Not For Squares

Coulson Macleod can be seen in this month’s issue of Red (not a fea­ture, unfor­tu­nately, but we’ve got a lovely big advert.)

Now we don’t do a great deal of advert­ising, because advert­ising costs lots of money. We’d like to though. We appear monthly in Elle Dec­or­a­tion and Livin­getc. And if you fol­low this blog, you’ll know that we did advert­ise in the Janu­ary issue of Elle.

Our adverts always attract lovely new cus­tom­ers, which is obvi­ously the point. But there is also a part of us that simply loves open­ing a magazine and see­ing ourselves in print!

As you know, we had our Coulson Macleod art­work pho­to­graphed pro­fes­sion­ally last Tues­day. We hired a pretty little chapel and a com­mer­cial pho­to­grapher. We had piles of props, some of which are ours, some we bor­rowed, and some we bought just for the occa­sion. And here are a couple of the shots taken…

We’ve got 174 shots to work through. As you can see from the bot­tom photo, some of the shots need crop­ping (we obvi­ously don’t want to see wall sock­ets in the final image). But we love the over­all feel. We were lucky with the light that day too, which flooded through the chapel win­dows and meant that most of the shots were taken without need­ing arti­fi­cial light.

Can’t wait to put them on our new-look web­site. In fact we can’t wait to show-off our new website.

So if you’re from a magazine and fancy fea­tur­ing Coulson Macleod art, then we have plenty of high-res images to send you.

Yes, that’s right, Coulson Macleod is one today!

The idea to sell art popped into our heads just over a year ago. And by the 4^th March 2009 Coulson Macleod became an offi­cial business.

We launched our web­site on the 20^th, and cel­eb­rated our first sale of a lim­ited edi­tion print two weeks later. Now, in the nor­mal world of retail, two weeks would be rather a long time to wait for a cus­tomer. But at this stage you couldn’t have found us by search­ing on the inter­net. And we hadn’t advert­ised. We were ecstatic!

It’s been a bril­liant year.

We’ve shipped prints to far away lands. Aus­tralia. New Zea­l­and. Canada. And to prac­tic­ally every state in Amer­ica. Cus­tom­ers some­times buy more than one print at a time. Cus­tom­ers are com­ing back to buy more. For birth­day gifts, wed­ding gifts, or another print for their own walls.

So we’d like to take this oppor­tun­ity to thank all our cus­tom­ers. And to every­one all around the world who has taken the time to write about us. Whether you’ve just pos­ted an image of our art­work with a link back to us, or writ­ten a gush­ing wordy art­icle, we still get totally excited at see­ing our name out there.

We’ll be drink­ing a toast to our next year, which we’ve already got heaps of plans and designs for.

Cheers!

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art

The per­fect gift for Valentine’s Day.

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion (x 250) vintage-style typo­graphic art print. £149.

Free deliv­ery within the UK.

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art

The per­fect gift for Valentine’s Day.

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion (x 250) vintage-style typo­graphic art print. £149.

Free deliv­ery within the UK.

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art

The per­fect gift for Valentine’s Day.

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion (x 250) vintage-style typo­graphic art print. £149.

Free deliv­ery within the UK.

Coulson Macleod’s latest col­lec­tion, Curio, has come about because we love rum­ma­ging around old junk shops. We live in hope of unearth­ing some amaz­ing long-forgotten treas­ure. We usu­ally don’t. So we’ve recre­ated two actual adverts, just the sort of thing we’d like to find, but didn’t.

Believe it or not these are actual adverts. We’ve given them the Coulson Macleod treat­ment — dis­tressed text, rough-sawn solid oak frame, for a vin­tage, worn, and well-loved look.

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art

Coulson Macleod lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic art

Accord­ing to Alexa, the clever folk who meas­ure web­site traffic, Coulson Macleod is ranked 2,541,410 in the world.  Admit­tedly we’ve got a long way to go before we get to num­ber one, but this fig­ure is up 190% in the last three months. One day we’ll be the num­ber one for typo­graphic art, and lim­ited edi­tion art, which will be good enough for me.

And if you only take our rank in the US we’re 386,653 the most pop­u­lar web­site, which does sound so much better.

Since we launched Coulson Macleod Lim­ited Edi­tion back in March (2009) it’s been really excit­ing to see who and where people are talk­ing about us, and we log all the best bits on our Face­book page.  I’ve seen things writ­ten about us in all sorts of lan­guages includ­ing Thai, and I just have to hope they’ve writ­ten nice things as it’s com­pletely inde­cipher­able to me.

Take a look and we’d love you to become a fan too.

Got a delight­ful email yes­ter­day from the online store Not On The High Street.

They want to sell Coulson Macleod art.

Not On The High Street is the lead­ing, award-winning, online con­tem­por­ary mar­ket­place cre­ated exclus­ively for small inde­pend­ent UK busi­nesses.  Appar­ently they decline over 95% of new applic­a­tions in order to main­tain their quality.

They also have a great-looking cata­logue that show­cases the products too.

Lucky us!  Obvi­ously if you’re read­ing this you already know all about Coulson Macleod and can buy our art dir­ect from our web­site.