The Jamie Oliver Found­a­tion once again held their annual fun­draiser ‘A Big Night Out With Jamie’.

And once again Coulson Macleod was delighted to be involved.

Shored­itch Town Hall. Venue for ‘A Big Night Out With Jamie’ 2011

Coulson Macleod’s bespoke print designed for ‘A Big Night Out With Jamie’

And once again our bespoke typo­graphic print was won by David Ellender, Global CEO of Fre­mantle Media who paid the final bid of £950 in the silent auc­tion. Last year David won the bid on another bespoke print we designed for the same event, pay­ing £1,100 for it. He’s obvi­ously a man of impec­cable taste.

And once again we received Jamie’s latest recipe book. This time it was ‘Jamie’s Great Bri­tain’, signed by the man him­self, of course. And a lovely thank you let­ter. Jamie said they raised £135,000 on the night. Which is pretty impress­ive in these fin­an­cially leaner times.

The Jamie Oliver Found­a­tion also emailed us to say, “We want to thank you very much for your end­less sup­port. It def­in­itely would not have been pos­sible without your gen­er­ous donation.”

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Other details of the night.…

Kate Nash per­formed. Ben Shep­h­ard hos­ted. Jools wore orange (thanks Daily Mail for that snip­pet). And not for­get­ting Gen­naro Con­t­aldo (as promp­ted by Jamie on Twitter)..

Jamie Oliver’s tweet to Coulson Macleod

“The Jamie Oliver Found­a­tion is a registered char­ity whose mis­sion is to empower, edu­cate and engage as many people as pos­sible to love and enjoy good food. This means learn­ing how to cook, under­stand­ing where food comes from, and recog­niz­ing the power it can have on our health, hap­pi­ness, and even fin­ances. We do this through teach­ing, train­ing and employ­ment, and also by mak­ing good clear inform­a­tion avail­able to as many people as possible.”

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Coulson Macleod bespoke typo­graphic art has been fea­tured in the 100^th issue of Wed­ding Ideas magazine.

Wed­ding Ideas fea­tured our ‘What’ bespoke typo­graphic print call­ing it a great gift idea. And indeed it is.

Our bespoke ‘What’ print fea­tures the words (writ­ten by ourselves) from our lim­ited edi­tion ‘What Is Love?’ print (see below)…

‘What Is Love?’ lim­ited edi­tion print by Coulson Macleod

You can per­son­al­ise your art­work by adding your own names and your wed­ding date at the bot­tom. You can also choose the col­our of the text.

And then, you can choose which frame or base mater­ial you’d like your bespoke art­work prin­ted on, such as.…

Bespoke ‘What’ print on solid ash block (in gift box)

Bespoke ‘What’ print on solid lime­stone with reclaimed wood frame

A very per­sonal wed­ding gift idea don’t you think?

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The second in our series of per­son­al­ized typo­graphic paper art prints.

This bespoke art­work is based on our ‘Jamie’ print.

A per­fect gift don’t you think?

Our bespoke paper prints are prin­ted onto a lovely heavy-weight 350gsm uncoated fine art paper with a tex­tured fin­ish. And they are pro­fes­sion­ally framed too, by Fine Art Trade Guild framers. Just to prove what a pro­fes­sional job the fram­ing is, here’s the back…

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How do you fancy a piece of art that’s totally per­sonal to you?

Well you can, just like this lucky customer.

Based on our best-selling ‘Dec­ades’ prints, we cre­ated this one-off bespoke typo­graphic art piece called ‘40 Things To Love About…’

Isn’t it great?

Our bespoke paper prints are prin­ted onto a lovely heavy-weight 350gsm uncoated fine art paper with a tex­tured fin­ish. And they are pro­fes­sion­ally framed too, by Fine Art Trade Guild framers. Just to prove what a pro­fes­sional job the fram­ing is, here’s the back…

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Here’s our latest cre­ation; a bespoke typo­graphic art­work for Casco Con­tract­ors Inc, a con­struc­tion com­pany based in California…

This per­son­al­ised typo­graphic art­work con­sists of four prints, each one meas­ur­ing 52cm x 52cm x 8cm. We loved the idea of hav­ing four sep­ar­ate prints (like build­ing blocks) that when placed together spells out ‘if you build it they will come’. Should fill their recep­tion wall quite nicely, don’t you think?

Cheryl Osborn, the Pres­id­ent and founder of Casco fell in love with our nat­ur­ally weather-rusted steel sheets.  And she loved the hand­made reclaimed wood frames too.

