Admit­tedly this has been on the Coulson Macleod agenda for some time. Our cus­tom­ers keep ask­ing for it. And now, finally, we’ve almost done it…

designed two more typo­graphic prints for our ‘Dec­ades’ col­lec­tion; ‘The Nineties’ and ‘The Nought­ies’. Yay!

And, even more excit­ing news, we’re also launch­ing a bespoke ver­sion too. We’ll obvi­ously show you the fin­ished prints when they’re ready.

These are the three exist­ing typo­graphic prints in our ‘Dec­ades’ collection…

Our three new typo­graphic prints will fea­ture brand-new, even love­lier and chunkier, frames. Pro­fes­sion­ally framed by a Fine Art Trade Guild member.

So in pre­par­a­tion for the launch, we’ve put our framed ‘Dec­ades’ col­lec­tion (with the old-style pic­ture frame) in our Clear­ance Page. So don’t hes­it­ate if you fancy pick­ing up a bar­gain, num­bers are lim­ited, and when they’ve sold out… well they’re sold out.

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Coulson Macleod’s ‘Not For Squares’ blog is usu­ally about art, design, typo­graphy, and busi­ness. So per­haps this photo is slightly out of the ordinary…

But I (this is Macleod writ­ing) love it and that’s reason enough to show it off.

I’m very pleased to intro­duce you to my mother’s very regal look­ing Italian great grand­father Sacer­dote Bonny  and his wife Clara.

Check out London-born artist Robert Brad­ford’s recycled toy sculptures…

Robert cre­ates these life-size sculp­tures from, mainly, dis­carded plastic toys.

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Another artist that I’ve per­son­ally known and admired for a long time is Shauna Richard­son.

Shauna lives loc­ally. Whilst study­ing fine art at Leicester Uni­ver­sity her archi­tec­tural paint­ings caught my par­ents atten­tion and one of her early works of art now hangs in their liv­ing room.

But Shauna is far bet­ter known these days for being a crochetdermist.

A what?

Well, she makes animal sculp­tures from crochet. Sounds a bit weird, doesn’t it? Check out her work below.

Shauna is cur­rently in the pro­cess of cre­at­ing three giant lions for the 2012 Cul­tural Olympiad.

Each lion takes seven months to make and uses approx­im­ately eighty kilos of local Swaledale wool. When com­pleted, the 25-foot lions will prowl the coun­try before return­ing to the East Midlands.

Shauna’s crochet­dermy pieces are cre­ated to com­mis­sion. But you can buy pieces from her web­site. Prices range from £450 to £15,000.

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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.

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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Wel­come to Coulson Macleod’s latest stockist…

in Gjøvik, Nor­way.

This gor­geous concept store/café opened on Septem­ber 1^st.

Gjovik is a small enorm­ously pretty town with obvi­ously fab­ulous shop­ping. And is right on Lake Mjosa, the biggest lake in Norway.

Our hearts long for Norway.

Since we launched our typo­graphic art busi­ness 18 months ago, Coulson Macleod has made lots of cre­at­ive friends. One of these is artist/designer Joanne Holbrook.

Joanne, who used to work as a graphic designer for pack­aging design­ers Jones Knowles Ritchie and design agency Pub­li­cis, launched her art busi­ness in 2004.

When her eld­est son Stan­ley was born six years ago, she cre­ated this gor­geous print for his nurs­ery wall, mak­ing a col­lage of his name using some old print­ers blocks she’d picked up from a Lon­don market…

Then, when Albert arrived three years later, she cre­ated this equally lovely one for him…

Glad to have made some­thing spe­cial for her boys; Joanne put the blocks away. But when friends vis­ited, they kept ask­ing where she’d bought her art­work. Then nagged her to do the same for their children.

Tak­ing the ori­ginal let­ter­press effect as inspir­a­tion, Joanne now digit­ally cre­ates unique designs.

Visit Joanne’s store on Not On The High Street for her full range.

Yes, that’s right. Four. An unlucky num­ber if you’re Chinese. But not if you love Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art. Launched 1^st Septem­ber, our four new collections…

‘Wilde Grey’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

‘Wilde Blue’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

‘Wilde Red’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

‘Nap­kin Not Ser­vi­ette’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art.

‘Lunch Not Din­ner’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art.

‘Pud­ding Not Dessert’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art.

‘Hel­vetica’. Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art on Vic­torian roof timbers.

‘Futura’. Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art on Vic­torian roof timbers.

‘Times’. Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art on Vic­torian roof timbers.

‘John Len­non’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made solid oak framed art.

‘Bob Dylan’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made solid oak framed art.

‘Keith Richards’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made solid oak framed art.

Want to intro­duce you to the amaz­ing work of Christina Looker and Alissa Ross (a lovely Face­book friend) who run Made u Look, wedding/engagement pho­to­graph­ers based in Cali­for­nia. I’m so in love with their style.

Please let me live in their world…

And do check out their blog too… gorgeous.