About

I started Half Serious Mugs for a simple reason: most funny mugs aren't funny. They're a bit of clip-art and a tired pun about Mondays, and somehow they still cost thirty dollars.

I thought I could do better. Whether I have is, fairly, up to you. But the brief was clear from day one: the joke has to actually land, it has to land in about one second, and it has to look good sitting on a desk you have to sit at anyway.

So that's what this is. Dry, slightly cynical, occasionally savage humour on a mug you'll genuinely use. Every design is printed in Australia, on demand, which means nothing sits in a warehouse going stale and nothing gets shipped halfway around the planet to reach you.

No drop-shipped mystery ceramics. No fake reviews. No "only 2 left" when there are, in fact, infinite. Just mugs that are about half serious — which is, on most days, the correct amount.

— David, founder, Half Serious Mugs