And we rather love the fin­ished design.

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Coulson Macleod now has a brand new web­site to make choos­ing your piece of bespoke typo­graphic art that much simpler.

Many of our typo­graphic art prints can be per­son­al­ised to your specification. We’ve grouped together our most pop­u­lar designs for you to choose from, and each style can be cus­tom­ised with your own choice of words and colour.

But it doesn’t end there…

You can also choose which of our exclus­ive hand­made frames or nat­ural base mater­i­als you want your art­work prin­ted on.

For the major­ity of our designs you can choose from solid oak, reclaimed frames, reclaimed blocks, nat­ural fab­rics, rus­ted steel, solid lime­stone, recycled paper, or canvas.

Simply pick a design and a frame and tell us what you want prin­ted, and we do the rest, res­ult­ing in a one-off piece of bespoke art­work that’s totally per­sonal to you.

For instance, if you love our ‘What Is Love?’ lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic print (pic­tured below)…

‘What Is Love?’ by Coulson Macleod

You can now take this design and per­son­al­ise it by adding your name and date at the bot­tom (great idea for wed­ding gifts) and put the design on a choice of frames such as…

‘What’ bespoke — mater­ial print (framed)

‘What’ bespoke — on Reclaimed Tim­ber Block (in gift box)

‘What’ bespoke — Fine Art Paper Print (framed)

‘What’ bespoke — Solid Oak Print

Please ‘like’ the Coulson Macleod Face­book page to keep up-to-date with all our spe­cial offers, new col­lec­tions, and giveaways.

Story time. This is for any­one who has ever had to deal with customs.

One of our lovely cus­tom­ers, Geor­gia, bought and cre­ated a bespoke typo­graphic print from us. A sur­prise gift for her boy­friend; for his 30^th birth­day. The boy­friend (who we shall call Poor Boy­friend) lives in Beirut.

Geor­gia did tell Poor Boy­friend to expect a UPS deliv­ery to his office. Of course he had no idea what the deliv­ery was.

A few days later Poor Boy­friend gets a call from UPS. They can’t deliver the box. It’s being held by cus­toms. He’ll need to go to the aiport to col­lect it himself.

A minor hassle per­haps. The good natured Poor Boy­friend asks if they know what the gift is. Well you would, wouldn’t you?

He’s told it’s a piece of art by Coulson. Now we like to think the whole world has heard about us, but of course they haven’t. And UPS had missed off the cru­cial Macleod part. So Poor Boy­friend was a bit clueless.

So, before set­ting off to the air­port, he did a quick Google search for images by Coulson. And up pops Peter Coulson Pho­to­graphy. He’s an Aus­tralian pho­to­grapher, based in Mel­bourne. Mainly fash­ion and glam­our shots. Some of it is rather raunchy. Pretty con­tro­ver­sial stuff to hang on your wall in the lib­eral west. But Poor Boy­friend is liv­ing in Lebanon.

Poor Boy­friend stumbles across a couple of shots that start to make him sweat. And not in a good way. One in par­tic­u­lar stood out. A heav­ily preg­nant naked woman wear­ing a face veil, high heels, and hold­ing a machine gun. Another naked woman is wear­ing a KKK hood burn­ing a cross. Gulp!

Poor Boy­friend is scared. Surely Geor­gia wouldn’t send him some­thing that could get him arres­ted? Think you’d be sweat­ing at this point too, wouldn’t you?

We’re guess­ing that the trip to the air­port was not par­tic­u­larly pleasant.

Massive relief to find the gift is just a harm­less bespoke Coulson Macleod print.

But the pain doesn’t end there.

Poor Boy­friend is then told there is a prob­lem with the invoice value. Appar­ently the value of the print is incor­rect. Des­pite the fact that we put the value on the invoice. You would assume that the com­pany send­ing the item knows the value of its own products? But no. This is cus­toms; Beirut style. Poor Boyfriend’s print is now val­ued at $2,000. Not the £249 we’d put down. He’s then told he’ll have to pay import duty. There is a long and heated exchange. And after pay­ing off sev­eral cus­tom offi­cials and wast­ing over half a day Poor Boy­friend is released.

Poor Boy­friend gets home. He rings Georgia.

But you know what?

Des­pite fear­ing for his free­dom. His san­ity. The hassle. And the huge amount of money to cor­rupt offi­cials. Poor Boy­friend is blown away with his gift!

And so are his mates.

