Promising to spread mental wellbeing through non-threatening design, Sweet Dreams Security products combine kitsch and crime prevention in, for example, Victorian railings with bunnies and penguins in place of spikes and padlocks shaped like Teddy bears. Are the desire for kitsch and the demand for security, contradictory impulses or analogous symptoms of a fearful society? Sweet Dreams Security is both a business and a research project investigating paranoia and its relationship with retail therapy. Matthias Megyeri studied Design Products MA at the Royal College of Art, UK, and Visual Communication at the HfG/ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany. Matthias now works as an artist and designer in East London. In 2003, he formed a commercial company and brand to intervene in the home security market. Megyeris witty re-workings of everyday domestic defences critique the culture of fear that also constitutes a billion pound industry. Selected Exhibitions include Dont Panic! (Architecture Foundation); UK Jack, OK! (Colette, Paris; Comme des Gar