Innovation is seeing things from a different perspective. We are your product design and innovation consultancy with fresh eyes.

A diverse and multi-disciplinary team that deliver new product development and improvements to existing portfolios with hard-earned lessons gained over 20 years.

Numnuts

Agricultural new product development with manufacturing

A multi-million pound agri-tech project delivering effective pain relief improving animal welfare. A project that truly demonstrates how we practice what we preach.

Survitec

Commercial innovation development and new product development support

An innovation partnership spanning a decade where we've not only helped identify what to develop next, but how to make improvements and efficiencies along the way.

Bars.Grips.Rings.

Consumer product development

Empowering entrepreneurs along the journey to achieving their ambitions from an idea through to manufacturing.

Peacock

Industrial equipment

Rewriting the brief from cost-engineering to re-imagining

Cashmaster

Commercial flag ship product development

Designing generations of flagship cash counting products that helped grow the business significantly.

Moredun Research Institute

Drug manufacturing design and start-up scaling

Commercialising academic research by developing batch production manufacturing equipment for a novel new vaccine.

The Queen's Baton

Marketing feature piece that simply worked!

Designing the symbol of Glasgow's 2014 Commonwealth Games through a concise marketing project that balance stakeholder desires, budget and timeframes.

Tannoy

Consumer and commercial product development

By being an industrial design partner, we housed amazing sound technology in beauty across multiple product portfolios creating best seller after best seller.

Our Innovation Partners

Other case studies

Delivering commercial success across multiple industry sectors by identifying new product opportunities and improvements and doing them.

Curious. Creative. Considered. Commercial.

From our home in Glasgow, 4c has provided the agility, collaboration and direction for large multi-national companies to SMEs and start-ups to help realise innovative solutions and bring large scale growth and efficiency savings with good product design. Helping clients stay ahead.

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