The new English Heritage Stonehenge exhibition and visitor centre has just opened its doors.

ISO created a suite of films for a large multi-screen installation explaining the popular theories that surround the meaning and use of Stonehenge – from 17th century ideas to its place in popular culture today. These visually rich films were created from a mix of filmed interviews and animation combined with archive material and specially shot footage.

A second suite of films which runs through the entire centre, focusses on the life and crafts of neolithic people – specially shot re-enactments and commissioned illustrations are combined to bring the physical artefacts to life, illustrating how they were created and their place in daily life.

Image credit James O. Davies/English Heritage.

Channel 4’s second screen app, 4Now offers viewers real-time interaction for voting, games and quizzes.

The “always on” app, the first to be launched by a free-to-air broadcaster in the UK, is intended to exploit the “second screen” phenomenon – a viewers’ inclination to be on their devices (iPads, mobiles, etc) whilst also watching their favourite shows.

ISO worked on the graphics for the 4Now app. Download it here now.

Directed by Nick Higgins, We Are Northern Lights was Scotland’s first ever crowd-sourced documentary and received over 1500 submissions with over 300 hours of video footage.

ISO created the visual identity, film titles, website and digital strategy for the project. We built a platform incorporating YouTube’s latest citizen journalism features. Videos were tagged, encoded and organised, ready for the editing process. The site was also utilised as a social community to showcase the project.

The full We Are Northern Lights feature documentary is now available on DVD (PAL) for UK audiences. You can also watch the film online here.

Channel 4’s short film strand The Shooting Gallery is returning for a four week run starting tonight at midnight with an episode entitled Crossing Over.

The strand will showcase nine brand new films from some of the UK’s best new film-making talent, including a variety of work from multiple genres ranging from BAFTA winning shorts like Will Anderson’s The Making of Longbird and Charlotte Carden’s The Taxidermist, to campaigning micro-documentaries depicting real life stories of miscarriages of justice told by survivors of Death Row, by Will Francome and Mark Pizzey.

Check out the show to see the titles and in-programme graphic links created by us.

ISO were showcased this month with a 5-page spread in the published version of Japanese Digital Design magazine, SHIFT.

Projects featured include: The Gallery of Lost Art website; Film 4 indents; Titanic Belfast interactives; BBC iPlayer; Shooting Gallery TV titles/graphics; Oculus video installation at St Paul’s Cathedral and Savalas motion and sound identity.

Bear Grylls’ new series ‘Escape from Hell’ broadcasts from tonight as he relieves the experiences of survivors who’ve been trapped in some of the worlds most dangerous locations.

We’ve been working with the good people at Betty TV on designing motion-tracked data, infographics, animations, maps and titles; over 70 graphics sequences completed.

Each episode drops Bear into a different extreme environment – Jungle, Snow, Mountains, Canyons and Desert, culminating in his ‘Ultimate Survival School’.

6-parts for Sky Discovery / Betty TV. Screening 9pm Mondays from 7 October.

The new album artwork we have designed for Justin Currie, former frontman of Del Amitri, is now out. The third in the series of covers we have done for Justin’s solo albums this took us from the urban environs of Glasgow’s SWG3 studios to the great Scottish outdoors, lugging a photographic backdrop of the American desert. Designed in homage to the transatlantic sessions he did between the Western Isles and Austin, Texas the backdrop lives on supporting Justin on his present UK tour. Photography by the very talented Armando Ferrari.

Get a copy of Lower Reaches here and check out Justin’s scandalous personal site here.

The Lindisfarne Gospels, an exhibition about the tale of saint Cuthbert and a chance to see some of Britain’s most significant medieval manuscripts alongside Anglo-Saxon treasures opened in Durham yesterday.

ISO created 3 AV installations for the exhibition based around Early Christianity in Britain and the Lindisfarne Gospels. Bespoke illustrations created with scraper board technique were used in two AVs and hi res scans of the Gospels in the last to help to create an immersive experience and engulf the visitor into the book.

The exhibition is on until 30 September 2013. Find out more here.

The new site we’ve lovingly crafted for our old friends at the Sub Club is now live and kicking.

The Subbie is regularly voted as one of the UK’s top clubs and is home to the world’s longest running house night Subculture, which we have been creative directors of since launch.

The site’s been designed to reflect the club’s party nights but also the wider ‘Sub World View’ of club regulars with postings on music, fashion, events and general randomness gathered from the club’s social channels.

Visit the site here.

Lost Art won Design Week Award for interactive design last night.

The judges said: ‘A beautifully crafted, immersive experience that evokes the feelings of a real gallery experience.’

Find out more about the award, winners and shortlisted projects on Design Week’s website.