The Coulson Macleod website has just won a Gold. Yay!
We were given the Gold in the national Mumpreneur Website Awards.
We won a Gold because our website is visually pleasing, easy to navigate, has a simple payment process, and provides lots of information on our typographic art.
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We’ve just been approached by Design Refuge to see if we’d be interested in giving one of our typographic prints as a first prize in their competition. Of course we’re interested!
This is a huge honour. Design Refuge is the largest meeting place online for interior design bloggers. Their members comprise the very best bloggers in the design world. The superstars of design blogdom. Our heros. Members include {this is glamourous}, coco&kelley, Bright.Bazaar, Lobster and Swan, Made by Girl, Nick Olsen, and sfgirlbybay.
To win a Coulson Macleod print, Design Refuge members have been given the challenge to describe their style aesthetic.
Members of Design Refuge come from all over the world including Greece, Norway, USA, Canada, Russia, Sweden, UK, Australia, Montenegro, Finland, Serbia, Belgium, Netherlands, Malaysia, France, Thailand, Ireland, Denmark, Israel, and Spain.
We’ll let you know who wins and what typographic print they choose.
Introducing our latest typographic art collection…
From Coulson Macleod’s Rust Collection
From Coulson Macleod’s Rust Collection
We had a lot of fun creating this collection. The steel sheets are naturally weather-rusted. Basically we left them outside. And watched them turn a gorgeous rust brown. As said so beautifully by Doves “My god. It takes an ocean of trust. In the Kingdom of Rust.”
The metal is then over-printed with relief-printed typography and then mounted into a handmade reclaimed wood frame. Once again we use antique Victorian roof timbers.
By using reclaimed wood and rusted metal (the rusting on the steel is completely unpredictable) means each artwork is totally unique.
Now this looks like something you’d find in a junk shop. And covet.
Hooray! Coulson Macleod and our globally loved typographic art are award finalists once again.
We’ve made it to the final four entrants at this years Northamptonshire Business Excellence Awards for International Trader of the Year sponsored by HSBC.
International Trader. Us!
Well we have shipped our typographic prints to Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, and right across the USA.
The winners will be announced at a gala dinner on 18th November.
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Last month we launched our £150 giveaway.
A fun little competition in the run-up to Christmas. All you need to do to enter is to email us a photo of your Coulson Macleod typographic print hanging in your home. Simple.
The competition ends on 10th December.
We’ve now got a dedicated page on our website to show the photos.
Here are the ones so far…
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Great article in the Sunday Telegraph a few weeks back that said we should be very excited, because this season is all about the traditional, mixed with flea-market finds.
And we love flea-market finds. Which is why at Coulson Macleod we try to recreate this with many of our art collections.
Handmade. Hand painted. Reclaimed wood. Distressed typography.
The key theme for the autumn/winter 2010 interior is “heirloom”. The article says we’re craving timeless pieces that will look just as good a decade or two down the line, and retailers are granting our wish with handmade accessories using traditional fabrics.
Which is exactly what we at Coulson Macleod are doing.
We commission local craftsmen to handmake our distressed typographic prints. We combine their traditional skills with our contemporary art. So again, we’re bang on trend!
One of the companies highlighted in the piece is Anta, who we featured back in August. Anta has been a personal love of mine for many years. In fact, here is my collection of their slightly wonky, handpainted, stoneware mugs…
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I’ve written about the gorgeous Tuscan family-run biodynamic farm / holiday lets / mail delivery maestros Fattoria La Vialla twice before.
Today I wanted to share their Christmas product catalogue with you. It arrived last week and before I ripped it open, I took some photos.
The multi-award winning La Vialla do packaging beautifully. They do food beautifully. They do holiday lets beautifully. In fact the entire Lo Franco family are beautiful. I can’t find fault with them. Which is why I keep on writing about La Vialla.
The first tissue wrapped layer with secret door
Bandino Lo Franco, the youngest son
spaghetti the La Vialla way
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Following on from yesterday’s post about fonts, I was reading the November issue of music magazine The Word
and lo and behold there’s an article on classic rock typography. The article, which I’ve shown below also says about Helvetica, “The face that took over the world you just sort of breathe it in. It’s all over the New York subway — American Apparel, BMW, Saab, American Airlines — the swift, clean, postwar modern typeface. So it’s perfect for an obvious, commercially ambitious act like Oasis. Interestingly they dropped it for two albums — which bombed — but brought it back for their Greatest Hits.”
And Futura, “The 1920s German typeface used on the Volkswagen ads. Influenced by Bauhaus, lots of artistic and intellectual baggage — perfect for the intelligent college band Vampire Weekend claim to be. It was used on the moon plaque almost certainly because of its name — it is futuristic, very clear, the pointed Vs, the sharp angles, the sci-fi connection.”
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Great article in this Sunday’s Telegraph…
Nigel says, “You may not know it, but you care about fonts…” He hadn’t quite realised how much he cared about fonts until he read ‘Just My Type’ a book by Simon Garfield.
Ikea’s old font
“New York is wall-to-wall Helvetica.” A “cool and confident, neutral and honest” font
Nigel goes on to say, “Once you get into the wonderful world of fonts it soon becomes an unhealthy obsession. Once the typographic addiction takes hold, it becomes impossible to walk past a shopfront or read an advertisement without trying to identify the font.”
According to Alice Rawsthorn, design critic of the International Herald Tribune and a former director of the Design Museum, there’s a far greater interest in fonts now than ever before.
Yay!
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Once again Coulson Macleod’s typographic art has been chosen by interiors style bible Elle Decoration to feature in their fabulous magazine.
ELLE Decoration, November 2010 issue.
ELLE Decoration, November 2010 issue.
Elle Decoration chose ‘The Roar of Tree and Crack of Branches’ typographic print from our Winter Trees collection.
We hand make the frame and panelled backboard from reclaimed wood. Actually the wood used to be Victorian roof timbers. How cool is that? We paint the wood and print on top with distressed image and typography.
Each artwork is totally unique. And totally unique to Coulson Macleod.
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