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Ian Rankin investigates...
Job type: Animated reconstructions and content graphics
Client: BBC Four
Year: 2007

Crime writer Ian Rankin explores the dark underbelly of Edinburgh and how it's tales of drugs, murder and sexual misconduct have shaped his writing.

Working with the team that produced the Conan Doyle series they gave us the leeway to push the dramatic reconstructions further with more elaborate shoots and using filmed effects for fire, smoke and water. We even had a rat wrangler on location. Original plans of the dissection theatres used by the real life subject of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde were brought to life alongside well thumbed autopsy manuals.

Retrospective of the legendary Scottish architectural practice best known for their uncompromising application of Modernism. The exhibition is the most comprehensive overview of their work and the largest show ever commissioned by The Lighthouse.

Working with Collective Architecture and artist Toby Paterson we produced the exhibition identity, display graphics, films, animations and marketing materials. We also designed the definitive weighty coffee table book of the practice's work.

Production of all the interactives, animation and film installations for the new London Transport Museum, Covent Garden. The Museum re-opened following a 22 Million pound refit. We completed 14 projects including animated films, live action reconstructions, an immersive design gallery, live data displays and microsites.

Projects included "Design for Travel", a projected gallery that presents the design history of London Underground, "World City Walks" which contrasts large scale generative graphics with UGC films we commissioned across 4 continents and "Connections" , a dramatic 30 ft high installation that presents information graphics, user journeys and live data from Transport for Londons CCTV camera and traffic monitoring software.

New comedy series from Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong from Peep Show. Featuring comedy royalty in the form of Roger Lloyd Pack (Trigger from Only Fools and Horses), Clive Swift (Keeping up Appearances) and Katherine Parkinson (Jen from the IT Dept).

It follows a couple of old guys behaving badly, lusting after the fragrant Jane Asher. All the sets and text were rough hand made constructions shot under rostrum with the actors facing the indignity of being chased around a studio with a giant green finger. Music by the incomparable Ivor Cutler.

Our pals at leading film and TV sound studio Savalas came in to talk graphic identities for a re-branding of their company. We proposed working together on a series of motion identities, audio-generated graphics that would both become their new logotype and visualise their process and creative activity.

We developed code that would react to a series sound signatures Savalas created. These became the foundation of all their new print and promotional materials, web and showreel interfaces. The main identity is now used as the main demo piece for their their dolby theatre with a range of 2 second versions used for cueing in clips and balancing audio.

Part of a series of visuallisation and modelling pieces we have created with artist Simon Simon we took electron microscopy scans he had captured from tiny slivers of emulsion scratched from a photographic negative. From these we created a virtual 3D model of the fragment that was then made physical via stereolithography / 3D printing.

Once signed off the data files in this case were used to create the foam structure of this sculpture, then sealed and treated by Simon and his assistants. The final object was about 2.5m x 6m and was exhibited at the old Bath House in Parnie Street as part of Glasgow International.

Design consultants for the Visual Interface Design of the BBC iPlayer. The iPlayer is the web-based media player which allows users to catch up and download the previous 7 days broadcasts of BBC television and radio. ISO was commissioned to create the graphic design and user experience of the iPlayer and develop a graphic language for a TV experience on the web.

The design proposals we developed have been integrated into the look and feel of the iPlayer which is presently available as a beta release - with 17 million downloads in the first three weeks of launch. The iPlayer was nominated for a BAFTA for Interactive Innovation earlier this year and has seen an astonishing 270 Million downloads or streams in its first year!

Created all AV and interactives for the new Mercedes Benz UK Brand Experience Centre at Brooklands in Surrey. Projects include BUILD, a 3D stereovision film that mixes live action and CGI to show how a car being built from its point of view. The film is shown in a specially built cinema with moving seats, light and heating effects for maximum disorientation.

SOLVE is a suite of learning interactives that show how Mercedes R&D has changed the shape of motoring. Younger visitors learn about complex technological subjects through gameplay. A 1908 Simplex is revealed behind electrically triggered glass screens as problems are solved and touchscreen games reveal next generation systems for Telematics and Computer Assisted Driving.

Sixth series of BBC1's exploration of British comedy's family tree. Titles and all graphic links for over 40 programmes and counting. Series 7 in the pipeline.

Concept, direction and post-production of the Channel identity, idents and all screen graphics packages for E4's dedicated music channel.

The green screen film footage of the glamorous E4 Music technicians was comped into specially built 3D environments. Graphics included effects animation, template systems and a specially created font. RTS nomination.