Congratulations to EPIC – Dublin’s museum of Irish Emigration – on winning Europe’s Leading Tourist Attraction at the World Travel Awards 2019. We created 11 bespoke interactive and immersive exhibits across twenty galleries which tell the story of 10 million Irish people who travelled abroad to start a new life, the contributions they have made to science, literature, music, politics, and much more.

ISO will be working with PhD student Ronnie Campbell, 1 of the 13 PhD students funded by the National Productivity Investment Fund, to facilitate the development of tools and techniques, models and recommendations for a variety of situations allowing ISO Design to help guide clients in their conception and delivery of media exhibits so that these match user needs and behaviours.

Ronnie’s specialization is audio and has recently been utilizing the upgraded ambisonic sound booth in the Glasgow School of Art’s Sim Vis Department which is able to envelop listeners in an ambisonic sound sphere made up of 16 speakers, creating 3D spatialized sound.

Congratulations to frequent ISO collaborator and illustrator Will Anderson on scooping a BAFTA nomination for his animated short film Have Heart. The film is about an animated gif, trapped in a loop on the internet and what it feels like to be alive online through his character.

The film evolved during the daily commute between Edinburgh and ISO’s studio in Glasgow.

This is Will’s second BAFTA nomination having won his first in 2013 for The Making of Longbird.

Keeping our fingers crossed for a win!

Watch the film on Vimeo.

After winning the RIBA South East Regional and National Award, Command of the Oceans at The Historic Dockyard Chatham has been shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling prize building of the year. It joins a diverse list of finalists, including the British Museum extension, Hastings Pier, City of Glasgow College, Juergen Teller’s photography studio and Barretts Grove.

Congratulations to architecture firm Baynes and Mitchell and the team whose designs have transformed the 18th-century dockyard in Chatham, Kent. The project tells the story of the most complete dockyard of the age of sail to be fully told for the first time and centres around the Namur, ‘the ship beneath the floor’ uncovered by chance in 1995.

It was a real pleasure to have been a part of the story with our interpretation of Chatham’s great history through multiple AV installations and interactives.

Congratulations to the supremely talented Brian McGinlay and Mark Bell at McGinlay Bell, winners of The DRUM’s Scottish Design Award for Best Commercial Project for our new studio in Glasgow’s Merchant City.

McGinlay Bell transformed the dilapidated building (previously used as a hairdressers, a tobacco merchant and one of Glasgow’s earliest print shops) by exposing the masonry shell and re-modelling the internal floor space into a new multi-layered arrangement with fit for purpose workstations, meeting rooms, a flexible screening space, an event and exhibition space. The three story Victorian unit now has a spacious open plan studio for our designers and developers.

The annual Museums + Heritage Awards recognises ground-breaking exhibitions and we’re delighted they’ve awarded the National Museum of Scotland the Permanent Exhibition accolade for their ten new state-of-the-galleries.

We created ten films and five interactives for the award-winning galleries dedicated to art, design, fashion, science and technology, which opened in July 2016.

Three is indeed our lucky number as for the third year in a row, we’ve been shortlisted for the RTS Scotland Awards.

We are thrilled to have been nominated for Mentorn’s New Town & BBC Scotland’s Beyond the Battlefield: 100 years of Erskine in the Graphics and Titling category. As well as our work for Future Cities Catapult’s UK Data Dome which is in the running for the Best Innovation award.

We hope to add to our growing collection of RTS Awards (5 so far) at the big event next month. See the full list of nominees here.

This year’s VisitEngland Awards for Excellence shortlist include two museums we’ve worked on. The Crystal is a finalist for the Business Tourism Provider of the Year Award and The Roman Baths & Pump Room is a contender for Large Visitor Attraction of the Year. Both museums are well-deserving of the awards and you can see the work we created for them on our projects page.

The full list of nominees can be seen online here.

A warm welcome to our newest team member, Austrian graphic designer Herwig Scherabon. A Glasgow School of Art Alumnus, Scherabon recently had two data visualisations that won the Kantar Information is Beautiful 2016 student award.

With a background in urban planning and architecture, Herwig brings a unique perspective to the studio and we look forward to working with him.

Congratulations to our team member, Vincent Wolf whose work will be showcased in Aesthetica Magazine’s Art Prize Anthology of 100 leading contemporary artists from around the world!

Created in collaboration with Saunt & Sinner, Vincent Wolf’s FLUX collection explores the complex and interconnected relationship between light (the Saunt) and dark (the Sinner).

Bringing fashion and technology together, Saunt and Sinner x Vincent Wolf explored the latest advances in virtual reality for FLUX. Each print design has been created as an immersive world experience that can be entered using the latest VR viewer technology.