Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art is in the Christ­mas issue of Nor­we­gian magazine Elle Interior.

As you can see Elle Interior has fea­tured a print from our Winter Trees collection.

Coulson Macleod’s hand­made frame and pan­elled back­board made from reclaimed wood and prin­ted with dis­tressed image and typography

Coulson Macleod’s hand­made frame and pan­elled back­board made from reclaimed wood and prin­ted with dis­tressed image and typography

Our hand­made Winter Tree prints are made from reclaimed wood (the tim­ber star­ted out life as Vic­torian roof tim­bers to be pre­cise). We then white­wash the wood and over-print with a dis­tressed image and dis­tressed typo­graphy. Well it wouldn’t be a Coulson Macleod without some dis­tressed typo­graphy would it?

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Every time we flick through an interi­ors magazine we stop to drool over a Plain Eng­lish advert. Com­pared to all the other bespoke kit­chens you see advert­ised (and there are a lot) it’s Plain Eng­lish that leaps out. So simple. So beau­ti­ful. So very Coulson Macleod.

Coulson Macleod is delighted to announce a brand new stock­ist: Hirst & Hirst.

Hirst & Hirst is a gor­geous new interi­ors shop in Oakham (in the very pretty and tiny Eng­lish county of  Rutland).

And they will be selling our typo­graphic art. Yip­pee!

Hirst & Hirst sell an eclectic mix of con­tem­por­ary home­ware and gifts with a strong emphasis on style. Yep! That’ll be us then.

Many of the items in store have been fea­tured in magazines such as Elle Dec­or­a­tion and Easy Liv­ing. Yep! We’ve been fea­tured in both of those magazines.

Some of the design­ers include Snowden Flood, whose work has been com­mis­sioned by the Tate and Lon­don Trans­port Museum. We are totally in love with her glass tum­blers with winter trees. As you know, we love winter trees.

Other design­ers include Matt Wing­field, who has worked for Har­vey Nich­ols, Diesel, Ted Baker and Stu­art Gardiner, whose home­ware range is sold in Liberty, The Con­ran Shop, and Anthropologie.

Also for sale in Hirst & Hirst is ISAK, a Swedish brand, foun­ded by Sandra Isaks­son, which has an unmis­tak­ably Scand­inavian style, all influ­enced by Sandra’s her­it­age and travels. And we love the fact she says ISAK products are part hand made by trolls.

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Coulson Macleod simply can’t fault with this half Finnish, half Eng­lish illus­trator and print maker Sanna Annukka. Her greet­ing cards are heav­enly. In fact far too lovely to give away.

In 2006 Sanna’s work was spot­ted by Keane, which led to a col­lab­or­a­tion on their album ‘Under the Iron Sea.’ Her cli­ent list includes; Uni­ver­sal Island Records, Brit­ish Vogue, Apple/itunes, M&S and Marimekko.

She has designed a lim­ited edi­tion mug for Elle Dec­or­a­tion and even the trams in Hel­sinki sport her designs.

One day, one day…

Today we’re wowed by install­a­tion artist, Gab­riel Dawe’s work. Plexus, made simply from thread nailed onto wood, is just so beautiful.

Gabriel’s install­a­tion Plexus No. 4 is cur­rently show­ing at Dal­las Con­tem­por­ary until Janu­ary 23^rd.

One of Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic prints was awar­ded first prize to the win­ner of Design Refuge’s Octo­ber Chal­lenge. Design Refuge, if you haven’t already come across it, is the largest meet­ing place online for design blog­gers worldwide.

The win­ner was Jac­quelyn Clark from blog lark & linen, who had to ask for help as she simply couldn’t decide which of these prints to choose…

Hand­made vintage-style, rough-sawn, solid oak frame sur­round­ing a white-washed oak panel prin­ted with dis­tressed typography

Dis­tressed typo­graphy prin­ted onto solid limestone

Hand­made frame and pan­elled back­board made from reclaimed wood, paint is applied by hand and then over-printed with dis­tressed image and typography

She said, “So as you all know, I was voted the Design Refuge Octo­ber chal­lenge win­ner. Yay!! My prize includes a print from the very tal­en­ted Coulson Macleod and I need your help! Their work is pretty incred­ible; often made with reclaimed mater­i­als, each piece is unique and beau­ti­ful. I’ve nar­rowed it down to the above three and would love to know, which do you prefer? I just can’t decide. As an aside, yes­ter­day Coulson Macleod put together a really sweet fea­ture on their blog about lark + linen. It’s the first time I’ve been fea­tured since start­ing my blog last April and if you’d like to see it please take a look here. It truly made my day.”

