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.’

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 created a brand new animated identity for leading Scottish production company – and long time collaborators – Sigma Films. The brief asked for symbols and animation that would ‘decode the DNA of film’. We took inspiration from the electro mechanical rotor Enigma Cipher, spinning circular shutters, and early pre-film animation techniques, resulting in an animated ‘film cipher’.

We got to see it on the big screen at the Edinburgh International Film Festival premiere of Sigma’s latest release, Outlaw King, which is now available to stream on Netflix.

1906 saw the opening of an astonishing piece of architecture for its time. Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed a groundbreaking building and interiors for Mrs Cranston’s Tea Room empire in Glasgow. Over a hundred years later we have created a 4k centrepiece film, Mackintosh and the Making of the Willow for the new visitor centre.

Supplied with Mackintosh’s original plans and photographs of the site, we created a CGI model, showing the building and interiors he and his wife Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh designed. The rooms have been recreated showing the distinctive character and design he is famous for. It’s the finale of the centre before visitors step next door to the faithfully re-created original Willow Tea Room.

Now open to the public at 217 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.

We were commissioned by BBC Scotland to produce the title sequence and 77 individual motion graphics for a new three-part series, Scotland From the Sky. The series charts a century of aerial photography and witnesses the changes in rural and urban landscapes. Author and presenter James Crawford guides us through a mix of aviation adventure and historical detective work from long-lost landmarks as he explores Scotland from the air.

We used a variety of techniques from re-animating archive stills with 2.5D displacement, augmenting aerial footage with CGI reconstruction and animating maps as historical archive merged into modern views of Scotland.

Leading the way for the development of prosthetic limbs, Erskine Hospital has cared for more than 85,000 ex-service personnel since its opening in 1916. To commemorate its 100 year anniversary, the BBC has created a documentary to tell Erskine’s story through archive footage of staff and patients. ISO were tasked with treating the sequences to give a more ‘filmic’ appearance.

We created the title card, 13 graphic sequences and 25 rostrums using 3D depth maps, displacement filters and chromatic aberration.

See the one-hour documentary, Beyond The Battlefield: 100 Years Of Erskine on Thursday 3 November at 21.00, BBC Two Scotland.

Ten galleries showcasing some of Scotland’s most acclaimed historical collections is now open to the public at The National Museum of Scotland, brought to life with a little help from ISO.

The team have created ten films and five interactives offering visitors’ a deeper experience across Arts & Design and Science & Technology exhibits.

Highlights include the Collection Wall — a 30ft waterfall interactive database of the science and tech archive, Style Me fashion interactive featuring garments on display in the museum, a Formula One racing simulator.

It’s well worth a visit!

Big night planned next month for the Royal Television Society Awards Scotland and in a repeat of last year we’ve picked up 3 nominations across Graphics and Titling and also the Animation categories. I Survived a Zombie Apocalypse goes up against The History of Scottish Art in Graphics whilst the Secret Life of Midges flies the flag for Animation.

Damien was also chair of the Digital Innovation Jury this year so congratulations to the BBC’s The Social and T in the Park online teams and STV’s News Online for their nominations in that category.

Here is a picture of Blair teasing a Zombie….

Been busy down on the South Coast with a fast turnaround project working on our first planetarium.

The Bristol Data Dome is the UK’s first 4K stereovision full dome 100 seater presentation theatre. We’ve been commissioned by the UK Government organisation Digital Catapult to develop new visual approaches for presenting data stories within this type of environment.

Working with our friends at Urban Tide and the guys at NSC Creative at the National Space Centre, we had 6 weeks to process nearly 300 data sets and develop a series of linear video and runtime presentations for the Dome’s launch to showcase its potential to developers, education and industry.

The first series of demos has now gone live and we’ll be working with the team at Bristol to further develop and promote the Dome’s data potential over the next year.