Not For Squares

Today is a good day. Why? I hear you cry.

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.

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.

Coulson Macleod now offers a per­son­al­iz­a­tion service.

Coulson Macleod bespoke art. Per­fect wed­ding gift.

The bespoke piece has to based on these best-selling prints from our Love Collection:

Simply pick a sim­ilar num­ber of words and sen­tences that you want to incor­por­ate, and we do the rest, res­ult­ing in a one-off piece of bespoke art­work that’s totally per­sonal to you.

An ideal gift for someone get­ting mar­ried or a wed­ding anniversary.

Our bespoke prints cost £199.

Met a lady a few days ago, Car­oline, who was wear­ing a rather eye-catching neck­lace.  Turns out she’s a jew­eller and sells her cre­ations online at Car­oline May.

Car­oline only uses ster­ling or hill tribe sil­ver (which is actu­ally purer).  She com­bines sil­ver with beads she sources from around the globe, includ­ing Swarovski crys­tal, Czech and Indian glass, and semi-precious stones.

Car­oline also designs bespoke pieces too from her stu­dio in Northamp­ton­shire, and is cur­rently work­ing on a sil­ver neck­lace with faceted emer­ald nug­gets and tourmaline drops.  Hope­fully I’ll get a pic­ture of the fin­ished piece for you all to see.