Here it is folks… The Coulson Macleod Sale…
40% off all Coulson Macleod typographic art on our website. Includes bespoke word art. Please use the discount code: JANUARYSALE at the checkout.
Any print ordered in the sale will be dispatched after 3rd January (if in stock). Bespoke and out-of-stock prints will be dispatched the week starting 9th January 2012.
The Coulson Macleod sale is for a very limited time only.
Here’s our latest creation; a bespoke typographic artwork for Casco Contractors Inc, a construction company based in California…
This personalised typographic artwork consists of four prints, each one measuring 52cm x 52cm x 8cm. We loved the idea of having four separate prints (like building blocks) that when placed together spells out ‘if you build it they will come’. Should fill their reception wall quite nicely, don’t you think?
Cheryl Osborn, the President and founder of Casco fell in love with our naturally weather-rusted steel sheets. And she loved the handmade reclaimed wood frames too.
And we rather love the finished design.
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Story time. This is for anyone who has ever had to deal with customs.
One of our lovely customers, Georgia, bought and created a bespoke typographic print from us. A surprise gift for her boyfriend; for his 30th birthday. The boyfriend (who we shall call Poor Boyfriend) lives in Beirut.
Georgia did tell Poor Boyfriend to expect a UPS delivery to his office. Of course he had no idea what the delivery was.
A few days later Poor Boyfriend gets a call from UPS. They can’t deliver the box. It’s being held by customs. He’ll need to go to the aiport to collect it himself.
A minor hassle perhaps. The good natured Poor Boyfriend asks if they know what the gift is. Well you would, wouldn’t you?
He’s told it’s a piece of art by Coulson. Now we like to think the whole world has heard about us, but of course they haven’t. And UPS had missed off the crucial Macleod part. So Poor Boyfriend was a bit clueless.
So, before setting off to the airport, he did a quick Google search for images by Coulson. And up pops Peter Coulson Photography. He’s an Australian photographer, based in Melbourne. Mainly fashion and glamour shots. Some of it is rather raunchy. Pretty controversial stuff to hang on your wall in the liberal west. But Poor Boyfriend is living in Lebanon.
Poor Boyfriend stumbles across a couple of shots that start to make him sweat. And not in a good way. One in particular stood out. A heavily pregnant naked woman wearing a face veil, high heels, and holding a machine gun. Another naked woman is wearing a KKK hood burning a cross. Gulp!
Poor Boyfriend is scared. Surely Georgia wouldn’t send him something that could get him arrested? Think you’d be sweating at this point too, wouldn’t you?
We’re guessing that the trip to the airport was not particularly pleasant.
Massive relief to find the gift is just a harmless bespoke Coulson Macleod print.
But the pain doesn’t end there.
Poor Boyfriend is then told there is a problem with the invoice value. Apparently the value of the print is incorrect. Despite the fact that we put the value on the invoice. You would assume that the company sending the item knows the value of its own products? But no. This is customs; Beirut style. Poor Boyfriend’s print is now valued at $2,000. Not the £249 we’d put down. He’s then told he’ll have to pay import duty. There is a long and heated exchange. And after paying off several custom officials and wasting over half a day Poor Boyfriend is released.
Poor Boyfriend gets home. He rings Georgia.
But you know what?
Despite fearing for his freedom. His sanity. The hassle. And the huge amount of money to corrupt officials. Poor Boyfriend is blown away with his gift!
And so are his mates.
And so is Georgia when she goes to visit him. “I couldn’t believe how spectacular it was. The photographs on your website really don’t do it any justice.”
If you have a story that you’d like to share, do email us at hello@coulsonmacleod.com and we may write about it too.
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Article on me in today’s local paper…
A businesswoman is in the final three of a major regional award after turning the design company she started from her front room two years ago into a thriving global brand.
Hannah Macleod is up for Small Business of the Year in the final in the East Midlands Women of Worth Awards.
Ms Macleod said: “This is a really big award. Last year more than 1,000 people entered that category alone.
“It’s absolutely phenomenal. If I don’t win, just being in the final three is incredible.”
The awards aim to recognise the commitment and contribution made by business women to the East Midlands economy and the achievement of the region’s entrepreneurial and forward-thinking women.
Without any business loans from banks since setting up in 2009, Ms Macleod and her partner Mark Coulson have been shipping their typographic art to 21 countries.
Last year chef Jamie Oliver commissioned a piece for a charity auction. The oak-framed piece, which featured Mr Oliver’s catch phrases, like “pukka”, “bacon sarnies” and “geezer”, was bought for £1,100 by the chief executive of a global media company.
Ms Macleod said: “Every day is amazing for us. It’s not a job, it’s not a business, it’s a passion. We enjoy every side of it.”
She will meet a panel of judges on February 11, and the winner will be announced at the Women in Business Conference at the East Midlands Conference Centre on March 8.
Ms Macleod reached the finals of the Best Online Business Award in the national Mumpreneur Awards last year.
The business, Coulson Macleod, also reached the finals in the Northamptonshire Business Excellence Awards for International Trader of the Year.
