Now open – the spectacular new exhibition at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, home of the Lovell Space Telescope.

We worked closely with exhibition designers Casson Mann, the First Light Exhibition will bring to life the Jodrell Bank story.

Unearth inspirational stories of Jodrell Bank’s pioneering scientists in our new permanent exhibition and explore the depths of space in an immersive planetarium experience. Audiences are able to see fascinating archive materials brought together for the first time including audio, film, diaries, letters, plans and photographs, in innovative digitial displays and projections.

The exhibition fabric is made from the skin of the Lovell Telescope, bringing visitors into direct contact with the authentic metal dish which has ‘listened’ to the heavens and been touched by cosmic rays and ‘space dust.’

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.

Windermere Jetty Museum of Boats, Steam & Stories officially opened today following a £25m redevelopment. The new museum, located on the shore of Lake Windermere, houses an internationally significant collection of boats, steam launches and yachts.

We created all the AVs for the museum – from playful interactives to multi-screen films, exploring the lake’s history, iconic boats, world record attempts, and the craft of boat building.

We’re pleased to announce we’ve been commissioned by Studio Arc to create the new centre-piece film for the National Wallace Monument. The monument will be undergoing a major refurbishment in preparation for it’s 150th anniversary.

An ambitious, animated film will tell the story of Wallace, his rise to prominence, his most famous victory at the Battle of Stirling and his transformation into one of Scotland’s most treasured national heroes. We’re excited to be collaborating with concept artist and illustrator Richard Anderson (Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy, Prometheus), composer Giles Lamb (Valhalla Rising, Sucker Punch) and scriptwriter Richard Downes (History of Scotland, The Stuarts).

Photo: ©The National Wallace Monument

The V&A Dundee has finally opened and we can now share the work we’ve been doing for the last year on our Design Unwrapped installation. We’ve developed a large interactive table to present the stories of four distinctive Scottish Design objects.

The table features augmented animations to illustrate the production processes of Lynne MacLachan’s ‘Statement Phase’ necklace, whilst a touch interactive lets you assemble a Hunter Boot from the pattern cutter’s components.

The S’Up Spoon co-designed between Grant Douglas and 4C Design shows how physical prototypes became a spin-off company that Grant now runs and Neil Poulton’s Scopas Light for Artemide illustrates the link between creative inspiration and technical innovation.

The Scottish Gallery is now open and free to visit.

Our new exhibit at the historic Roman Baths features a large multi-user touchscreen by which visitors can explore all areas of the site in detail, seeing a variety of Roman characters (over one hundred of them) going about their various activities in real-time. Up to four users can select a character to reveal a cinematic view on a second screen, revealing their stories, actions and environment in more depth. The characters “living in” the table also feature in other parts of the museum, we wanted to maintain a sense of continuity whilst giving visitors the chance to engage with them in a new way.

To generate historically accurate animation, motion capture was used to record actor’s movements, which formed the basis of the final stylised animation. The exhibit gives a unique dual-perspective of the baths and its inhabitants, enhanced by 4k animation and photorealistic effects.

As part of Festival 2018 and Glasgow’s linking to Berlin for the European Championships, we invited Berlin-based audio/visual artist Tom Scholefield (aka Konx-on-Pax) to host a retrospective exhibition. The show featured record sleeve designs, graphic prints, posters, 3D visuals and video work from 2005 – 2018, showcasing Tom’s unique and immediately identifiable vibrant aesthetic. For the Preview weekend, Tom was also joined by Glasgow DJs Sofay and Ribeka for an exclusive live set in the ISO screening room before playing an exclusive live AV set in George Square with Mogwai’s Barry Burns and his band SUMS.

Tom has had his directorial work shown in different publications and festivals all over the world and is known for his psychedelic 3D live visuals for artists such as Lone and his own performances. In more recent years, he has worked with labels such as Warp Records, Brainfeeder, Hyperdub and LuckyMe and he continues to release his own electronic music on Planet Mu.

Sonica is the UK’s biggest sound and interactive art festival. We have extended our studio practices of pre-visualisation and high-end production of immersive installations to create an optical and auditory simulacra with regular collaborators Butler Bros, composer Giles Lamb and Numbercult (Craig Ritchie Allan) in what is our first personal project in 5 years. This new commission of site-specific work in our sub-basement will explore real time graphics, sensing and 3D audio in a journey through a series of volumetric tableaux, with reactive motionography and sound.

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Historic Dockyard Chatham’s major expansion by London studio Baynes and Mitchell Architects is one of six projects in the running for this year’s Stirling Prize and Dezeen have featured the nautical museum’s transformation.

‘The discovery in 1995 of the frame of an 18th-century warship called the Namur laid out beneath one of the buildings led to a lengthy excavation process. It was after this that Baynes and Mitchell Architects was brought on board.’

We were the lead AV and interactive designers for Chatham’s Command of the Oceans galleries.