Dastardly & Muttley
Independent Studio · Swansea, Wales
§ About — The Studio Est. Swansea · 2022

The high street
deserves better.

We build brands for the businesses no-one else takes seriously.

The corner café, the high-street florist, the second-album band — they carry something no corporate can manufacture: a real story, rooted in a real place. We believe every independent business deserves to look extraordinary. Not eventually. Now.

Dastardly & Muttley studio at Elysium Gallery Studios, Swansea
Elysium Gallery Studios — Swansea, Wales 2026
§ 01 — The Studio
A letter from us.
On why we exist

Independent businesses carry stories that corporate brands pay millions to fake. The corner café that's been there for twenty years. The band that's just about to break through. The market trader who genuinely knows everything about what they sell.

All they need is the right visual language to tell that story. That's what we do — web design, graphic design, photography, print. The complete picture, built around what makes you genuinely different.

No templates. No off-the-shelf solutions. No agency theatre. We take on a small number of projects at a time so every one gets the full version of us.

Dastardly & Muttley Creative Studio · Swansea, Wales · Est. 2022
§ 02 — How we work
Things we believe.
Studio principles
01

Local is not small.

Independent doesn't mean underpowered. The best work we've made has been for businesses two miles from here — and it's gone up against national brands without blinking. Scale is not the point. Distinctiveness is.

02

Opinion over options.

We don't show you forty-seven directions and ask which one you like. We show you the right one and tell you why it works. You can push back; we'll fight our corner. That tension is where the good stuff comes from.

03

One brief, one system.

Web, print, photography — all under one roof, all from one brief. A brand that holds together from the screen to the shopfront to the side of a van, without you having to herd three separate agencies.

04

Nothing off-the-shelf.

Every project is built from scratch. We don't have templates, frameworks, or preset solutions. If someone else could have made the same thing, it's not done.

§ Studio
Index
50+
Projects shipped
04
Disciplines, in-house
Est.
'22
Founded — Elysium Gallery
100%
Independent & self-funded
Q3
Now booking — 2026
SA1
8PE
Swansea, South Wales
§ 03 — Location
Where we sit.
Studio & contact

We work from Elysium Gallery Studios in Swansea — right in the heart of South Wales' creative community.

Address

Elysium Gallery Studios
210 High Street
Swansea, SA1 1PE

Hours

Mon — Fri
09:00 — 18:00 GMT

§ 04 — Start a project

Have something
worth making?

Get in touch
Studio

Elysium Gallery Studios
210 High Street
Swansea, SA1 1PE

Hours

Mon — Fri
09:00 — 18:00 GMT

Status

Booking Q3 2026

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