P&KG have just uploaded a new Kustom Blog here which they hope you will find interesting and informative.  They will be updating this on a regular basis with interesting You Tube clips, events, happenings and advance information on forthcoming editions of the magazine so if you are interested in pinstriping etc you might want to check it out.

With all the vast panorama of art prints for sale on our ecommerce website at Artists UK it is surprising that one of our best sellers this Christmas so far has been MC Escher jigsaw puzzles .  Why anyone would want their MC Escher picture in lots of tiny bits rather than in one piece is a bit of a puzzle in itself.  It makes you wonder doesn’t it.  If we tore up all the Limited Edition prints and posters into small pieces before we sent them out would they sell better?  

Over the years at Artists UK we have improved our ecommerce software for www.artistsuk.co.uk several times to give our customers a better shopping experience.  We’ve made the site work faster, smoother and made it more logically organised.  It has a powerful SEARCH facility and there are buttons all over the place allowing customers to contact us by email if they have questions.  We then built up this information site with a brand new logo designed by the excellent team at Farbweiss Media in Germany who also designed the website for us.  Somehow along the way we never got round to updating the original Artists UK logo and we realised for some time how static and dated it was looking, especially compared to the Artists UK DotNet logo so we’ve finally gopt round to vamping it up into a more dynamic modern version.  We hope you like it.  You can see it here.

We are coming up to Christmas yet again!  As usual Artists UK will have a dispatch on each of the last posting dates for Christmas 2008 so as long as an order is in before the last posting date and the items are in stock it should go out by the last posting date with plenty of time to get there for Christmas.  You can always email us if you want to check if it will reach you by Christmas although you can normally assume that if you can order it then it is in stock and if there were any unusual problem you can be sure we would email you immediately.  The last posting dates for Christmas 2008 are as follows:

Last posting dates for Christmas 2008 within the UK -

• Last First Class Recorded posting date for Christmas 2008 = Saturday 20th December (but our last collection will be on Friday 19th December)
• Last Special Delivery posting date for Christmas 2008 = Tuesday 23rd December (best to order early to avoid having to upgrade to Special Delivery)

Last airmail posting date for Christmas 2008 for Western Europe = Friday 12th December

Last airmail posting date for Christmas 2008 for Japan, USA, Canada and Eastern Europe (Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Malta and Iceland) = Wednesday 10th December

Last posting date for Christmas 2008 for South & Central America, Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Far East, Asia, New Zealand and Australia = Friday 5th December

Most orders are dispatched by airmail so these last posting dates for Christmas 2008 should apply for almost all orders.  Large framed items for delivery overseas (over 61 x 46 cms) will normally go by courier and we will contact you by email if this is the case (and it is explained in the product description).  Any questions about ordering by the last posting date for your area in time for Christmas 2008, just click that button and send us an email.  If you want to go browsing to look for Christmas presents then click here.  We are not currently able to supply to the following destinations - The Moon, Mars, Venus or in fact anywhere off-planet so a big sorry to all you wonderful alien beings, you’ll have to get your stuff from the Betelgeuse Intergalactic Store again, even if their customer service isn’t as good as ours