New trailers featuring ISO graphics released for More 4’s Remembrance Sunday special, featuring Sean Bean and Gemma Arterton reading poems by Wilfred Owen, and Sophie Okonedo reading The Soldier by Rupert Brookes.

Nice film from the Guardian here showing the full versions of the poems.

Imagine special “Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective” featuring ISO animated reconstructions. “Britain’s most successful crime writer, Ian Rankin, invites imagine… to get up close and personal and follow him as he writes his next novel.” Produced by our friends at Finestripe.

TX Tue 6 Nov 10:35pm BBC One.

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Lost Art has been nominated for the DocLab Award for Digital Documentary Storytelling at this years International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam. IDFA is the worlds largest documentary film festival and it celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.

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Our titles for A History of Scotland are featured in a major international US exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production, produced by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and the Walker Art Centre; a review of the last decade of graphic design, encompassing work from across the globe. The traveling show has just opened at its third American venue, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles after showing in New York and Minneapolis.

The Film and TV Titles section have been curated by Art of the Title. A megamix the guys put together from the show, featuring MK12, Prologue, Imaginary Forces, Yu+Co, Digital Kitchen, Johnny Kelly and Daniel Kleinman can be viewed here.

The Crystal, Siemens’ new Centre for Urban Sustainability has just opened in London’s Dockland. Designed by Stirling Award Winners Wilkinson Eyre it is the highest rated green building in Europe. Described as a “Museum of the Future” we will be posting a review of the 30+ film and interactive installations we’ve created for the project  soon –  meanwhile you can find out more here.

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Random Acts has been commissioned for a second year by Channel 4. We are undertaking a refresh of the site design and switching the film feeds from 4OD to the Brightcove player to allow for high quality HD clips to be viewed. A new batch of film producers and artists will be showcased over the coming 12 months, helping us to build an archive of almost 500 shorts of the most exciting new film talent.

New ‘social icons’ using the commemorative logo we recently did for the Subbie.

As part of the Sub Club’s 25 Year Celebrations a batch of new podcasts is being released. The first three are now available via iTunes, the Club Site and Soundcloud. They feature “25 Years is a f***ing long time” by The Revenge and two new mixes where Subculture’s Harri and Domenic go head to head with Jonnie and Keith from Optimo. Regular monthly releases are being pencilled for later this year so friend, follow, check back regularly.

iTunes: Sub Club podcasts
Soundcloud mixes 

Nick Higgins and our pals at Northern Lights have just finished the open submission stage for their mass participatory feature documentary “We are Northern Lights”. The last three months has seen over 1500 submissions and 200 hours of video footage uploaded via the YouTube API-enabled site we developed with them. Now the guys are disappearing into a dark room with film editor Colin Monie (Neds, Magdalene Sisters, Hallam Foe) to pull together the final film with the premiere pencilled for the end of 2012 before it hits the road in an interactive screening format. More to follow…

We’ve just launched The Gallery of Lost Art, a year long, online exhibition created with the Tate and Channel 4. The exhibition tells the story of significant artworks of the last 100 years have that have been lost. Follow the site for weekly updates of new works and the opportunity to chat to the curators. Be quick though – we are going to destroy the site after 12 months.

Bet 365 is now launching in Brazil and Mexico so we are just back from re-creating our original Ray Winstone ads with Uruguayan football superstar Sebastián Abreu in Rio. “El Loco” stepped manfully in the role of a Diamond Geezer, matching Ray’s performance shot-by-shot and has helped us deliver Spanish and Portuguese versions of the commercials. He even managed to put a brave face on the 7am studio call after losing the Copa do Brazil the evening before – a true pro!