Members of the public are being asked to cast their vote to choose Scotland's top design.

Some 13 entries are competing for The Lighthouse Design Impact Award top prize of £5000.

They range from the Queens Baton for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games to work by Aberdonian illustrator Gabrielle Reith.

Ian Callum, Jaguar's design director and chairman of the DIA judging panel, said: "You don't have to be a designer to have an eye for design and realise its potential impact.

"That's why we are giving you the chance to vote for a winner of the Public Award.

"The entries are of sound quality and it's been an interesting time reading through the submissions, from different areas of Scotland and from wide-ranging areas of work.

"Scotland has a wealth of talent, some of it undiscovered, and an award such as the Design Impact Award is intended to be open and inclusive."

The second Design Impact Awards, run by The Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Design and Architecture, was launched across Scotland in May with two prizes up for grabs - the public vote winner and the judge's winner.

The shortlisted entries are now in The Lighthouse, in Mitchell Lane, with the public prize winner relying on scooping the most votes.

Members of the public can cast their vote at the exhibition in The Lighthouse, on level five, outside the Doocot Cafe.

Final judging from the panel will take place on October 23 prior to the award event that evening.

The bi-annual awards were launched in 2012 to demonstrate the huge impact design and innovation makes to the way people live and work.

The winner of the judges' award will receive £5000 and the winner of the public vote will be presented with an award.

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