 Alongside the author Fionn MacColla, and local businessman such as Allan Ogilvie and Andrew Dalgetty, Baird participated in a lively branch of the newly founded National Party of Scotland in the town, until the early 1930s, and designed one of the earliest extant logos for the NPS, which was used locally in Angus.Baird's method of working was slow, painstaking and based on thorough and exhaustive research of the subject at hand.He found it difficult to draw or paint something unless he had a profound knowledge of the subject.