Well Made Studio

We are an adaptable and dependable design studio working for commercial lifestyle, arts and publishing brands. We deliver brand strategy with a focus on identity and content. We put user experience at the centre of beautiful digital design. We’ve spent 10 years helping our clients understand how good design impacts upon them and their industry.

We like to work with people who understand how valuable good design and collaboration can be to launch a business, sell a product or build an audience. We like to build loyal relationships with hands-on, engaged clients who are as passionate about their business as we are about ours.

what she came to talk to us about?

The whole subject was about internships and for us students to not do them. The speaker said that it would be better for us not to go on an internship just get to the experience, because companies are getting free work and that is not right. She advised us, if a company asks you to do anything then get a contract with them, because if a company asks you to do anything and you are working for them but not in a contract you can get caught out with doing work that you really should be getting paid for. 

The change in name of the company

The company used to be called Mercy, then changing the make to 'Well Made'. They changed it because they wanted the name to reflect the companies ideology and Mercy was not covering what they were doing or were they were going.

Another reason why the company decided to change its name was because it was a more clear definition and more intuative to find via a search engine

Delivery of her message.

Gemma when delivering what she had to say was quite forceful throughout the lecture, she wanted us to adopt a negative mindset towards internships, however, many people have said some internships are paid and are paid at a fair rate. When researching about internships there are a lot of unpaid positions but you have to think what you want to get out of it. Overall i enjoyed the lecture as it was informative and she backed up everything she had said.