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It began around sunset, one grey October afternoon in 2013. I was walking through Holyrood Park on my way home from visiting my mum and I was thinking about the new job I would soon be starting. That job was to be the graphic designer on Yes Scotland's digital team. For nearly ten months I had been making my own social media graphics, supporting a Yes vote in the referendum on Scottish independence. In that time I had made infographics, message graphics and graphics that combined the two strands, with one thing that tied them together – the bare bones...

It's almost been two months since the independence referendum. Even though we did not get the result we worked so hard for, our movement is the one that looks like it was victorious. With the three main pro-Yes parties all in ascendence, as well as countless other organisations, our motivation and determination is resolute.  In light of this, I wanted to create a design that reflects the moment we are living in, in the same manner that my campaign designs did previously. In a conversation with my wife, artist Megan Chapman, she mentioned the motto of Leith and something clicked straight...