Here’s a little sneak peek at our hand­made wed­ding invitation…

Recycled card­board. String. Hand-stamped tag. Very simple. Very Coulson Macleod.

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Coulson Macleod is exhib­it­ing at Top Drawer (stand C42) — the trade show at London’s Olympia, 11-13^th Septem­ber 2011.

This is our very first trade show. And there­fore hugely excit­ing (and pretty nerve-racking). But now the event is going to be even bet­ter for us, because we’ve been approved for both of Top Drawer’s spe­cial trails. Woohoo!

Renowned TV presenter and envir­on­mental cham­pion Oliver Heath (and author of design books that hap­pen to line our book­shelves) has lent his sup­port to Top Drawer’s accred­ited Eco-Trail.

Oliver’s stamp iden­ti­fies products that are:

* Pro­duced eth­ic­ally
* Under fair trade schemes
* Ideally made of sus­tain­able mater­i­als
* Bio­de­grad­able or reusable in some way

Our typo­graphic art­work has been selec­ted and will be clearly marked with the ‘Eco Trail cer­ti­fied by Oliver Heath’ sticker.
Oliver said, “As a designer it is essen­tial that I’m pick­ing up on key trends and find­ing ways to express these in the designs that I cre­ate; keep­ing them feel­ing fresh, con­tem­por­ary and excit­ing. Often these trends encour­age con­sumer­ism for its own sake. How­ever what we are see­ing now is a lar­ger cul­tural shift brought on by the impact of global reces­sion; from a short-term way of think­ing about our lives, and what we buy, to a more con­sidered long-term approach. The good news is that many of these changes encour­age a more sus­tain­able way of thinking; from sav­ing energy and resources to buy­ing good qual­ity, well-made products or just think­ing about the life­cycle of the pieces that we buy.”

And our typo­graphic art­work has also been selec­ted to be on the Product GB trail…

This is an ini­ti­at­ive that cham­pi­ons the national eco­nomy and locally-made products. With the effects of the down­turn still pre­val­ent in some areas of trade in the UK, buy­ing Brit­ish ensures our local eco­nomy is given the best pos­sible chance to flourish.

Product GB gives exhib­it­ors a chance to show­case their products that are made using mater­i­als sourced from the UK, and are designed and pro­duced locally.

Vis­it­ors to the show who fol­low the Product GB trail will off­set car­bon emis­sions incurred from goods trans­port­a­tion from over­seas. Sup­port for this ini­ti­at­ive also encour­ages fair-trade prac­tices, as the Product GB sticker denotes a trace­able source of man­u­fac­ture.
Demon­strate your sup­port for the national eco­nomy and buy Brit­ish at Top Drawer this Septem­ber. Keep an eye out for the Product GB logo as you make your way around the show.

Roll on Sunday. We are so ready.

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Couple of pieces of rather nice press Coulson Macleod has recently received for our much loved typo­graphic art…

Coun­try Homes & Interi­ors (Octo­ber 2011 issue) fea­tur­ing our ‘Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind’ hand­made print. The pan­elled back­board is made from reclaimed wood, which is then hand-painted and over-printed with dis­tressed image and typography.

Hitched (Autumn 2011 issue) fea­tur­ing our ‘I Love You’ hand­made print with a solid oak frame and ‘Solid Like A Rock’ print on solid limestone.

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Three new typo­graphic art prints. Intro­du­cing ‘The Block Col­lec­tion’. All very Coulson Macleod…

• hand­made
• reclaimed
• typo­graphy

For this art col­lec­tion we’ve hand-wrapped a block (35cm x 35cm) in nat­ural calico, and over­prin­ted and moun­ted it in a hand­made frame made from reclaimed wood. The inside of the frame is hand-painted in dif­fer­ent colours.

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

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Intro­du­cing our latest typo­graphic art col­lec­tion — Catchphrases…

Do you know who said these three fam­ous TV catch­phrases? Tell us in the com­ments box.

Our latest typo­graphic art col­lec­tion fea­tures a nat­ural hes­sian, hand-wrapped, block (35cm x 35cm), over­prin­ted with typo­graphy and moun­ted in a hand­made frame made from reclaimed wood. The inside of the frame is hand-painted white.

As is the way with Coulson Macleod, we retain any defects in the wood to add charm and char­ac­ter to the print, which can include (and often does) knot holes, nail holes, warps, and water marks. So not only do they look great, each typo­graphic art­work is totally unique.

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

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Check out London-born artist Robert Brad­ford’s recycled toy sculptures…

Robert cre­ates these life-size sculp­tures from, mainly, dis­carded plastic toys.

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Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art is in the Christ­mas issue of Nor­we­gian magazine Elle Interior.

As you can see Elle Interior has fea­tured a print from our Winter Trees collection.

Coulson Macleod’s hand­made frame and pan­elled back­board made from reclaimed wood and prin­ted with dis­tressed image and typography

Coulson Macleod’s hand­made frame and pan­elled back­board made from reclaimed wood and prin­ted with dis­tressed image and typography

Our hand­made Winter Tree prints are made from reclaimed wood (the tim­ber star­ted out life as Vic­torian roof tim­bers to be pre­cise). We then white­wash the wood and over-print with a dis­tressed image and dis­tressed typo­graphy. Well it wouldn’t be a Coulson Macleod without some dis­tressed typo­graphy would it?

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Once again Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art has been chosen by interi­ors style bible Elle Dec­or­a­tion to fea­ture in their fab­ulous magazine.

ELLE Dec­or­a­tion, Novem­ber 2010 issue.

ELLE Dec­or­a­tion, Novem­ber 2010 issue.

Elle Dec­or­a­tion chose ‘The Roar of Tree and Crack of Branches’ typo­graphic print from our Winter Trees collection.

We hand make the frame and pan­elled back­board from reclaimed wood. Actu­ally the wood used to be Vic­torian roof tim­bers. How cool is that? We paint the wood and print on top with dis­tressed image and typography.

Each art­work is totally unique. And totally unique to Coulson Macleod.

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Yes, that’s right. Four. An unlucky num­ber if you’re Chinese. But not if you love Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art. Launched 1^st Septem­ber, our four new collections…

‘Wilde Grey’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

‘Wilde Blue’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

‘Wilde Red’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

‘Nap­kin Not Ser­vi­ette’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art.

‘Lunch Not Din­ner’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art.

‘Pud­ding Not Dessert’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art.

‘Hel­vetica’. Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art on Vic­torian roof timbers.

‘Futura’. Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art on Vic­torian roof timbers.

‘Times’. Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art on Vic­torian roof timbers.

‘John Len­non’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made solid oak framed art.

‘Bob Dylan’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made solid oak framed art.

‘Keith Richards’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made solid oak framed art.

Hand­made. Hand painted. Reclaimed wood. Dis­tressed typo­graphy.

So very Coulson Macleod. Unique. By design.