Our ‘Amer­ican Noise’ is a canvas-mounted typo­graphic art print and is a lim­ited edi­tion of 250 prints.

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Do you think your work­place would bene­fit by hav­ing some new art?

Wouldn’t it be even bet­ter if this new art was cre­ated just for your business?

Coulson Macleod can do just this. Send us all your rel­ev­ant words. Use ones that pro­mote what your com­pany does, after all it will be read by all your wait­ing cus­tom­ers or cli­ents. And we turn those words into a cool piece of per­son­al­ised typo­graphic art.

What words would you use?

This is a bespoke typo­graphic can­vas print that Coulson Macleod cre­ated for a new beauty salon/clinic called Beauty Defined.

Your Coulson Macleod can­vas typo­graphic art print would be of museum qual­ity. Each print is hand-mounted and fin­ished with the finest mater­i­als by expert local craftsmen.

Your canvas-mounted print would be pro­duced using the very latest giclée print tech­no­logy. Heavy­weight 450gsm, 100% cot­ton, Bril­liance Chro­mata White premium fine art matte can­vas is used to ensure col­our repro­duc­tion and longev­ity are at their abso­lute max­imum. This can­vas is optical bright­ener agent free (optical bright­ener causes yel­low­ing over time) and has passed the Blue Wool stand­ards test for light fast­ness (up to 75 years) and is one of only a few canvases to achieve this.

Your can­vas art­work is hand-sprayed with five coats of Glam­our II Giclée Matt Var­nish to ensure max­imum pro­tec­tion and a smooth con­sist­ent fin­ish. This is a non-yellowing, water-based var­nish that enhances the col­our of pig­men­ted and ultra­chrome inks on matte media and increases res­ist­ance to image fad­ing. It also pro­tects images against mois­ture and abra­sion. The com­bin­a­tion of Glam­our II Matt Var­nish with Bril­liance Chro­mata White can­vas deliv­ers the most archival and colour-stable fine art repro­duc­tion available.

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• How To Hang Your Art
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If there was any day to pro­mote our Union Jack typo­graphic art, then it def­in­itely is today.

‘Rule Brit­an­nia’ is a huge can­vas (76.2cm x 117cm x 4.5cm) — a funky typo­graphic twist on the Brit­ish flag. Here’s to being patriotic.

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Related art­icles:

• It’s All Just Noise
• Coulson Macleod Hon­ours Alex­an­der McQueen

Thought we’d share with you one of the more unfor­tu­nate sides of becom­ing a suc­cess­ful business.

We have a copycat.

On the one hand this is flat­ter­ing. They obvi­ously think we’re a good model to base your busi­ness on. Which we are. On the other hand, as you can ima­gine, it’s annoying.

When they first launched, about a year after us, they even had the auda­city of pro­du­cing a canvas-mounted art­work exactly the same as ours. Until we threatened legal action. Now they have some­thing pretty sim­ilar, just not as good.

Coulson Macleod’s ‘No Place Like Home’ canvas-mounted art print

But they don’t just copy designs. Far more than that. They fol­low everything we do, then rep­lic­ate it. Weird hey?

This copycat com­pany has also stolen designs from other com­pan­ies, then sells them as ‘unique’. At least three other com­pan­ies have had their ideas reproduced.

Some­times when we’ve writ­ten some­thing on our blog, or our Face­book page, or tweet on Twit­ter, I see almost the same words the next day from this com­pany. It’s like hear­ing an echo.

No doubt they’ll be read­ing this. But as they have no shame I don’t for one second think this will stop them.

Oh the joys of being in business!

For the eagle-eyed among you, you will have noticed that we have two new prints in our ‘Noise’ col­lec­tion. The first is ‘The Beatles’…

Lim­ited edi­tion canvas-mounted art print by Coulson Macleod

And the second is ‘The Rolling Stones’…

Lim­ited edi­tion canvas-mounted art print by Coulson Macleod

Little con­fes­sion time. Our two new prints have actu­ally replaced two. ‘The Pix­ies’ and ‘The Vel­vet Under­ground’. Why? Erm… well… *whis­per* they were not that popular.

Could have lied and said they had sold out. But that’s lying and we don’t lie. And of course the whole reason for our blog is to record the ups and downs of Coulson Macleod.

There is no point keep­ing them if they don’t sell. They are a rem­nant of the first days of Coulson Macleod, when Coulson used to design things just for him­self. He loves The Pix­ies. And he loves The Vel­vet Under­ground. But clearly not every­one shares his enthusiasm.

And to quote The Beatles, it really is a ‘long and wind­ing road’.

Just had some really great close-up shots of our lim­ited edi­tion can­vas print ‘Amer­ican Noise’ — and we think they look fantastic.

Our can­vas prints are fin­ished by hand, by exper­i­enced local crafts­men.  We use a nat­ural (100% cot­ton), tex­tured can­vas, com­ple­men­ted by a chunky (45mm deep) Dutch spruce frame.

Let us know what you think.

