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Art For Sale

Macleod — Fri, 20 May 2011 11:08:11 +0000

Do you fancy a bargain?

If you happen to be looking for…

a one-off piece of typographic artwork
a sample
end-of-line typographic print
discontinued artwork

Coulson Macleod now has a Clearance Page where you can find all this at really low prices. Woohoo!

Normal Price: £199.00 Clearance Price £75.00

Normal Price: £149.00 Clearance Price £50.00

Normal Price: £169.00 Clearance Price £75.00

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Bespoke Typographic Canvas Art

Macleod — Sat, 14 May 2011 13:04:37 +0000

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.

More Than A Copycat

Macleod — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:29:07 +0000

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!

Coulson Macleod Makes A Noise

Macleod — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:19:20 +0000

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.

Coulson Macleod Honours Alexander McQueen

Macleod — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:25:47 +0000

Coulson Macleod limited edition art print honouring Alexander McQueen

Coulson Macleod In Weddings Unveiled

Macleod — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:00:55 +0000

See Coulson Macleod in the Winter 2010 issue of the US glossy magazine Weddings Unveiled — Inspiring Style for Southern Weddings.

Weddings Unveiled featured The Stone Roses, a limited edition canvas-mounted giclee print, available to buy in three sizes.

Weddings Unveiled also have a really lovely looking blog, full of inspirational wedding ideas and amazing real weddings.

Coulson Macleod’s Cool Britannia

Macleod — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:37:06 +0000

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!

Why Coulson Macleod Canvases Look So Good

Macleod — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:21:20 +0000

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