Can’t say we love the work of Dimitri Tsykalov. It’s clever. It’s macabre. It’s Halloween.

And ser­i­ously, how scary can fruit and veg really be?

Quite scary. Actually.

Happy Hal­loween.

Lov­ing these pho­tos taken inside a haunted house…

Night­mares Fear Fact­ory, in Niagara Falls, has been ter­ri­fy­ing folk for over 30 years. We rather like the fact that they say over 100,000 have chickened out… it’s that scary.

Happy Hal­loween.

‘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.

Related art­icles:

• Coulson Macleod’s Rock Collection
• Writ­ten In Stone

‘Baby Gaga’ print on solid lime­stone by Coulson Macleod

This is our ‘Baby Gaga’ print. Lovely rough pit­ted solid lime­stone. Dis­tressed typo­graphy. Avail­able framed or unframed. The ideal gift for new parents.

And these are the words…

• Babies are such a nice way to start people.
• Chil­dren rein­vent your world for you.
• Hav­ing a child is surely the most beau­ti­fully irra­tional act that two people in love can commit.
• There are three reas­ons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right tem­per­at­ure; it comes in attract­ive con­tain­ers; and the cat can’t get it.
• Babies are always more trouble than you thought… and more wonderful.
• A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bank­roll smal­ler, home hap­pier, clothes shab­bier, the past for­got­ten, and the future worth liv­ing for.
• A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of respons­ib­il­ity at the other.
• The worst fea­ture of a new baby is its mother’s singing.
• Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvi­ous con­fec­tions, chil­dren tend to be sticky.
• A cry­ing baby is the best form of birth control.
• People who say they sleep like a baby usu­ally don’t have one.
• Mak­ing the decision to have a baby — it’s moment­ous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walk­ing out­side your body.

Related art­icles:

• Coulson Macleod’s Rock Collection
• Writ­ten In Stone

‘Wed­ded Bliss’ print on solid lime­stone by Coulson Macleod

This is our ‘Wed­ded Bliss’ print. Lovely rough pit­ted solid lime­stone. Dis­tressed typo­graphy. Avail­able framed or unframed. The ideal wed­ding gift.

And these are the words…

• The more you invest in a mar­riage, the more valu­able it becomes.
• Men who have a pierced ear are bet­ter pre­pared for mar­riage. They’ve exper­i­enced pain and bought jewellery.
• New­ly­weds become oldy­weds, and oldy­weds are the reason that fam­il­ies work.
• A suc­cess­ful mar­riage requires fall­ing in love many times, always with the same person.
• Mar­riages are made in heaven. But so are thun­der, light­ning, tor­nadoes and hail.
• Mar­riage is the alli­ance of two people, one of whom never remem­bers birth­days and the other who never for­gets them.
• Happy mar­riages begin when we marry the one we love, and they blos­som when we love the ones we marry.
• Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
• The secret to a good mar­riage is under­stand­ing that it must be total, it must be per­man­ent and it must be equal.
• Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hope­ful, and endures through every circumstance.
• Mar­riage is more than find­ing the right per­son. It is being the right person.
• A heart in love hears music even when there is silence.

Related art­icles:

• Coulson Macleod’s Rock Collection
• Writ­ten In Stone

Two bits of recent press for Coulson Macleod and our typo­graphic art…

fea­tur­ing Coulson Macleod’s ‘I Love You Simply’ typo­graphic print

fea­tur­ing Coulson Macleod’s ‘The Sev­en­ties’ typo­graphic print

Related art­icles:

• Bespoke Art; A Great Wed­ding Gift Idea
• Some Recent Press…

Can you spot the Coulson Macleod link?

Han­nah, the Macleod half of Coulson Macleod, will be on stage at 1pm present­ing ‘reach­ing new audi­ences through online mar­ket­ing’ along­side Zoe Twyn­ham, Avon’s head of ecommerce.

Related art­icles:

• Coulson Macleod On Facebook
• We’re Into The Spirit Of Christmas

Today Coulson Macleod is a little smit­ten with Hotel Neri in Barcelona.

Lov­ing the rough tex­tures. Very Coulson Macleod.

Related art­icles:

• Coulson Macleod Loves Cap Rocat
• Coulson Macleod Loves La Maison Rouge

Fancy. No longer just a word. It’s also…

• part store
• part blog
• part magazine
• part wish­list

Fancy is a place to dis­cover great stuff. Like typo­graphic art. You can cur­ate a col­lec­tion of things you love. And get updates on your favor­ite brands and stores. Such as Coulson Macleod. And share your discoveries.

Just look for the blue ice lolly.

Use Fancy to cre­ate a cata­log of your favor­ite things around the web and around the world.

When you find some­thing you love some­where on the web, you Fancy it.

And Coulson Macleod is on the Deals page.

This is our Fancy but­ton. Look­ing pretty fancy. Don’t you agree?

Fancy some­thing you love and unlock a spe­cial reward.

Related art­icles:

• Coulson Macleod On Facebook
• We’re Into The Spirit Of Christmas
• Top Drawer 2011; The Build-Up

Today Coulson Macleod is lov­ing the work of pho­to­grapher Andrew Moore.

The first col­lec­tion that cap­tiv­ated us was New York. The archi­tec­tural details…

And just swoon like we did over his pho­to­graphs taken in Cuba. Dis­tressed walls. Oh, so very Coulson Macleod.

Related art­icles:

• Coulson Macleod Loves Alex Profit
• Coulson Macleod Loves Nic­olas Mathéus