citylikeyou — London / Alistair Hall

Alistair Hall is an award-winning graphic designer based in London. He set up his design studio, We Made This, in 2004, and specialises in thoughtful, simple, beautiful graphic design for print. He has made work with clients including Penguin Books, Historic Royal Palaces, Jeremy Tankard Typography, the National Trust and John Lewis. Alistair is also a co-founder and art director of the children’s literacy charity Ministry of Stories, and its fantastical shop, Hoxton Street Monster Supplies. Alistair has been writing about design and visual culture at wemadethis.co.uk/blog for over ten years. He also teaches at Central Saint Martins and The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design; and has given talks about his practice across the UK and overseas. He’s currently researching a book about London’s street nameplates.

http://www.wemadethis.co.uk/

Graphic Designer Art Director Photographer

Current city: London

wemadethis.co.uk

London / Shop

The fantastical shop front for the children’s literacy charity, the Ministry of Stories – which offers one-to-one writing tuition for local kids. The shop sells ‘Bespoke and Everyday Items for the Living, Dead and Undead’, including Thickest Human Snot, Compacted Earwax, and Tinned Fear. (And all their products make perfect presents for humans.) All proceeds go to the charity.

London / Shop

Stationery, homewares and a few clothes. All simple classics.

London / Library

The St Bride Foundation is the home of the St Bride Library, an incredible resource of printing history, in the form of books, printed ephemera, and tools from the trade. It also hosts many fantastic talks each year – check their website for details.

London / Park

London is blessed with many fine parks, but Brockwell is a real jewel in south London. A short walk or bus ride from Brixton, or right by Herne Hill overground station, the park includes large grassy areas, the fantastic Brockwell Lido (a vast open-air pool – hectic mid-summer unless you get in early - a 7am swim is utterly blissful), tennis courts, a bowling green, a BMX track, a mini-railway, a secret garden, and a few newly landscaped ponds. Perfect for a lazy summer day.

London / Photographer

Wanda Martin is a London based photographer and film maker, working in the fashion and music industry. Having graduated with MA Hons. at London College of Fashion in photography, her clients include magazines such as VOGUE, Numero, Dazed, i-D, Wonderland, Glamour, Marie Claire, Instyle China; brands such as Marc Jacobs, Dior, Burberry, Diesel, Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY, Pretty Green. She is originally from Hungary, she also graduated with BA Hons. at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Fine Art Photography and at Eotvos Lorand University Budapest in Aesthetics, Film History and Theory. These studies deeply inspire her up until today in her personal, conceptual photo projects such as ‘Nights Out’ documentary series published on i-D, and ‘Lovers’ series on DAZED digital. Wanda Martin worked with artists such as Sergei Polunin, ballet dancer, record labels, Atlantic Records and Sony Music and musicians such as Zara Larsson, Tom Walker, Sean Lennon, and bands such as The Horrors, Eagles of Death Metal, Sundara Karma or Fat White Family. Her style can be described as the combination of romantic painterly beauty and rock'n'roll attitude. She became a European CANON Ambassadors early 2019.

London / Creative Director

I'm a multidisciplinary designer and co-founder of Horror Vacui Studio. A creative design studio & consultancy specializing in brand expression and visual identity within fashion, luxury and lifestyle.

London / Designer

Interior Designer

London / Illustrator

I’m an illustrator, maker and art director based in London and work with photographers to create images for clients such as the V&A, Orange, The New York Times, Creative Review and Wallpaper*. As part of Peepshow Collective I work collaboratively with the other members on exhibitions, animation and installation projects. Portrait by Jenny Lewis.

London / Creative Director

Design Director at Thames & Hudson

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