about
Design by Zag is a design studio based in Glasgow, Scotland.
We specialise in design for print, screen and spaces. Our design approach merges meticulous research with creative thinking. We craft identities, books, wayfinding, websites, signage, typography, exhibitions and objects for both our clients and ourselves.
If you want to talk to us about working together on your next project, please get in touch.
teaching
Visiting Lecturing at Edinburgh College of Art
January 2016 - Present
Graphic Design BA and MFA
Textile Design BA
Visiting Lecturing at Glasgow School of Art
Graphic Design M.Des Nov 2016
residencies
Test Unit, Civic House Glasgow
June 2017
GSA Building Blocks, GSA Reid Gallery
16th – 30th September 2016
Project Main Street, Beith
19th – 23rd April 2016
Inshriach Bothy, Aviemore
5th – 8th March 2016
workshops
Typology
Nothing to Say
Lettering Workshop
Paste up Workshop
Lettering Workshop
Trype GSA Caseroom
Project Main Street, Day of Action
talks
Pecha Kucha
The Whisky Bond, 20th June 2017
Pecha Kucha
Art School Union, 19th April 2017
Working Days Symposium
Reid Auditorium, 14th April 2017
Pecha Kucha
City of Glasgow College, 9th March 2016
GSA Singapore Emersion Students
August 2016
exhibitions
Foundry
SWG3, 17th August 2017
Pissed Modernism
Patriothall Gallery, 14th April 2017
Building Blocks Reid Gallery
GSA, 29th September 2016
Collaborative Projects
The Old Hairdressers, 20th September 2016
Foundry
The Old Hairdressers, 24th August 2016
Thype
On The Corner, 9th - 25th October 2015