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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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.

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

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

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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in Gjøvik, Norway.

This gorgeous concept store/cafe opened on September 1st.

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.

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.

‘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.

]]> http://www.blog.coulsonmacleod.com/2010/09/03/two-twos-are/feed/ 4 http://www.blog.coulsonmacleod.com/2010/09/02/made-you-look-made-you-stare/ http://www.blog.coulsonmacleod.com/2010/09/02/made-you-look-made-you-stare/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:28:01 +0000 Macleod http://www.blog.coulsonmacleod.com/?p=1771 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.

We’ve designed it so it doesn’t look like a last minute purchase. Or a ‘I haven’t got a clue what to buy. Oh a voucher will do’.

A Coulson Macleod Gift Pack is more than just a gift voucher. What you’re in fact buying is a little work of art. A Coulson Macleod handmade work of art. Simple, distressed, typographic… just smaller than usual.

We send our Gift Packs in a simple, brown, but utterly gorgeous Coulson Macleod-branded gift box. Made from recycled paper. Of course.

And inside is a unique Coulson Macleod typographic artwork.

• Unique as it’s handmade from reclaimed Victorian roof timbers.
• Unique as it’s white-washed by hand.
• Unique as it’s printed by hand.

Of course, each of these stages brings its own slight variations.

• Each piece of wood has its own knots and cracks.
• Each paint stroke carries a different amount of paint.
• Each hand-inked print is laid on to a different surface texture and a different amount of pressure applied.

Resulting in a one-off piece of art. Which is what makes owning a Coulson Macleod so special.

Then of course we add your Gift Voucher. You can add your own personal message.

Then your special someone can use their Gift Voucher as payment, or part-payment, for any of the artwork on our website.

Well, that’s your Christmas presents sorted then!

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Handmade. Hand painted. Reclaimed wood. Distressed typography.

So very Coulson Macleod. Unique. By design.

Handmade. Hand painted. Reclaimed wood. Distressed typography.

So very Coulson Macleod. Unique. By design.

Handmade. Hand painted. Reclaimed wood. Distressed typography.

So very Coulson Macleod. Unique. By design.

Well folks, we have beaten our sales record. We have sold more prints in August than in any other month in the entire history of Coulson Macleod. And we’ve been up and running for almost eighteen months.

We have a whiteboard on our office wall. Every time we make a sale we wipe off the old number and write up the new one. I say we, but actually I usually do this, partly because my handwriting is neater, but mainly because it gives me a huge amount of pleasure. Every month we write down how many we’ve sold, whether they’ve been sold via Not On The High Street or through shops or if they’re bespoke and how many came via one of our adverts in Elle Decoration or Livingetc.

We love our whiteboard. We quite often catch each other staring at it fondly. Because every month the figures go up. And that is super exciting.

And this month, only half way through August I might point out, we’ve notched up the biggest number since our records began. To let you into a secret, we only started recording this on the board since November, which was when we started selling in serious numbers and the idea of a whiteboard sprang into our heads.

So ladies and gentlemen, tonight we may clink our glasses and say a little toast to our little booming business that we love so much.