In the end Jac­quelyn chose our ‘The Roar of Trees and Crack of Branches’ print, which was fea­tured in the Novem­ber issue of Elle Dec­or­a­tion magazine.

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The post­man delivered a sur­prise par­cel to Coulson Macleod HQ on Friday.

A par­cel for us? Nor­mally it’s Coulson Macleod send­ing out parcels.

It was from Jamie Oliver. Yes the man him­self sent us a lovely let­ter and a signed copy of his latest recipe book 30 Minute Meals. Which saved us from going out and buy­ing a copy!

And why should Jamie Oliver be thank­ing Coulson Macleod? Well we designed a bespoke typo­graphic print for his char­ity, The Jamie Oliver Found­a­tion. The print was auc­tioned off at A Big Night Out With Jamie, his fun­drais­ing even­ing held at St. Paul’s Cathed­ral. Our print was bought by David Ellender, Global CEO of Free­mantle Media for £1,100.

Jamie Oliver’s let­ter to Coulson Macleod

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…and the goose is get­ting fat.

Only five weeks left before Christmas.

If you’re still look­ing for gift ideas or a little some­thing to dec­or­ate your man­tel­piece how about our latest typo­graphic art col­lec­tion ‘Christmas’…

The ‘Christ­mas’ col­lec­tion. Hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

‘Christ­mas Grey’. Hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

‘Christ­mas Green’. Hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

‘Christ­mas Red’. Hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

A solid square (24cm x 24cm x 2cm) of reclaimed wood, hand-painted white and then over-printed with dis­tressed typo­graphy.

The reclaimed wood is cut and sanded by hand, and we retain any defects in the salvaged tim­ber to add to the charm and char­ac­ter of the piece.

Avail­able in red, green, or grey.

Coulson Macleod; here to spread some Christ­mas cheer.

No. We didn’t win Inter­na­tional Trader of the Year.

Not this year anyway.

We were a min­now amongst whales to be hon­est. When they showed the video foot­age of the final­ists, we winced when we saw vast factor­ies, indus­trial machinery, and a sea of staff behind desks or driv­ing lor­ries in logo-ed overalls.

And then there’s Coulson Macleod. Just the two of us. No staff and no fancy recep­tion area with pot­ted plants.

One of the com­pan­ies in our cat­egory went on to win Best Busi­ness with over 50 Employees.

Other busi­nesses up for awards last night included super­mar­ket giants Waitrose and Sainsbury’s. We spent all night say­ing to each other, “What are we doing here?”

Most of the tables of 12 were taken by entire com­pan­ies. Their staff enjoy­ing a night out with free-flowing wine.

And we enjoyed ourselves too. We were enter­tained by Simon Evans, the comedian/writer who hos­ted the even­ing. And it’s always fun get­ting dressed up. Even if you don’t come home car­ry­ing an award.

And if you hap­pen to be won­der­ing why on earth Coulson Macleod would be a final­ist for Inter­na­tional Trader of the Year, then per­haps this is part of the reason: we have shipped our prints to 21 coun­tries to date… Aus­tralia, Bel­gium, Canada, Fin­land, France, Ger­many, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ire­land, Italy, New Zea­l­and, Nor­way, Poland, Singa­pore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, The Neth­er­lands, United Arab Emir­ates, and the United States of America.

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OK. News time.

We at Coulson Macleod HQ have been think­ing. Which we do from time to time. We’ve been dis­cuss­ing ship­ping costs.

Pre­vi­ously, if you lived out­side of main­land UK, you had to con­tact us to get a price for ship­ping your typo­graphic print.

We tried to stand­ard­ise our prices. But our prints are all dif­fer­ent sizes, weights and we’ve shipped to 20 far-flung coun­tries. Basic­ally we couldn’t get it to work.

Well that, my friends, has all changed. We have worked it out!  Thank good­ness I hear you cry.

We’ve covered part (in some cases a big part) of the cost in order to keep the ship­ping price low. And you can buy any num­ber of prints, the price won’t change. Just one price.

• £5 to North­ern Ire­land / Scot­tish High­lands & Islands
• £10 to Europe
• £20 to USA / Canada
• £30 to Aus­tralia / New Zealand
• £40 to Rest of World