As we men­tioned in the blog post below (Greet­ings) our typo­graphic art has been turned into fine art note­cards. Don’t they look marvelous?

The above photo was taken by Print & Pat­tern blog who atten­ded Pro­gress­ive Greet­ings Live, the trade show where Attic Art Pub­lish­ing (the com­pany respons­ible for tak­ing our art­work and turn­ing it into note­cards) launched.

Thought you may like to know a few of the other artists that Attic Art Pub­lish­ing are work­ing with, along­side Coulson Macleod.

Fiona Howard.

Known for design­ing such con­tem­por­ary clas­sics as Sanderson’s Dan­delion Clocks.

For the past 25 years Fiona has built her repu­ta­tion in home fur­nish­ing tex­tile design, work­ing closely with her cli­ents in Lon­don, Paris, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.

Her stu­dio is in Brighton, over­look­ing the sea. Here Fiona cre­ates eleg­ant and vibrant col­lec­tions of con­tem­por­ary tex­tile designs, using tra­di­tional skills such as lino cut, mono­print, and intric­ately cut paper techniques.

Fiona has just cre­ated this new design for West Elm, the very well known fur­niture and home décor chain in the States.

Clay Sin­clair.

An Oxford based artist, ori­gin­ally from New Zealand.

Clay has forged a suc­cess­ful career paint­ing ‘back­wards’ on to his unique medium of perspex/ plexi­glass. He reg­u­larly uses text and loves to pro­voke with each piece he cre­ates. The end res­ults are lumin­ous, stim­u­lat­ing and are often laced with a little humour.

His inspir­a­tion primar­ily comes from observing the way we are and how we relate to each other and our envir­on­ment. Issues of ego, rela­tion­ship, and soci­ety are themes that reg­u­larly appear and influ­ence his work.

He is exclus­ively rep­res­en­ted by Woolff Gal­lery, where his work has gained a repu­ta­tion for its bold­ness, irrev­er­ence, and originality.

Clay’s paint­ings are in private and cor­por­ate col­lec­tions through­out the world.

Dee Beale.

Is a print­maker. Pic­tured is her gor­geous hand pulled gocco screen print, Red Anemones.

Eloise Ren­ouf.

A tex­tile and sta­tion­ery designer liv­ing in Not­ting­ham, Eloise has designed prints for stu­dios in Lon­don and New York, and has co-run a sta­tion­ery busi­ness. She is inspired by mid cen­tury pat­terns and prints.

Pic­tured is ‘Circle Stems’ a lim­ited edi­tion giclee print.

Related art­icles:

• Gifts. Presents. Token of Affection.
• ‘1,000 More Greet­ings: Cre­at­ive Cor­res­pond­ence Designed For All Occasions’

Very excit­ing news today. We’ve known about this since Janu­ary, but obvi­ously couldn’t men­tion any­thing until we were cer­tain. Coulson Macleod can now be seen on fine art notecards.

What do you think?

The cards are being pub­lished and mar­keted by Attic Art Pub­lish­ing, a brand new card com­pany, who launched them­selves at last week’s Pro­gress­ive Greet­ings Live 2011 at London’s Busi­ness Design Centre. And the response was amazing.

Attic emailed us fol­low the show say­ing, “Just wanted to say a massive thank you for being involved and help­ing us launch the new card com­pany this week. We really couldn’t have hoped for a bet­ter reac­tion, from not only retail­ers but people within the pub­lish­ing industry. We were also selec­ted by two of the nom­in­ated top five inde­pend­ent retail­ers in the UK to spend their ‘golden prize tick­ets’ with us. A real hon­our and a good start to the order book. Once again many thanks.”

The ‘golden tick­ets’ are given as prizes to retail­ers who won Best Inde­pend­ent at the show and were worth amounts of money to spend at a pub­lisher of their choice. Attic attrac­ted two of these out of the five awar­ded. So there was lots of excite­ment and press pho­tos around the Attic stand.

The note­card range from Attic focuses on work from lead­ing and emer­ging pho­to­graph­ers, con­tem­por­ary artists, design­ers, and illus­trat­ors. The cards will be tar­geted towards inde­pend­ent gal­ler­ies, shops, and middle to top end retail­ers, as well as museums. Not for the mass mar­ket. Very Coulson Macleod.

Although Attic Art Pub­lish­ing is a new com­pany, the two founders, Gyr King and Sian Rees have over 25 years in art pub­lish­ing. Between them they have pro­duced lim­ited edi­tions, fine art prints, and sta­tion­ary products for retail­ers and museums both in the UK and abroad. Cli­ents include IKEA, Hab­itat, John Lewis, Tate Museum, The V&A, National Por­trait Gal­lery, Conde Nast, War­hol Estate, and Dis­ney to name a few.

Coulson Macleod is in good hands, don’t you agree?

Related art­icles:

• Coulson Macleod’s Loy­alty Club
• Happy 2^nd Birth­day Coulson Macleod

I’ve men­tioned tex­tile designer Stephanie Miles (who owns and runs Smiles Design) on a pre­vi­ous post as I fell in love with her hand­made black and white wooden bird­cage cards.

Stephanie emailed me yes­ter­day to say she has now launched Bower­bird, her new ven­ture to spe­cific­ally sell her cards and jewellery.

Cur­rently Bower­bird designs are only sold via the online mar­ket­place Not On The High Street.

The reason for the name? Appar­ently Stephanie is fas­cin­ated with the little Vogelkop Bower­bird, a nat­ive of New Guinea, who are so named because of the beau­ti­ful shel­ters or ‘bowers’ they build.

Stephanie says she’s a bit like a Bower­bird “a bit plain, but likes dec­or­at­ive things and col­ours”. The Bower­birds dec­or­ate their shel­ters with incred­ible detail that show a nat­ural eye for attract­ive design. Some use col­our­ful flowers and leaves, some col­lect stones or other objects, which they lay out in patterns.

For any­one inter­ested in learn­ing more about the Bower­bird, here’s a clip from BBC One’s nature pro­gramme Life…

The Vogelkop Bower­bird. Nar­rated by David Attenborough.

Stephanie has many more designs up her sleeve so keep an eye on her Not On The High Street shop.

I’ve been want­ing to show­case the amaz­ing hand­made cards by Ruby Wren for awhile now. All of the designs are simple, mod­ern, and totally lovely. Ruby Wren’s cards and envel­opes are 100% recycled and bleach free and are made using ele­phant and rhino poo!  

This small busi­ness, run by Hay­ley Mitchell, also hap­pens to be pretty local to Coulson Macleod — which makes me think that this is rather a cre­at­ive pocket of England.