We’re spreading the festive joy around even further over here at Spunique. Get 20% off all these fantastic design products until 20 December. Hurry Hurry Now.


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We’re spreading a little pre-festive help among our customers until 20 December with FREE POSTAGE & GIFT WRAPPING on all orders over £50 (UK only). We’ll refund your postage via PayPal once your order has been processed.

If you’d also like to take advantage of our generosity with the sellotape and receive your items ready-wrapped, please indicate this when you check out via PayPal. Thanks.

“It’s the m-o-s-t wuunderful time of yeeear”...well, at least that’s what Andy Williams would have you believe.
If instead you’re finding it just a bit busy and you’re hunting for good things to give, then keep en eye on our Tweets this week and next. We’ve a few specially seasonal offers coming up. You can follow us here.

In the spirit of a little Spunique silliness we decided a bit of a competition is in order - of both the shopkeeping and the practical kind. Up for grabs is a chance to own the winner of this minor showing-off contest.

So, without further ado…. this weekend we’ll pit the honed and toned athleticism of Sebastian Bergne’s ‘BANDIT’ against the solid sturdy gumption of Chris Jarratt’s ‘SLINGSHOT’ in a battle of firing skills including; accuracy, distance, impact, and blammo (not sure what that is yet, but we’ll think of something).

If you’d like to take a punt at securing yourself the winner, each a fine example of British design and fun, then email us with your name and a contact number info@spunique.com. The winner will be selected at random on Monday 17 October.

We sent out our first official press release for the new Spunique site today. What is about hitting the ‘send’ button that puts me in a tailspin? Trusting one’s instincts - as I can confidently do when reviewing the lovely new work we’re beginning to receive - is so much harder to do when it comes to a little self-promotion.

Better get used to it as there’s much more happening here very soon!

As we’ve been preparing to launch the new Spunique site, there have been several things in the press that have caught my attention.

They’re all related to the business of making and included: where the idea of ‘handmade’ sits right now in contrast to the lofty ideal of ‘bespoke’; how the influence of the small scale maker has an increasing bearing on the way mass-produced products look and feel; and how principles from design history perhaps appear to have a renewed appreciation. I was reading (among other things) Justin McGuirk on the rise of the designer-maker, bits and pieces from Wallpaper’s ‘Handmade’ issue, and an interesting 2009 IconEye interview with Enzo Mari (Justin McGuirk again).

Inevitably – when you’re about to relaunch a retail site that provides a presence for and generates commerce from a range of products that mostly exist outside the norms of traditional retail – a little reassurance that there will be a willing and interested group of consumers out there is welcome. If current and past opinion is anything to go by, and the crest of the ‘craft’ wave is to be ridden a little, then we think Spunique has a great future. So we’re enthusiastically looking forward to growing the group of designer-makers and products we showcase and can’t wait to entice you with more very soon.

The long awaited new version of Spunique.com is now online. Its new incarnation is a joint venture between its founder Sebastian Bergne and creative agency Studio Special.

There is a new identity and site designed by Studio Special with increased functionality and networking ability, but it essentially remains true to it’s original simplicity and ethos of providing a unique showcase and selling platform for self produced objects by designers. To be more specific, designers (and makers and creatives) who like to follow the whole process of designing, producing and marketing projects under their own name and without following the traditional retail channels.

The original site was created in 2007 by Industrial designer Sebastian Bergne to promote and sell his own self produced creations that date back to the early 90’s. Since then he expanded it to include work by other British designers working in a similar way by invitation and with a student competition and exhibition at 100% design in 2009.

For Spunique enthusiasts old and new, here is a last glimpse of it’s original Blog style, simple (even clunky) vertical design with speech balloon logo designed in 2006.

A page has been turned and we look forward to a new and exciting period of growth for a community of creative people working in a similar way, brought to the wider world via the internet.