We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 20/09/2026A glorious morning riding around London, visiting three of the London Cycling Festival hubs - in Westminster, City of London and Tower Hamlets. The festival, with branding by We Made This, has rides, stalls and events right across the city. Great to see everyone out enjoying themselves 😁. 031
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 16/07/2026After more than 15 years, Hoxton Street Monster Supplies will close this Saturday. You’ve got until then to get a final jar of Thickest Human Snot! Huge thanks to everyone who worked & volunteered with the shop. And to everyone who shopped there too, and thus supported the Ministry of Stories! 130
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 24/06/2026Typewriter Manuals has pdfs of two Caligraph manuals, but neither feature the sentence. The manual for Caligraph No.3 does mention a Book of Caligraph Lessons – but I can't find that anywhere! Is it in it? Or in a different Caligraph pamphlet? site.xavier.edu/polt/typewri... 210
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 24/06/2026@aresluna.org Typewriter folks, I need help! I'm trying to track down the early instances in print of the ‘Quick Brown Fox’ pangram. It occurs in Illustrative Shorthand by Mrs L Bronson (1888). She notes it comes from a Caligraph typewriter pamphlet, but not which one! archive.org/details/illu... 141
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 10/03/2026This book about Gardners’ Market Sundries, the wonderful paper bag and sundries shop in Spitalfields, looks truly wonderful. If you’d like a copy / want to back it, there are just ten days left to do so. Please share far and wide 😀. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/gardners-b... 020
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/06/2025Picked this up on ebay recently: On Your Bike: The Guide to Cycling in London. Published by @londoncycling.bsky.social and Friends of the Earth, June 1983 (42 years ago!) Written, edited and designed by Owen Watson. Headings set in Kabel Black. Album of scans: www.flickr.com/photos/alist... 000
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 10/06/2025Writing a thing about QR codes. Where d’you generate yours? Any great / terrible experiences? 200
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 06/06/2025The third of my recent projects for @londoncycling.bsky.social - their Dare to Dream! campaign, encouraging people to push Sadiq Khan to take action and be bolder on cycling. Read more here: www.wemadethis.co.uk/work/lcc-dar... 010
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 06/06/2025More recent design work for @londoncycling.bsky.social - identity and materials for their brilliant Share the Joy fund. Read more here: www.wemadethis.co.uk/work/lcc-sha... 010
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 27/05/2025The @londoncycling.bsky.social London Cycling Festival took place this weekend, supported by Lime Bikes. Loads of cyclists out and about in the majority of London’s boroughs, enjoying traffic-free streets and led rides. Read about my work on the identity here: www.wemadethis.co.uk/work/london-... 000
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/02/2025And here’s Prog 500, from 13 December 1986 (I was 13 when I bought this). Congratulations on 48 years! 021
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 17/02/2025This is perfection. Thank you. And here’s one to add, affixed to the dashboard of a 1927 4 1/2 ltr Bentley called Bessa. 170
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 17/02/2025“A cold douche from the fountain of truth“ – a description of the nine o‘clock news, in a piece by Sir Ernest Baker from the BBC Year Book, 1944 www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/BBC/BBC-A... cc. @iandunt.bsky.social 010
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 26/11/2024Deeply sad to hear that Marie and Will at Old Town clothing are shutting up shop. Their High Rise Trousers are my absolute favourites. www.old-town.co.uk 020
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 25/11/2024The new NYCFC lettering from @frerejones.bsky.social & @ninastoessinger.bsky.social is 🔥. (Via under consideration.com) 151
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 25/11/2024Well this looks just glorious: Type Archived: A visual journey through typographic history. “The definitive account of the legendary Type Archive provides a stunning visual tour of traditional typefounding, tracing the origins of typography and the printed word.” vol.co/collections/... Backed ✅. 031
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/11/2024Last summer, the shop opened its second pop-up in Leadenhall Market, together with a whole range of new products, including Earl Grey Tea – made from real Earls. www.wemadethis.co.uk/work/hoxton-... 110
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/11/2024Last year, the shop extended its letter writing service with the Letter Writing Packs, which allow young humans to write to Vampires, Dragons, Gremlins, Werewolves and Yeti. www.wemadethis.co.uk/work/hoxton-... 100
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/11/2024In 2022, just in time for Halloween, the shop opened its first pop-up in London’s historic Leadenhall Market, and launched a host of new products, including the very popular Bloody Ketchup (Type AB negative). www.wemadethis.co.uk/work/hoxton-... 100
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/11/2024A couple of years later, in 2018, the shop launched its own postal service, allowing humans to write to lonely monsters around the world. www.wemadethis.co.uk/work/hsms-po... 100
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/11/2024In 2016, the Hoxton Street Monster Supplies Cookbook was published, with recipes – including Mucus Tarts and Pickled Eyeballs – adapted for humans as well as monsters. www.wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2016/09... 110
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/11/2024In 2015 the shop’s website was completely updated, with a translation function for Humans, Mummies, Vampire Bats, Werewolves and Zombies. www.wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2015/04... 100
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/11/2024It was also named the Number 1 Kids’ Shop in London by Time Out magazine. 110
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/11/2024In February 2014, the shop popped up at Liberty. www.wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2014/02... 100
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/11/2024In November 2013 we created Milk Tooth Chocolate (smooth milk chocolate with delicious chunks of delicately roasted milk teeth), made in collaboration with Divine Chocolate, with a story by Francesca Simon to be completed on the inside of the wrapper. www.wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2014/10... 100
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/11/2024Later that year, we collaborated with the talented folks at Tatty Devine to create a range of monstrous jewellery, including this piece made from sustainably-sourced human bone. www.wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2012/11... 100
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/11/2024In 2012 the shopfront got a beautiful makeover thanks to signwriter Nick Garratt. www.wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2012/11... 100
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/11/2024In May 2012, a range of Salts Made From Tears was added to the range, based on an idea by the good folks at architecture practice Studioweave. www.wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2012/05... 100
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/11/2024The shop stocks a full range of products for the Living, Dead and Undead, including the best-selling range of Tinned Fears. 100
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/11/202419 November 2010 – the shop opened to customers. (Of course, it first opened in 1818. But it disappeared for a while in the early 1960s – no-one is entirely sure where it went…) www.wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2010/11... 100
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk · 19/11/2024Hoxton Street Monster Supplies – Purveyor of Quality Goods for Monsters of Every Kind – opened its doors 14 years ago today 🤯. Here are just a few highlights 👇 150