Not For Squares

Yes I know it’s a Bill Wither’s song, but there really is just the two of us. And we can make it if we try (I’ll ignore the castles in the sky bit).

Coulson Macleod is a teeny weeny company.

There’s Mark, he’s the Coulson half. And there’s me, Han­nah, the Macleod half.

The busi­ness is built on love and driven by pas­sion. This is true. This is not some made-up mar­ket­ing spiel.

Mark and I met, fell in love, moved in together and then got bored of star­ing at blank walls. We knew what we liked. But couldn’t find it to buy. Or if we did, we couldn’t afford it.

Then we said, “I bet there are other people out there just like us,” (or words to that effect).

Coulson Macleod is our baby. We love it and nur­ture it. We wake in the night to think about it. We proudly tell oth­ers about it. We glow with pride when it does well. It is ours. And we’re on a won­der­ful journey.

Per­haps Mark and I are build­ing big castles way on high. Just the two of us. You and I.

Lim­ited edi­tion vintage-style art print by Coulson Macleod

Well, well, well… Coulson Macleod is on a roll.

We now have our second stock­ist on board.

The divine-looking Bolina in Oslo, Nor­way. Unfor­tu­nately I can’t tell you much about the shop as the web­site is in Nor­we­gian, apart from it was set up twenty years ago by two female friends, Cath­rine and Hanne, and is one of the trend­i­est shops in Oslo, which the styl­ists visit every week for inspiration.

The pho­tos of the products speak for them­selves and it totally looks like a place that we’d quite hap­pily spend hours brows­ing and buying.

Bolina now stocks Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art prints

Oooh, I’ve just thought, maybe Coulson Macleod should start vis­it­ing our stock­ists (yes I can say that word now in the plural) to say hello properly.

We found some simple white­washed frames for our three ‘Dec­ades’ prints and think they look fab!

Coulson Macleod typo­graphic print from the Dec­ades collection

A framed Dec­ades print is just £55 or £25 if you prefer to buy the print unframed.

Coulson Macleod typo­graphic print from the Dec­ades collection

Coulson Macleod typo­graphic print from the Dec­ades collection

Click through to Coulson Macleod to see the whole collection.

The fol­low­ing ‘Spe­cial Offers’ at Coulson Macleod end at mid­night on Sunday, 10^th January:-

SPECIAL OFFER 1: Stock Clearance

Buy any print cur­rently in stock (see list below) and get all three prints from our Dec­ades Col­lec­tion FREE.

• 3 x What Is Love?
• 2 x Do You Love Me
• 2 x Defin­i­tion Of Love
• 2 x Defin­i­tion Of Romance
• 2 x I Love You Now. I Love You Always.
• 2 x Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner
• 1 x Love Makes The Ride Worthwhile
• 1 x I’ll Never Let Go
• 1 x Rule Brit­an­nia 14″ x 20″

SPECIAL OFFER 2: Buy one, get two free

Buy any print from our Dec­ades Col­lec­tion and get the other two prints FREE.

SPECIAL OFFER 3: Buy one, get one free

Buy any lim­ited edi­tion print made-to-order (i.e. not in stock) and get a FREE print of your choice from our Dec­ades Collection.

Our latest art col­lec­tion, Dec­ades, has just been released and this time our typo­graphic prints are unlimited.

The prints in the Coulson Macleod ‘Dec­ades’ col­lec­tion are both unlim­ited and unmoun­ted and there­fore cost less at £25 each.

We’ve prin­ted them onto really lovely 100% recycled, off-white, uncoated, heavy­weight paper.  The prints are 50cm x 50cm square (ideal for Ikea frames) and are delivered free in the UK rolled in a heavy-duty postal tube.

Coulson Macleod unlim­ited typo­graphic art print

Coulson Macleod unlim­ited typo­graphic art print

Coulson Macleod unlim­ited typo­graphic art print

So there I am, mind­ing my own busi­ness, when Macleod says the words that bring all this into being, “Don’t take this the wrong way but I don’t think much to the pic­tures on your walls”, she’s like that, tact­ful in the extreme.

So what’s a boy to do?  Buy new art obviously.

Easier said than done.  We just could not find a thing we liked.  Or if we liked it we couldn’t afford it.  We wanted some­thing cool and funky and not mass-produced, there’s noth­ing worse than see­ing your prized pos­ses­sion on the walls of Ian Beale’s home in Eastenders!

We also had the usual “I’m not put­ting that on the wall!” type con­ver­sa­tions, whenever I looked admir­ingly at a pop-art supe­hero or she pro­duced a pic­ture of a daisy from behind her back!

Even­tu­ally, to get exactly what we wanted, we decided to make our own (I am a graphic designer after all), and the idea was born — Coulson Macleod — in all it’s shiny glory!

Oops, got a bit car­ried away there…

Any­way, ‘Dead Cool’ was the first print to make it onto our walls and the start of a whole new adven­ture for us.

Coulson Macleod’s lim­ited edi­tion con­tem­por­ary typo­graphic art print — Dead Cool

What do you think?

(And please tell me you get it… so many people don’t!)

Coulson Macleod is now just over six months old and slowly start­ing to find its feet, and this bit of our blog is all about Coulson Macleod the busi­ness — the highs, the lows, maybe a few more lows, then pos­sibly another high, you get the pic­ture. It will all be here. Please feel free to join us.…

Well, after a few failed attempts at get­ting this blog up and run­ning, I think we’ve finally done it. Phew!

(I acci­dent­ally, have no idea how, deleted the last one). Oops!

Any­way wel­come to the ran­dom mus­ings of Coulson Macleod.