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We are very excited to announce we have commissioned revered London-based Graphic Designer Supermundane to design our storefront and window display on Carnaby Street! The striking shopfront display features Supermundane’s signature symmetrical designs across a hand-painted mural, ‘LON-DON’ totems and two colourful pigeons – all tied together by the phrase ‘London Is For All’. Supermundane says: “I’ve… Read More
It’s here! Our brand new Carnaby Street storefront design for A/W 2016 We’re delighted to announce that London-based illustrator Alice Bowsher is the latest artist to take on our unique Carnaby storefront commission! Briefed only with ‘London’, Alice chose to bring some of the city’s most loved icons to the exterior and windows in her charming monochrome illustrative style – featuring David Bowie, Amy Winehouse, Grayson Perry, Her… Read More
This weekend, We Built This City and 10 x of the artists whose work features in our Carnaby store collection made the headlines on Telegraph Travel. “10 reasons why London is the world’s most inspiring city” is a dream headline for us and our community of talented creatives and we couldn’t be more pleased for their work… Read More
Meet Andre Rostant. Andre is our local Big Issue vendor and has arguably the friendliest smile in Soho! Andre recently approached us about selling some of his poems about London. We worked together to turn them into a series of 4 x postcards – now available to buy exclusively at We Built This City. But that’s… Read More
WBTC founder Alice was recently invited to be interviewed by Anna Willatt of travel & arts magazine House of Coco. Learn more about how WBTC came about, Alice’s background, the team that make up We Built This City, the first 18 months of the London souvenir revolution on Carnaby and much more.. You can read the whole interview here.… Read More
This month we’re featured in the Shopping section of London Visitors magazine. Distributed at British Embassies internationally as well as an abundance of hotels, transport hubs and tourist attractions across London – we’re pleased that news of the London souvenir revolution will be spread to independent travellers as they plan their stay in the capital. “The antidote… Read More
The whole WBTC team have been long-time fans of We Heart design blog . Covering all things art, lifestyle, travel and everything cool in-between – we couldn’t be more pleased to find ourselves featured amongst the pages of their aptly titled City Notes section. “Alt-souvenir pioneers We Built This City have been going from strength to strength…” Read the whole… Read More
We’re delighted to have been featured in this July’s issue of Creative Review. “With work from local artists & illustrators. We Built This City offers a welcome alternative to typical London souvenir shop tat” – Rachael Steven, Senior Writer at Creative Review. The double-page spread documenting the London souvenir revolution so far features photos of the WBTC Carnaby store interior… Read More
We Built This City founder Alice was asked to share her top London Map Art for a Father’s Day gift special for ‘The Chosen Few’ column in today’s Shortlist Magazine… 1. If Places Were Faces – Heretic Studio 2. 24 Hringlaga Lundun Milur – Kristjana S Williamns 3. Map of Central London – Ursula Hitz 4. London Music… Read More
Earlier this year we were approached by the organisers of SohoCreate festival – to participate in their incredible week-long celebration of all things creative in the heart of the capital. After reading about it last year we couldn’t wait to get involved – and we’re very pleased that we did! What an inspiring week it turned out to be…… Read More
As we continue to celebrate HRH The Queen’s 90th Birthday throughout the summer – we’re pleased to have been selected for Time Out‘s royal shopping round-up this weekend. We Built This City representing Carnaby at the top of a list that includes retail heavyweights Marks and Spencer and Fortnum & Mason. Woohoo! Read the whole article here.… Read More
Committed to showcasing the talents of our creative community, we have invited another of our gifted artists to create a bespoke design for the WBTC storefront canvas. We couldn’t be more happy that Rugman – fresh from exhibiting his solo show at the Saatchi Gallery – agreed to live spray-paint the exterior of our new home at 46 Carnaby… Read More
We’re over the moon to have made it into The Guardian today as part of the events programme for upcoming creative festival Soho Create. Grab a copy to read more on how we’re getting involved in this year’s event – plus a summary of the WBTC story so far… Roll on the revolution! … Read More
On Thursday the 5th May we were invited to take a table at Grosvenor House for the annual Gift Retailer Awards (aka The Greats). In sophisticated surroundings we took our seats, quickly discovering we were amongst good company with the likes of John Lewis, London Science Museum, Oliver Bonas, Fenwicks, The Imperial War Museum and Paperchase… Read More
We’re taking a very short break while essential landlord maintenance works are carried out on our Carnaby Street store. We’ll be announcing our Carnaby re-opening date before you know it, but if your souvenir appetite needs satisfying sooner we can still help… Our customer concierge team will be working throughout, so if you’ve seen something in… Read More
This Saturday 16th April sees independent record shops across the UK come together to celebrate Record Store Day 2016 Soho has always had a special place in the heart of London’s music fanatics and with some of the finest and longest standing independent stores in London there’s no better place to be for RSD16 this… Read More
Last night, WBTC founder Alice spoke at Guardian Masterclasses alongside pop-up experts We Are Pop Up and Rola Wala founder Mark Wright. Drawing from her own experiences launching We Built This City on Carnaby Street, Alice took an enthusiastic room of budding entrepreneurs through some top tips on ‘How To Launch A Pop-Up Shop’. Thanks to everyone who attended the class, especially those who shared… Read More
Disrupts Magazine is a new title for the start up scene – we first met editor Charlotte Robert at the Dot London Small Business Awards where she expressed keen interest in learning more about our London souvenir revolution… You can read the full article here… Read More
WBTC founder Alice was recently invited by our friends at iZettle to co-host a talk at The Retail Business Technology Expo 2016 – Europe’s leading retail event. Thanks to everyone who attended the session to hear more about the We Built This City story and how innovative payment technology has contributed along the way. If… Read More
Where London magazine recently caught up with WBTC founder Alice for a chat about how the London souvenir revolution is progressing! Here’s what they had to say: “This souvenir shop capture’s the city’s indie spirit” Read the full article here… Read More