If there was any day to pro­mote our Union Jack typo­graphic art, then it def­in­itely is today.

‘Rule Brit­an­nia’ is a huge can­vas (76.2cm x 117cm x 4.5cm) — a funky typo­graphic twist on the Brit­ish flag. Here’s to being patriotic.

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Last night we received an email from the organ­isers of the Dirty Dan­cing Fest­ival. Yep! There is a Dirty Dan­cing Festival.

Why did they con­tact Coulson Macleod?  Well, they want us to donate our ‘Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner’ print for their silent auc­tion, which is being held after the ‘Time of Your Life’ Gala. How won­der­fully cheesy is that?

And the best bit about the Fest­ival? It’s being held at the lake where they filmed this…

The sched­ule of events made me smile. You can take part in a water­melon car­ry­ing con­test, a cast look-a-like con­test, and there’s even a lake lift com­pet­i­tion (I’d be inclined to give this a go!)

Little fact for you: the film was set in the sum­mer, yet the lake lift was filmed in Octo­ber (there’s no close-up shots of their faces as appar­ently their lips were blue!) Since the leaves were already turn­ing, they had to paint the leaves in the back­ground and if you look closely you can see where they missed a few in one spot.

Whilst at the Fest­ival you can have salsa, shag, and mambo les­sons and then watch the A-Lure dan­cers per­form the moves correctly.

So for any­one inter­ested, the Fest­ival is being held 17^th — 18^th Septem­ber at Lake Lure in North Car­o­lina. And if the pro­spect of spend­ing your week­end sur­roun­ded by fel­low enthu­si­asts recre­at­ing Baby and Johnny moments is not a big enough pull, the loc­a­tion itself is gor­geous. In fact National Geo­graphic declared Lake Lure as one of the ten most beau­ti­ful man-made lakes in the world.

We haven’t decided yet to donate our print. What do you think?