‘Mid­life Crisis’ print on solid lime­stone by Coulson Macleod

This is our ‘Mid­life Crisis’ print. Lovely rough pit­ted solid lime­stone. Dis­tressed typo­graphy. Avail­able framed or unframed. The ideal gift for a 40^th birthday.

And these are the words…

• Middle age is hav­ing the choice between two tempta­tions and choos­ing the one that’ll get you home earlier.
• What most people con­sider as vir­tue, when you reach middle age, is simply a loss of energy.
• Inside every middle-aged per­son is a younger per­son won­der­ing what’s happened.
• Middle age is when you turn off lights for eco­nom­ical rather than romantic reasons.
• When you reach middle age you can’t do any­thing everyday.
• Just remem­ber, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
• Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
• The first sign of middle age is dis­cov­er­ing that the volume knob also turns to the left.
• Middle age is when you still believe you will feel bet­ter in the morning.
• At the age of 20, we don’t care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is think­ing of us; at 40, we dis­cover that it wasn’t think­ing of us at all.
• Middle age is always fif­teen years older than you are.
• The secret of stay­ing young is to live hon­estly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

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is 2 today.

Happy birth­day to us!

Wow! What a two years it has been.

What star­ted out as a ‘lets try it and see’ idea, Coulson Macleod has grown into a small, but global brand. We both fondly remem­ber our first sale. We were SO excited. We happened to be going out to din­ner with friends that even­ing and could barely con­tain our joy at hav­ing actu­ally sold a piece of our own art.

My how we’ve changed over two years.

We’re on our third com­pletely new web­site. Built from scratch each time. Good job we do it ourselves.

We’ve built a global cus­tomer base. Our typo­graphic prints hang on the walls in 22 coun­tries. Many of our cus­tom­ers are repeat. Our best cus­tomer has bought eight pieces to date.

We’ve been nom­in­ated for five awards.

There are shops in Italy, Nor­way, and the UK that stock our art.

Our prints are stocked by the lux­ury shop­ping dir­ect­ory Red Dir­ect (part of the women’s magazine Red).

We’ve cre­ated so many amaz­ing bespoke typo­graphic pieces. Jamie Oliver was so pleased with the ‘Pukka Print’ we designed he sent us a signed copy of his latest recipe book and a letter.

We’ve been spot­ted on TV.

We’ve been pub­lished. In a gor­geous coffee-table design book. Along­side some really high pro­file designers.

And we have a long list of upcom­ing pro­jects, which we can’t reveal just yet.

We have had an immense two years. So much fun. We love Coulson Macleod with a passion.

Thank you for tak­ing the time to read our blog and shar­ing our love.

Here’s to a bril­liant third year. Keep read­ing as we have lots planned.

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Happy 1^st Birth­day Coulson Macleod

Yes, that’s right, Coulson Macleod is one today!

The idea to sell art popped into our heads just over a year ago. And by the 4^th March 2009 Coulson Macleod became an offi­cial business.

We launched our web­site on the 20^th, and cel­eb­rated our first sale of a lim­ited edi­tion print two weeks later. Now, in the nor­mal world of retail, two weeks would be rather a long time to wait for a cus­tomer. But at this stage you couldn’t have found us by search­ing on the inter­net. And we hadn’t advert­ised. We were ecstatic!

It’s been a bril­liant year.

We’ve shipped prints to far away lands. Aus­tralia. New Zea­l­and. Canada. And to prac­tic­ally every state in Amer­ica. Cus­tom­ers some­times buy more than one print at a time. Cus­tom­ers are com­ing back to buy more. For birth­day gifts, wed­ding gifts, or another print for their own walls.

So we’d like to take this oppor­tun­ity to thank all our cus­tom­ers. And to every­one all around the world who has taken the time to write about us. Whether you’ve just pos­ted an image of our art­work with a link back to us, or writ­ten a gush­ing wordy art­icle, we still get totally excited at see­ing our name out there.

We’ll be drink­ing a toast to our next year, which we’ve already got heaps of plans and designs for.

Cheers!