Tinned Fear

So it seems, unfortunately for London’s monster community, that Spring has arrived. The days are getting longer, the sun is out, and the painfully joyous sounds of birdsong, human laughter and...

Secret Cinema 20 – All G.O.O.D.

Watching a film at the cinema is largely a passive activity, right? You sit back in your seat at the local fleapit or multiplex, munching on snacks, and let the film wash over you. The film ends,...

Ministry of Stories at No.10

How excellent is this? Last week a group of young writers from the Ministry of Stories took over the state dining room at 10 Downing Street, hosting a ‘creative cabinet meeting’. They helped the...

Master it – How to cook today

We’ve just taken delivery of one of the first copies of Master it – How to cook today, the new book we recently designed for the fantastic chef Rory O’Connell. Rory is one of the loveliest guys you...

Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis

Sebastião Salgado’s incredible new show, Genesis, opened recently at the Natural History Museum, and we went along over the weekend to take a look. The exhibition is the result of eight years work,...

London Transport Museum Acton Depot

We made our way over to London Transport Museum’s Acton Depot yesterday – it’s where they house the majority of the collection that’s not on show at the museum itself. As part of the tube’s 150th...

Designs of the Year 2013

We nipped along to the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year show last weekend. Self-styled as “the Oscars of the design world”, it’s a curious beast of a show, pulling together “the most innovative...

Rando

Over the weekend we had a bit of a play with the new iPhone photo sharing app Rando, produced by digital design studio Ustwo as an exercise in “just fucking doing it” – getting something up and...

Museum of Broken Relationships

Alistair was out in Zagreb over the weekend, and stopped in at the fantastic Museum of Broken Relationships to have a look around. The whole content of the museum is crowdsourced: broken-hearted...

7 years old

The We Made This blog is seven years old today. As a seven year old , we can be expected to “enjoy sharing knowledge with others… display a longer attention span… frequently ask adults and peers...

Suburban Stormtroopers

This is what Alistair was getting up to a couple of weekends ago. Because dressing up as Stormtroopers is fun. Photos by Angus Stewart, uniforms by Millennium Costumes.

The Story 2013

Last Friday we were lucky enough to go along to The Story 2013 – a rather wonderful little one-day conference about stories and storytelling organised by Matt Locke. The Ministry of Stories were...

Mummy!

She showed you how to tie your shoes. She showed you how to do your teeth. How to do your times tables. How to iron a shirt. She held your hand when you were feeling scared, and she mopped your...

Poster Art 150

We dropped in to the London Transport Museum over the weekend to check out their truly fantastic new show, Poster Art 150. Put on to celebrate the 150th birthday of the London Underground, the...

Towards a new iconography

Flickr’s new iPhone / iPad App

Well, it’s been a longtime coming, but Flickr have finally pulled a decent iPhone app out of the bag, and it’s looking Instagram square in the face. It combines Flickr’s great sharing & viewing...

God’s Own Junkyard

We nipped into Chris Bracey’s God’s Own Junkyard in Soho yesterday – what a treasure trove! Bracey creates neon signage for fashion and film, and the exhibition / pop-up shop collects together a...

Wikipedia

Wikipedia’s great isn’t it? How many of its articles do you think you’ve looked at on it this year? 50? 100? More perhaps? Wikipedia runs no advertising, and receives no government funds. As its...

We Made This Christmas Gift Guide 2012

It’s been a while since we’ve done this, but it felt like time we did it again, so we’ve put together a little list of some bits and bobs that would make for good Christmas presents for the...

A city full of photographs

If you’re into photography, then London is a great place to be right now. There’s a wealth of fantastic exhibitions on in some of the city’s major galleries, most of them running right through to...

Revamped

Sorry, we know we’ve been blithering on about Hoxton Street Monster Supplies a lot, but we’ve just been doing a heck of a lot of stuff with them lately. Since there’s been such a lot of new stuff...

Tatty Devine for Hoxton Street Monster Supplies

The wonderful people over at Tatty Devine have been beavering away on a fantastic new limited-edition range of jewellery for Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, released just in time for Christmas. The...

Fuse Wire

We nipped over to Holborn this weekend for the latest Ephemera Fair. Lots of lovely stuff as always. (Full size pics over at Alistair’s Ephemera Flickr set) The next fair, one of the big ones, is...

Monstrous cards

When an email doesn’t cut it, and howling at the moon is just a waste of breath, it’s time to send a card. So we’ve created a set of greetings cards for Hoxton Street Monster Supplies. There are...

Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite!

So this is rather fine. A facsimile version of the playbill poster that inspired John Lennon to write Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite! from Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, printed by the...

The Ministry Needs You!

How would you like to create your own version of the Ministry of Stories and your own version of its shop, Hoxton Street Monster Supplies? We’ve rambled on about both of them on here at great...

Union Jack 2014

Yesterday saw the signing of the Edinburgh Agreement, which announces a referendum on Scottish Independence in 2014, and thus the possibility of Scotland leaving the UK and becoming independent –...

Letterpress: something to say

Mid-October already? Ay caramba. How did that happen? The days, weeks, and months are just flying past… Anyhoo, the folks at the wonderful St Bride Library have been in touch to flag up their...

Curiosity

360 degree panorama of the Curiosity rover on Mars. Take a look in full screen. Mind-blowing. (Not quite sure how official this is – it’s been put together by the folks at 360pano.eu, but doesn’t...

Central Saint Martins Graphics Summer School

Each year Central Saint Martins runs a Graphics Summer School, which gives students of varied abilities and experience the chance to try their hand at four disciplines: typography, illustration,...