And so is Geor­gia when she goes to visit him. “I couldn’t believe how spec­tac­u­lar it was. The pho­to­graphs on your web­site really don’t do it any justice.”

If you have a story that you’d like to share, do email us at hello@​coulsonmacleod.​com and we may write about it too.

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Do you think your work­place would bene­fit by hav­ing some new art?

Wouldn’t it be even bet­ter if this new art was cre­ated just for your business?

Coulson Macleod can do just this. Send us all your rel­ev­ant words. Use ones that pro­mote what your com­pany does, after all it will be read by all your wait­ing cus­tom­ers or cli­ents. And we turn those words into a cool piece of per­son­al­ised typo­graphic art.

What words would you use?

This is a bespoke typo­graphic can­vas print that Coulson Macleod cre­ated for a new beauty salon/clinic called Beauty Defined.

Your Coulson Macleod can­vas typo­graphic art print would be of museum qual­ity. Each print is hand-mounted and fin­ished with the finest mater­i­als by expert local craftsmen.

Your canvas-mounted print would be pro­duced using the very latest giclée print tech­no­logy. Heavy­weight 450gsm, 100% cot­ton, Bril­liance Chro­mata White premium fine art matte can­vas is used to ensure col­our repro­duc­tion and longev­ity are at their abso­lute max­imum. This can­vas is optical bright­ener agent free (optical bright­ener causes yel­low­ing over time) and has passed the Blue Wool stand­ards test for light fast­ness (up to 75 years) and is one of only a few canvases to achieve this.

Your can­vas art­work is hand-sprayed with five coats of Glam­our II Giclée Matt Var­nish to ensure max­imum pro­tec­tion and a smooth con­sist­ent fin­ish. This is a non-yellowing, water-based var­nish that enhances the col­our of pig­men­ted and ultra­chrome inks on matte media and increases res­ist­ance to image fad­ing. It also pro­tects images against mois­ture and abra­sion. The com­bin­a­tion of Glam­our II Matt Var­nish with Bril­liance Chro­mata White can­vas deliv­ers the most archival and colour-stable fine art repro­duc­tion available.

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Art­icle on me in today’s local paper…

A busi­ness­wo­man is in the final three of a major regional award after turn­ing the design com­pany she star­ted from her front room two years ago into a thriv­ing global brand.

Han­nah Macleod is up for Small Busi­ness of the Year in the final in the East Mid­lands Women of Worth Awards.

Ms Macleod said: “This is a really big award. Last year more than 1,000 people entered that cat­egory alone.

“It’s abso­lutely phe­nom­enal. If I don’t win, just being in the final three is incredible.”

The awards aim to recog­nise the com­mit­ment and con­tri­bu­tion made by busi­ness women to the East Mid­lands eco­nomy and the achieve­ment of the region’s entre­pren­eur­ial and forward-thinking women.

Without any busi­ness loans from banks since set­ting up in 2009, Ms Macleod and her part­ner Mark Coulson have been ship­ping their typo­graphic art to 21 countries.

Last year chef Jamie Oliver com­mis­sioned a piece for a char­ity auc­tion. The oak-framed piece, which fea­tured Mr Oliver’s catch phrases, like “pukka”, “bacon sarnies” and “geezer”, was bought for £1,100 by the chief exec­ut­ive of a global media company.

Ms Macleod said: “Every day is amaz­ing for us. It’s not a job, it’s not a busi­ness, it’s a passion. We enjoy every side of it.”

She will meet a panel of judges on Feb­ru­ary 11, and the win­ner will be announced at the Women in Busi­ness Con­fer­ence at the East Mid­lands Con­fer­ence Centre on March 8.

Ms Macleod reached the finals of the Best Online Busi­ness Award in the national Mumpren­eur Awards last year.

The busi­ness, Coulson Macleod, also reached the finals in the Northamp­ton­shire Busi­ness Excel­lence Awards for Inter­na­tional Trader of the Year.

But Ms Macleod has vowed not to rest on her laurels.

She said: “We will con­tinue doing exactly what we are doing. Whatever it is we are doing it right.”

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As Coulson Macleod con­tin­ues to grow and develop, so do our typo­graphic art col­lec­tions. We’ve just updated our Bespoke page and now offer our bespoke typo­graphic art onto rus­ted steel, solid lime­stone, and white­washed frames made from reclaimed timber.

One of our rus­ted steel prints that can now be personalized

One of our solid lime­stone prints that can now be personalized

One of our white­washed reclaimed wood prints that can now be personalized

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