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Fig. 01

The Bay Joiners

Quercus fabrilis

Joinery and fit-out. One quiet page, built to put Fergus on the phone with whoever needs him.

Established

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Fig. 02

A Boy Named Calm

Polymathia serena

A Glasgow artist working across music, fashion, writing and film. One site holding four practices at once.

Established

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Fig. 03

PROMPTMOB

Turba loquax

A crowd steers one conversation with an AI. Everyone offers the next question, the mob picks one, and the thread wanders off wherever it likes. No accounts, nothing kept.

Growing

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Fig. 04

Hounds of Love

Rosa canina

Molly's mobile grooming. The van comes to your door, so the dog never leaves home.

Growing

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Fig. 05

Scots Schoolroom

Salvia socratica

Socratic questioning instead of answer-vending, so the pupil does the thinking. Built on the Curriculum for Excellence.

Early

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Fig. 06

Coffee app — name?

Coffea sensoria

Home brewing and flavour profiling. Dial in a brew, log what you actually taste.

Seedling

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Fig. 07

Glide

Silphium viatoris

A GPS dashboard showing speed, heading and altitude that sends none of it anywhere — because there is no server to send it to.

Seedling

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Fig. 08

Croquis

Umbra vestita

Find clothes by shape rather than brand or keyword. Sketch roughly what you're after and see what actually exists.

Seedling

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Fig. 09

Wrapt

Convolvulus donarius

Works out how to wrap an awkwardly-shaped present, then shows you the folds as an animation you can scrub through.

Seedling

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Fig. 10

Drowned

Coffea submersa

An affogato stall. Cold vanilla, hot espresso poured over the top — which is what affogato means: drowned.

Cold frame

Still growing.

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