becomes artwork, typography, illustration or something else worth putting on something.

03

You choose it

Find it in the Shititake™ Shop and decide whether your life genuinely needs it.

04

It arrives

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The Journal

Things we've been thinking about.

Read the Journal →
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Enough browsing

Go on. Have a look.

You might find something you didn't know you needed.

Enter the Shititake™ Shop