So there I am, mind­ing my own busi­ness, when Macleod says the words that bring all this into being, “Don’t take this the wrong way but I don’t think much to the pic­tures on your walls”, she’s like that, tact­ful in the extreme.

So what’s a boy to do?  Buy new art obviously.

Easier said than done.  We just could not find a thing we liked.  Or if we liked it we couldn’t afford it.  We wanted some­thing cool and funky and not mass-produced, there’s noth­ing worse than see­ing your prized pos­ses­sion on the walls of Ian Beale’s home in Eastenders!

We also had the usual “I’m not put­ting that on the wall!” type con­ver­sa­tions, whenever I looked admir­ingly at a pop-art supe­hero or she pro­duced a pic­ture of a daisy from behind her back!

Even­tu­ally, to get exactly what we wanted, we decided to make our own (I am a graphic designer after all), and the idea was born — Coulson Macleod — in all it’s shiny glory!

Oops, got a bit car­ried away there…

Any­way, ‘Dead Cool’ was the first print to make it onto our walls and the start of a whole new adven­ture for us.

Coulson Macleod’s lim­ited edi­tion con­tem­por­ary typo­graphic art print — Dead Cool

What do you think?

(And please tell me you get it… so many people don’t!)

Coulson Macleod is now just over six months old and slowly start­ing to find its feet, and this bit of our blog is all about Coulson Macleod the busi­ness — the highs, the lows, maybe a few more lows, then pos­sibly another high, you get the pic­ture. It will all be here. Please feel free to join us.…

We’re sit­ting here admir­ing our first sample of typo­graphic art prin­ted onto wood and feel­ing very pleased with ourselves.

It’s gor­geous.

Dis­tressed typo­graphy, prin­ted onto wood, and then framed in a vintage-looking hand-crafted chunky solid oak frame.

It looks like some­thing only lucky people find in junk shops, which is never usu­ally us.

So we cheated and made our own.