Beam Global commissioned Contagious to transform a conference centre located in the old Teacher’s Whisky building in the centre of Glasgow. The brief was to showcase three scotch whisky brands over three floors of this historic building, now owned by The Institute of Electrical Engineers and used by over 150,000 of their members throughout the year. Using environmental graphics and portable touch screens, the brands were integrated into the environment to educate visitors and showcase the heritage, production process, tasting notes and a personal tour of the distillery by the distillery managers. Laphroaig, Ardmore and Teacher’s now have a new audience that can learn, understand and appreciate the unique character of each whisky.
Having designed the identity for The Kitchin, a Michelin Star restaurant in Leith, chef Tom Kitchin briefed Contagious to design and manage his website to showcase his restaurant and philosophy 'From Nature to Plate'. Tom’s passion for food is reflected through the site, where visitors can download menus and recipes, follow Tom’s travels around Scotland in search of the finest ingredients or simply order delicious chocolates made by his award-winning pastry chef Sebastian Kobelt. Tom is one of the most interesting Chefs in the UK at present and AA Gill recently wrote in The Sunday Times, "This food, so plainly Scots, not just in the use of local and national ingredients, is created with an intelligent craft and understated assurance, a quietly spoken, humanistic brilliance, here in the city of reason. My city. Nobody in the United Kingdom is cooking or eating better than this...."
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