WE MADE THIS LIMITED

ABOUT WE MADE THIS LIMITED

‘In a quiet corner of We Made This, I’m rifling through a pile of beautiful print. It’s a treat to see such a range of processes and finishes being put to good use – and placed at the fore, through an economical approach to typography and layout that places each item’s object qualities on an equal footing to the design itself. The work on the table today is just a small portion of the plethora of print produced by Alistair Hall, working under the banner of We Made This – the practice he founded back in 2004.

We Made This specialises in print design – a medium that has always held a special interest for Hall. His first client out of art college was Benwells, the Bermondsey-based print finisher, after they produced the catalogue for his graduation show: an ambitious screw-bound book, with rub-off foil on the cover that revealed a lasting message as it wore down over time. “It was a lot of work – we sort of threw everything at it,” he recalls, “but we didn’t have much budget, so about fifteen of us went into Benwells in the days before the show to bind them all up ourselves, by hand.” That hands-on enthusiasm made an impression, and they’ve maintained a working relationship ever since.

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And his 1969 logotype for film company Gamma Film, with its repeated ‘m’ mimicking a strip of celluloid:

Welcome to We Made This. We are a graphic design studio in Clerkenwell, London, specialising in thoughtful, simple, beautiful communication.