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 Majesty and plenty of pigeons, of course!

The good folk at It’s Nice That revealed the announcement of our collaboration, documenting Alice’s design and install process – you can read more here or better still, come down and take a look for yourself!

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“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 to have been selected to prove this incredibly valid point!

You can read the full article here.

Featuring the incredible work and inspiring words of… Rugman, Ciara Phelan, Yoni Alter, Tirso Sanchez, Jesse Richards, Oscar Francis, Lucy Loves This, Heretic Studio, Claudia Borfiga & Jayson Lilley.

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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 not all…

Last week we received an email from The Poetry Library at London’s Southbank Centre requesting a set of Andre’s poem postcards for their archives. GO ANDRE!

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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.

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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 to souvenir shops” – Vicky Huntley, London Visitor magazine, July 2016

You can read the whole article here (page 57)

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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 article here.

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“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 and exterior – as well as plans for launching our online store later this summer and an image of one of our best-selling limited edition prints; ‘If Places Were Faces’ by Heretic Studio.

If you can’t get your hands on a physical copy – you can read the whole interview here with more of our creative community name-checked.

We’re so proud of this one!!

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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 Map – London Music Map

All prints available to buy here at our 1 WEEK ONLY pop-up online shop!

http://shortlist.webuilt-thiscity.com/

Or at We Built This City, 46 Carnaby Street, London, W1F 9PS

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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…

On Tuesday night we hosted an Open House event at our Carnaby Street store – inviting over 100 curious customers (old and new) through our doors for a night of creativity.  With a ‘Pimp my Pigeon’ workshop hosted by our friends at Scout Editions, live portraits from Captain Smith Design, live tote bag printing, beers courtesy of Two Fingers Brewing plus talks from the WBTC team – the evening went off with a bang!  Thanks to everyone who joined us.

On Friday, WBTC founder Alice was invited to sit on a discussion panel entitled ‘Start Up Life’ where she was joined by fellow creative start up business leaders from Pizza Pilgrims, Pokit & The Dots.  An insightful and jam-packed session to close the festival.

As well as participating in the festival programme ourselves – WBTC team members also attended a number of sessions throughout the week – meeting the likes of inspirational business heavyweights Jo Malone MBE and Sir John Hegarty.

If you missed out, be sure to sign up to the SohoCreate mailing list for next year’s festival programme announcements – we can’t wait to be involved again in 2017!

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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.

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