Welcome to We Made This – a graphic design studio in London, specialising in thoughtful, simple, beautiful and sustainable communication.
An identity and materials for the London Cycling Festival.
The design of a hoarding for the new Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital, part of the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
An estimated 40,000 bicycles are stolen in London every year. That’s a staggering amount. It puts off people who might otherwise cycle – and a significant portion of people who have a bike stolen simply stop cycling altogether. London Cycling Campaign put together a report – Broken Locks, Broken Promises – which examines the data […]
If you’re over 50, you might remember that you were once able to return your used glass bottles – say Lucozade, or R White’s Lemonade – to the shops, to get back a small deposit (about 2½p back in the ’70s), which was included in the purchase price. You might also have had your milk […]
There’s a bit of buzz about this week being the 30 year anniversary of the release of Baz Luhrmann’s film William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, and the film is also getting a re-release in cinemas. Although – shouldn’t it be next year? The film was originally released in the US in November 1996, and in the […]
It’s cake time! This month marks the 20 year anniversary of the We Made This blog, which I began writing on 6 March 2006. The blog originally lived on the Typepad blogging platform (which existed from 2003 to 2025) at wemadethis.typepad.com. Then in June 2010 I migrated it across to my new website, wemadethis.co.uk/blog, where […]
‘The books you’ve designed for us are unbelievably beautiful. A fantastic job.’
Penguin Random House