Welcome to We Made This – a graphic design studio in London, specialising in thoughtful, simple, beautiful and sustainable communication.
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 […]
A selection of pieces designed for the Wynkyn de Worde Society, featuring a logo with the name of the Society used to create the rays of a sun.
London Street Signs, written, photographed and designed by Alistair Hall, and published by Batsford, is a visual history of London's street nameplates.
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 world is in a pretty dire state at the moment. The rise of the far right; Trump; AI (and its associated job losses); the cost of living crisis; Ukraine, Gaza and now Iran; and generally ridiculous levels of bullshit and misinformation, particularly as weaponised against immigrants and the trans community. It’s a lot, right? […]
‘The books you’ve designed for us are unbelievably beautiful. A fantastic job.’
Penguin Random House
