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Mark wins ‘Young Designer of the Year’!


Congratulations to our industrial designer, Mark Penver, for winning ‘Young Designer of the Year’ at this year's Plastics Industry Awards. Mark has worked with us for over 2 years and he won the…

Intern antics – what does gardening have to do with product design?


Summer is over and at the Design Hub it's time to wave goodbye to Rob, our Summer 2015 intern. He's left us with a shiny new 'Innovation Garden' in our office (complete with grass!) and an exciting…

5 Years of designing for Tannoy


  We have all heard a ‘message over the Tannoy’. The word 'Tannoy' is the most popular way to describe a public address system at an open-air event or a train station. But of course Tannoy is…

4c championing new Intellectual Property initiative


We were recently invited by our friends at Metis Partners to join their newly launched IP100 Club and are looking forward to meeting other members of the club at events in the coming months.

Robert Riley | 2015 Summer intern


  Hi, my names Rob and I have recently started the summer internship programme here at 4c Design. Graduating in 2013 with a degree in Product & Transportation Design, from the University of…

Dougal Deans | 4c’s new Design Engineer


Hello, I'm Dougal the new Design Engineer. In the first three and a bit years of my young career, I’ve stepped out of the conventional path taken by most design engineers. Since finishing my Product…

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Are we really Numnuts?


  Today the 4c team are heading to the Royal Highland Show (18th to 21st June) at Ingliston to announce Numnuts: a project we have been working on for the last 4 years. We are very excited to…

£5000 Grant Support for Product Design in Scotland


Our business is product design & development, so we are excited that Scottish Enterprise is offering a helping hand to companies trying to do just that. Their new By Design grant contributes up…