Shelter Scotland's Byres Road charity shop window display is getting a makeover by young designers.

Design students from the Glasgow School of Art have designed the window as part of a unique creative partnership to mark the housing and homelessness charity's 50th anniversary.

The art installation, designed by 3rd year communication design students Chioma Ince and Georgia Dixon, depicts a stairway of bricks emerging from a suitcase.

The two young designers say it represents the progression from being homeless and living in temporary housing into finding a permanent home.

"Bricks can easily be understood as a metaphor for home and security," said 21-year-old Ms Ince and 21-year old Ms Dixon.

"Our idea was to symbolise the progression from temporary housing, represented by a suitcase, to permanent homes, represented by the escalating bricks.

"The dynamic and theatrical nature of the display provides an eye-catching narrative and should intrigue the viewer offering Shelter Scotland an opportunity to start a conversation with potentially new supporters and volunteers."

The installation, which will run for one week only, is part of a series of activities undertaken to help Shelter Scotland mark its anniversary.

GSA students have already unveiled the charity's 50th anniversary logo and are also running a photography project which will result in a major exhibition later in the year.

Another two students have designed the window display of the Nicholson Street shop in Edinburgh, and have also designed a provocative poster which will be hung in the rest of the charity's 37 shops across Scotland.