Here it is folks… The Coulson Macleod Sale…

40% off all Coulson Macleod typo­graphic art on our web­site. Includes bespoke word art. Please use the dis­count code: JANUARYSALE at the checkout.

Any print ordered in the sale will be dis­patched after 3^rd Janu­ary (if in stock). Bespoke and out-of-stock prints will be dis­patched the week start­ing 9^th Janu­ary 2012.

The Coulson Macleod sale is for a very lim­ited time only.

Say hello to Coulson Macleod’s new stockist.

Pretty nice hey?

This is Burford House. One of two stores run by the Burford Garden Com­pany.

Burford House is in Worcester­shire, between the mar­ket towns of Ten­bury Wells and Ludlow.

As well as this gor­geous Geor­gian man­sion, the Burford Garden Com­pany also has a store in Burford, Oxfordshire.

Burford Garden Com­pany focus on products of last­ing value and clas­sic design, often with a mod­ern twist. Well that per­fectly describes our typo­graphic art.

They say, “If there’s one thing we’ve learned in our 30 years, it’s that pas­sion inspires passion…and qual­ity is the key to a customer’s heart.” We second that. We’re all about pas­sion. And qual­ity. Pas­sion drives us. Qual­ity drives our customer.

Who fan­cies a trip to the Cotswolds?

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‘Mid­life Crisis’ print on solid lime­stone by Coulson Macleod

This is our ‘Mid­life Crisis’ print. Lovely rough pit­ted solid lime­stone. Dis­tressed typo­graphy. Avail­able framed or unframed. The ideal gift for a 40^th birthday.

And these are the words…

• Middle age is hav­ing the choice between two tempta­tions and choos­ing the one that’ll get you home earlier.
• What most people con­sider as vir­tue, when you reach middle age, is simply a loss of energy.
• Inside every middle-aged per­son is a younger per­son won­der­ing what’s happened.
• Middle age is when you turn off lights for eco­nom­ical rather than romantic reasons.
• When you reach middle age you can’t do any­thing everyday.
• Just remem­ber, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
• Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
• The first sign of middle age is dis­cov­er­ing that the volume knob also turns to the left.
• Middle age is when you still believe you will feel bet­ter in the morning.
• At the age of 20, we don’t care what the world thinks of us; at 30, we worry about what it is think­ing of us; at 40, we dis­cover that it wasn’t think­ing of us at all.
• Middle age is always fif­teen years older than you are.
• The secret of stay­ing young is to live hon­estly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

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‘Baby Gaga’ print on solid lime­stone by Coulson Macleod

This is our ‘Baby Gaga’ print. Lovely rough pit­ted solid lime­stone. Dis­tressed typo­graphy. Avail­able framed or unframed. The ideal gift for new parents.

And these are the words…

• Babies are such a nice way to start people.
• Chil­dren rein­vent your world for you.
• Hav­ing a child is surely the most beau­ti­fully irra­tional act that two people in love can commit.
• There are three reas­ons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right tem­per­at­ure; it comes in attract­ive con­tain­ers; and the cat can’t get it.
• Babies are always more trouble than you thought… and more wonderful.
• A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bank­roll smal­ler, home hap­pier, clothes shab­bier, the past for­got­ten, and the future worth liv­ing for.
• A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of respons­ib­il­ity at the other.
• The worst fea­ture of a new baby is its mother’s singing.
• Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvi­ous con­fec­tions, chil­dren tend to be sticky.
• A cry­ing baby is the best form of birth control.
• People who say they sleep like a baby usu­ally don’t have one.
• Mak­ing the decision to have a baby — it’s moment­ous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walk­ing out­side your body.

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Coulson Macleod are final­ists once again. Yippee!

Our typo­graphic art is in the finals of the Sheer­Luxe Online Shop­ping Awards 2011.

Cat­egory: House & Garden.

Sub-category: Art & Silver.

The other final­ists include Tiffany, Links of Lon­don, and Theo Fen­nell. Gulp! Pretty mega names we think you’ll agree.

And three lesser known jew­ellers Bray­brook & Brit­ten, Patrick Mav­ros, and Nigel Milne.

