Product Design Scotland
Scott Jarvie is a designer working across a number of creative fields. The work produced ranges from best selling mass produced products to finely crafted one-off furniture pieces and from high end luxury packaging to work at an architectural scale. What unites these seemingly disparate strands is a consistent highly creative approach underpinned by a robust practical understanding. The studio’s output is defined by a deep respect for context, process and material.
Clients range from established brands to small, highly innovative start-ups.
A world class network of skilled collaborators, craftspeople and manufacturers allows us to create holistic teams, that can be adapted to project specific challenges, resulting in an exciting, inspiring and successful design outcomes.
Each project begins with the drive to thoroughly understand the creative challenges facing our clients, partners or collaborators. It is this knowledge coupled with our expertise in delivering designs from concept to completion that equips us to create relevant and progressive solutions. We focus on solving problems and minimising compromise, creating solutions that surpass functional and aesthetic expectations, whilst ensuring relevance, manufacturability and efficiency.
Intelligent
We have successfully designed and developed a wide range of best selling products, a number of which have resulted in novel intellectual property, which has led to successful patent applications. Our approach is aided by broad experience in engaging with everything from proof of concept prototyping to high finish ergonomic studies and from photorealistic visualisations to the production of CAD files for manufacture.
Areas of focus
- Research & Analysis
- Concept Generation
- Design Direction & Strategy
- Aesthetic Styling
- Physical Prototyping
- Design For Manufacture
- Project Management
- Product Visualisation & Photography
- Factory Communication
- Future Gazing & Trend Analysis
- Visual Presentation & Product Graphics
Scott Jarvie
The son of a graphic designer and an automotive engineer, Scott Jarvie was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1983. Having studied at Glasgow’s College of Building and Printing, Jarvie proceeded to study Product Design at Napier University’s School of Design and Media Arts, Edinburgh, graduating with First Class Honours and being awarded the University Medal.
Jarvie has exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Salone Satellite (Milan), Noise Festival where he won Zaha Hadid’s Curator’s Choice, The Art & Technology Gallery (New York), and The Lighthouse (Glasgow) and been featured on television programmes in the USA, Italy and in the UK. His work is featured in books, magazines and publications globally. Jarvie’s creative output is becoming synonymous with product design Scotland.
Jarvie has worked with Thomas Heatherwick, the internationally acclaimed designer, Elder and Cannon, the innovative award winning Glasgow Architects and Jacki Parry, the renowned Artist and Sculptor. Jarvie is endorsed by NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), was featured in the ‘Best of British Design’ list in the Observer Magazine, British Design Special March 2012, is a member of the British Council’s Creative Economy Pool of Experts in the field of Design and Architecture and is an Industry Adviser for product design for the Cultural Enterprise Office. Jarvie is also the Creative Director at luxury furniture brand – Delupo.