Category: Design for Good

THE CHALLENGE:The health and care sector is on a mission to harness the best of digital technologies to improve the care and well-being of people in Scotland. NHS Education for Scotland (NES) – a Special Health Board designed to promote best practice and life-long learning for all health and care staff – challenged frog to design easy-access learning for its workforces, in a bid to transform digital literacy and competencies across the sector. OUR RESPONSE:We began an eight-week user-centred discovery, […]

Collaborative Futures Project: Collaborative Futures is a four-month design project in partnership with The Innovation School at The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) and the Centre for Civic Innovation (CCI) at Glasgow City Council. This year’s brief is titled– Glasgow’s Civic Futures: Open Citizenship & Data Experiences in 2032. It asks the question, “What if data-enabled experiences were embedded into our actual communities and neighbourhood environments of Glasgow in 2032?” Aims and Outcomes: The research carried out builds on the […]

‘Delivering for Families?’ is a series of animations highlighting the reality of hardships being faced by many of Scotland’s most vulnerable children and their parents. Braw Talent were commissioned by Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Save the Children to summarise and bring to life a report in response to the Scottish Government’s Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan. We collaborated with the team to explore how we could convey the key findings and stories in three key areas – childcare, benefits and […]

The Kilts Feed Kids campaign was designed to help promote and raise awareness for the Launch Foods charity and Unity Grill social enterprise in Glasgow and Ayrshire. Launch Foods marry the problems of food waste and food poverty using surplus food from large companies to provide warm, nutritious meals to children in primary schools across Glasgow and Unity Grill is a Social Restaurant in Ayrshire where 100% of the profits are used to challenge food poverty. The reason is to […]

Since the start of the first lockdown, the Maguires team has worked from home. One of the unexpected results of this move is the ability for each member of the team to feel closer to their local community. This connection led to a unique collaboration between our Creative Director Chris Hannah and his local community council in Cambuslang. After reading in the local press about plans to create a series of murals to brighten up neglected sites across the town, […]

The project encompasses the complete renaissance of The Burrell Collection – from the opening up of the building to the complete re-imaging of the exhibitions and the visitor offer. The Burrell, opened in 1983, an icon of 20th century design is one of Scotland’s internationally recognised modern architectural triumphs. However, it was riddled with difficulties – a leaking roof, problems with physical access and building services, with limited opportunities for display and engagement. The team delivered a profound transformation that […]

Girls United is a non-profit organisation based in the UK and Central America that has a vision for girls around the world to have equal access to sport and to provide them with skills that will allow them to fulfil their potential, on and off the pitch. Due to negative stereotypes and limiting gender roles, girls and women do not have access to the same opportunities, resulting in gender gaps that go beyond the pitch and into society. Girls United’s […]