This is what is hand­writ­ten on the Coulson Macleod Rule Brit­an­nia and Rule Brit­an­nia Too prints…

Charles Dick­ens, Dan Dare, Blimey! Gla­ston­bury, Kendal Mint Cake, Coron­a­tion Street, Beat­rix Pot­ter, Bad Weather, Hugh Grant, Ber­tie Bas­sett, Stone­henge, Doc­tor Who, Win­ston Churchill, Rolls Royce, Queuing, Warm Beer, St. George’s Day, The Class Sys­tem, Rule Brit­an­nia, Bowler Hat, Cider, Bull­dog, Den­nis the Men­ace, Jag­uar, Roast Beef and York­shire Pud­ding, National Health Ser­vice, Shakespeare, Cheers!, Big Ben, Irony, The Queen, Gurn­ing, Thomas the Tank Engine, Sar­casm, Wemb­ley, Pooh Sticks, Cider, Cro­quet, Dan­delion and Bur­dock, Laurence Olivier, Bloody Nora!, Henry Moore, Mor­ris Dan­cing, Earl Grey, Buck­ing­ham Palace, Fish and Chips, Paul Smith, Scrump­ing, Bug­ger All!, Cad­bury, BBC World Ser­vice, Mar­mite, Wimble­don, Lewis Car­roll, Cornish Pas­ties, Vivi­enne West­wood, Sid James, JRR Tolkien, Bottle Kick­ing, James Bond, Isam­bard King­dom Brunel, Conkers

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion canvas-mounted art print

Coulson and I had a lot of fun com­ing up with our final list, and quite a few disagreements!

We at Coulson Macleod are stick­lers for lots of things, and one of them is quality.

Our art­work is fin­ished by hand, by exper­i­enced local crafts­men. So no mass-produced ‘made in China’ stuff here. Each piece of art­work is quality-checked at every stage — after print­ing, after var­nish­ing, and after mount­ing — to ensure our high stand­ards are maintained.

We spent a long time find­ing just the right can­vas. The one we use has a lovely nat­ural, tex­tured fin­ish and is 100% cot­ton. It’s a heavy can­vas too, per­fect for wrap­ping around our chunky (4.5 cm deep) frames. The can­vas is also optical bright­ener agent free, which does sound a bit dull, but optical bright­en­ers cause yel­low­ing over time, and of course we don’t want that. The can­vas we use has also passed the Blue Wool Stand­ards test for light fast­ness (up to 75 years) and is one of only a few canvases to achieve this. You see what you mean when I say we’re stick­lers for quality!

A Coulson Macleod canvas-mounted print is pro­duced using the very latest giclee print tech­no­logy, so we can get the best col­our and detail. The qual­ity of our giclee print rivals tra­di­tional print­ing pro­cesses and is com­monly found in museums and gal­ler­ies.  And on the walls of many of the love­li­est homes around the globe!

After print­ing, a Coulson Macleod can­vas is then hand-sprayed with five coats of var­nish to ensure max­imum pro­tec­tion and a smooth con­sist­ent fin­ish. The var­nish we use is a non-yellowing, water-based, var­nish that enhances the col­our and increases res­ist­ance to image fad­ing. It also pro­tects images against mois­ture and abrasion.

Then comes the frame. Museum-quality of course!  A Coulson Macleod can­vas is wrapped by hand onto the wooden frame. We choose Dutch spruce as this wood is free from knots and is com­pletely straight. We also put wedges in the frame, which can be gently tapped to tighten the can­vas. The final part of the pro­cess is fit­ting the hangers on the back so the can­vas print sits flat against your wall.

Back of a Coulson Macleod can­vas print show­ing the wedges

Back of a Coulson Macleod can­vas print show­ing the crossbrace

Coulson Macleod canvases are prin­ted using pig­men­ted inks that are UV stable and sealed with UV pro­tect­ing var­nish and, if looked after cor­rectly, will last for many years. Typ­ic­ally this can be in excess of 75 to 100 years.

Here are a few sug­ges­tions to help you to look after your canvas.

• Avoid hand­ling as much as pos­sible to pre­vent scuffs and scratching.

• Avoid dis­play­ing in dir­ect sun­light. Although UV stable inks and var­nish are used, dir­ect sun­light will reduce the lifespan of your canvas.

• Avoid dis­play­ing your can­vas in areas of extreme and fluc­tu­at­ing tem­per­at­ures and humidity.

• Never clean using a damp cloth, solvents, or clean­ing fluids.

• Should dust settle on your can­vas then remove with a feather duster or use a soft brush to wipe while using a vacuum. Do not let the vacuum nozzle touch the can­vas surface.

• Avoid con­tact with mois­ture. Should any mois­ture come in con­tact with your can­vas then dab gently with a dry, lint-free, cloth to remove and avoid wip­ing and rubbing.

• Can­vas is a nat­ural product and will stretch over time. Your can­vas will be framed onto high-quality double-laminated kiln-dried stretcher bars. Should your can­vas appear to sag, these enable you to re-tension your can­vas by care­fully tap­ping the wedges.

a Coulson Macleod can­vas artwork