But Ms Macleod has vowed not to rest on her laurels.
She said: “We will continue doing exactly what we are doing. Whatever it is we are doing it right.”
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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 Fremantle Media for £1,100.
Jamie Oliver’s letter to Coulson Macleod
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As Coulson Macleod continues to grow and develop, so do our typographic art collections. We’ve just updated our Bespoke page and now offer our bespoke typographic art onto rusted steel, solid limestone, and whitewashed frames made from reclaimed timber.
One of our rusted steel prints that can now be personalized
One of our solid limestone prints that can now be personalized
One of our whitewashed reclaimed wood prints that can now be personalized
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We are happiest when we’re creating bespoke typographic art for our customers.
Firstly, because we simply enjoy the design process. Obviously.
Secondly, because it fills our office with love. Personal messages from husbands to wives, girlfriends to boyfriends, daughters to mothers. Special words, thoughts and phrases from the heart that invariably make us go “aw!”.
Sometimes at Coulson Macleod HQ we’re asked to design something a little different. And this is one of our favourites…
Large solid oak frame and white-washed oak panel
A wonderful wedding anniversary gift to a husband using his phrase. Perfect!
BIG news time and it’s all to do with Jamie Oliver.
Coulson Macleod was approached by The Jamie Oliver Foundation who asked if we’d consider designing a piece of bespoke typographic art for their annual fundraising event, A Big Night Out With Jamie.
Well, we didn’t have to think twice. We love Jamie Oliver.
Coulson Macleod’s bespoke design for Jamie Oliver
The event is being held this Thursday (11th November). And it’s being held in St Paul’s Cathedral. Wow!
Our ‘Pukka Print’ (get it?) is being put into the silent auction, which will be displayed on electronic keypads at every table, shown on screens around the room, and goes into the auction pack. Cool! When we showed The Jamie Oliver Foundation our final design, they loved it so much they asked if we could send the actual print to them, so people at the event can admire it in the ‘flesh’.
The annual fundraising event is in aid of Fifteen’s pioneering Chef Apprentice Programme. Money raised at the event will be reinvested so Fifteen can continue to offer young people, often in need of a break in life, the experience of learning to work in the restaurant business.
I also mentioned this on BBC radio last week if you’d like to listen to this interview.
If you want to watch a bit of last year’s Big Night Out With Jamie, you can view a snapshot at http://www.youtube.com/fifteentv
Jamie will be there. Obviously. As will his wife, The Lovely Jools. Ben Shephard is co-hosting. The Fifteen chefs and apprentices will be creating a four-course meal designed by Jamie. Diana Vickers is performing.
Just wish we were going.
I don’t often get to air my views as Macleod is always hogging the blog, but every now and again I manage to pry myself away from, you know, work and stuff, to tell all you lovely people about what we’ve actually been doing. So here I am to showcase some of the bespoke typographic art pieces we’ve produced recently.
If you’ve had a look at the bespoke typographic artwork page on our website you will see that we can produce unique prints based on most of our art collections, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. We’re designers, and we can pretty much produce anything you want, whether that’s a specific shape or size, or artwork in a different style entirely.
Here’s a good example. This customer wanted the artwork to fit a specific spot in his hallway so it had to measure 120cm x 60cm, and to match the colours in his striped carpet… not a problem.
Coulson Macleod bespoke typographic art on reclaimed wood
Handmade and hand painted bespoke typographic art.
The customer had this to say…
“September: checked the calendar and OMG it’s our wedding anniversary coming up fast, what can I get Emm? Had been looking at the Coulson Macleod website a few weeks earlier and it all fell into place. After a phone call and an email things moved fast. I had an idea of what I wanted. Bespoke typography. The first verse from our song. Coulson Macleod had a draft over in a few days. Reclaimed wooden frame made the following week. Delivered the week after. Thank you Coulson Macleod. It looks fantastic. And I’m the best hubby on the block (for now!)”
Here are a few more recent pieces just to give you an idea of the kinds of things we can do.*
*Please note: It is the customers responsibility to ensure copyright approval has been obtained where applicable.
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As well as designing very cool typographic art collections, we, that’s Couslon Macleod, can also create personalized art just for you.
Just to show you some examples of our bespoke art…
This one, using our ‘Winter Trees’ as a base, was created for one of our customers…
… who then wrote us this amazing testimonial,
“I’d been interested in Coulson Macleod’s work after seeing it in the press, and having discovered via their website that they also do bespoke work, I suggested an alternative wording. We discussed a treatment, I was sent an image for pre approval and five days later a fantastic and unique piece is now hanging in our home. I could not be more delighted with the finished piece of work whilst the service offered was nothing short of brilliant.”
Isn’t that nice?
A close-up of the bespoke art based on our Winter Trees collection.
Our bespoke personalization service can also be based on our rough-sawn solid oak-framed ‘Love’ prints, like this one…
All you have to do is pick a similar number of words and sentences that you want to incorporate, and we do the rest.
So if you’d love to own a one-off piece of art that has been created just for you, or you need to find a truly unique gift, then just click on Coulson Macleod. Simple.
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