STUDENTS from Glasgow School of Art used shop windows as a canvas to mark the 50th anniversary of housing and homelessness charity Shelter.
Chioma Ince and Georgia Dixon placed their brick installation in the window of the organisation’s Byres Road shop in the west end of the city.
The communication design students were among the young creatives selected to mark half-a-century of the organisation’s work, with further art displayed in Edinburgh.
Other students produced a logo for use by Shelter Scotland.
The projects are part of a year-long series of events, although the charity says it is “still fighting” and the milestone is not a cause for celebration.
Professor Toms Inns, director of the Glasgow School of Art: “Working on this project has been an important opportunity for our students offering the chance to learn more about how to apply their creativity to a live brief.
“We hope that their thought-provoking designs for Shelter Scotland’s shop windows will help to raise awareness of continuing issues around bad housing and homelessness, and be a call to action for people to support the charity’s important work in its 50th anniversary year.”
Graeme Brown, director of Shelter Scotland, said: “This design is a thought-provoking representation of bad housing and homelessness and I congratulate the young designers on their concept and realisation.
“I encourage people in Glasgow and visitors to the city to come along and view this excellent work. I thank the students and the GSA for their support in marking our 50th year.”
Brown added: “This is our 50th year – but we’re not celebrating – we shouldn’t even exist. We’re still fighting until there’s a home for everyone in Scotland.”
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