BBC Ops Scotland

Design Nations

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Promotional image for Cristiano Ronaldo: Impossible to Ignore featuring a close-up portrait and celebrating Ronaldo.

Design
Nations

We are a BBC design team, creating creative and technical graphics for broadcast, digital and live production working across Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

Working closely with BBC News, BBC Sport, BBC Studios and independent production partners, we create high-quality visual content that supports projects of every scale. Our designers collaborate with editorial, production and technical teams to develop graphics that are not only visually engaging but also robust, practical and ready for transmission.

With a deep understanding of production workflows and broadcast requirements, we integrate seamlessly into wider teams, helping projects stay on brief, on schedule and ready for delivery. We balance creative ambition with technical precision, ensuring every solution works effectively in real production environments.

We design for real production environments, balancing creative ambition with technical precision so graphics are practical, reliable and ready for transmission.

If you need a design partner who understands both creative and production demands, we can support your project.

Design Services

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Motion Graphics & Video

Purposeful motion graphics that support storytelling and editorial clarity.
BBC Sport Scotland graphic showing Celtic's starting lineup and substitutes before a football match.

Live Broadcast Graphics

Live, real-time graphics for studio shows, news coverage, sport, and Outside Broadcasts.
Promotional image for The War Between the Land and the Sea, showing two opposing characters facing each other.

VFX

Visual effects, augmented reality, and virtual production solutions to enhance storytelling and visual impact.
Two illuminated BBC National Orchestra of Wales concert posters displayed at a city bus stop at night.

Print & Promotional Design

Print and promotional assets such as posters, event materials, and marketing support.
Promotional graphic for Celebrity Scam Interceptors, featuring digital code and binary imagery.

Branding

We develop strong visual identities for programmes, series, and podcasts.
Colourful illustration of a woodland scene featuring trees, birds, insects, flowers and a fox.

Illustration

Bespoke illustration providing distinctive, hand-crafted visuals.
Musicians performing in an orchestra with violinists seated during a concert.

Photography

Photography for publicity, marketing, internal communications, and creative use.
BBC Sounds studio set with giant orange headphones with BBC Sounds logo as speakers. The studio walls are covered in branding for various bbc sounds programmes.

Set Design

Creating visual concepts, animated screen content, and integrated branding for studio and set design.
Three phones show mock ups of BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales adverts promoting various performances for BBC Radio 3.

Digital

Digital-first assets for social media, on-demand platforms, and online promotion.

Speak to
the team

Get in touch to discuss your production requirements. Our Scotland team can support you with the people, facilities and expertise needed to deliver your project.

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Matthew Russell

Creative Director, Editorial [email protected]
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Craig Caddis

Design Director, Nations [email protected]

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