And us. Yes. The littlest biggest art busi­ness. Coulson Macleod.

How­ever, to win this award each com­pany has to get pub­lic votes. How we’re ever going to beat the likes of Tiffany is bey­ond us. But if you think we deserve to win, we’d be abso­lutely delighted if you’d click the link below and vote for Coulson Macleod.

Many thanks.

http://​www​.sheer​luxe​.com/​o​n​l​i​n​e​-​s​h​o​p​p​i​n​g​-​a​w​a​r​d​s​.​a​spx.

Little update.

Coulson Macleod has shipped typo­graphic art prints to homes and offices in Aus­tralia, Aus­tria, Bel­gium, Canada, Cyprus, Fin­land, France, Ger­many, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ire­land, Italy, Korea, Lebanon, Neth­er­lands, New Zea­l­and, Nor­way, Poland, Singa­pore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzer­land, United Arab Emir­ates, and right across the USA.

That’s 26 countries.

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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How many pieces of Coulson Macleod typo­graphic art can you spot?

This is the very cool Atelier du Pro­jet in Milan, which opened dur­ing Milan Design Week 2011. Atelier du Pro­jet is part concept store, part show­room, part exhib­i­tion space. A place that ‘sells ideas.’  And of course they sell Coulson Macleod typo­graphic art.

If you’d like to visit Atelier du Pro­jet, it can be found on the Via San Car­po­phorus 3, Milan.

Oh, and the answer is three.

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On Sat­urday, we (yes the entire com­pany of Coulson Macleod — that’s both Coulson & Macleod) hopped on the train and trav­elled down to London.

Liberty Lon­don had opened their doors for their Best of Brit­ish Design Open Call.

We’d atten­ded Liberty’s Best of Brit­ish back in April. And Liberty liked what they saw. But gave us an indic­a­tion that there were a couple of prints that they’d like more. And obvi­ously these weren’t the prints that we had car­ried down.

So off we went again. Second time lucky perhaps?

We waited for what seemed like an age in the hot rafters of the Liberty store. Ten­sion mount­ing. The beau­ti­ful people of Liberty scur­ried around with timers and clipboards.

Whilst we waited we chat­ted to some lovely tal­en­ted folk. One lady designed glass bowls. Another lady was a fash­ion designer.

Ed Burstell, Liberty’s Man­aging Dir­ector, passed right by us. Which made us even more nervous.

Finally it was our moment to pitch.

This time, not one, but two buy­ers were wait­ing for us.

And you wouldn’t believe who they were…

Michelle Alger. And Faye Too­good.

Now if you’re not par­tic­u­larly into who’s who at Liberty (and why would you be?) then these names won’t mean much. But you may have seen Ed and Michelle on BBC 2’s Britain’s Next Big Thing.

Michelle is the Buy­ing Man­ager for Homeware.

Faye Too­good is an interior styl­ist with her own stu­dio. And is BIG news. She does reg­u­lar con­sultancy work for designer Tom Dixon. She’s designed Liberty’s win­dows. She did a refit of Dover Street Mar­ket’s shoe depart­ment. And she’s cur­rently design­ing parts of the new Sel­fridges Hotel, due to open in 2012.

And they loved our art. They weren’t just being polite. They really loved it. Michelle Alger said that she’d never seen any­thing like it before. And she’s seen everything.

Amaz­ing!

But. And sad to say there is a but. Our typo­graphic art pieces are just not right for Liberty.

How­ever, they did tell us who they thought would like to stock Coulson Macleod art. And that, my friends, is who we’re con­tact­ing next. Watch this space.

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Coulson Macleod is up for not one, not two, but three Sheer­Luxe Online Shop­ping Awards!

How cool is that?

Please, please do go over and vote for us and our typo­graphic art. We’d be abso­lutely thrilled if you did.

You can find Coulson Macleod under the cat­egory House & Garden. Then the sub-categories

• Best for Art & Sil­ver Online
• Best for Home Accessor­ies Online

And you can find us under the cat­egory Wed­dings. Then the sub-cateogory

• Best for Wed­ding Gifts Online

We’re cross­ing our fin­gers and toes.