Congratulations to our pals at the Sub Club where their Saturday night SubCulture has just won Best UK Club night at the DJ Mag Awards. Now the longest running residents night in the world Subculture has reached legendary status led by the indomitable residents Harri and Domenic.

We are proud to still be creating the Subculture artwork and helping our longest running client to continue to define the clubbing landscape.

Read more here.

Damien, Chris and Kim were leading workshops in Transmedia Storytelling and Experience Design this week at the Creative Media Academy at UWS. One of the country’s three centres of excellence, specialising in training from undergraduate to PhD for television, film, music and digital production.

Organised in partnership with the start-up incubator Honeycomb, this was the first of a series of training events for staff, students and professionals to develop their multiplatform practice. The next week long workshop is in early December where we will be working alongside filmmakers Alain de Helleux and Peter Snowden. Join Honeycomb for updates or follow ISO on Twitter.

ISO’s new Drinkaware cinema advert challenging sexual harassment is now rolling out nationwide. For ‘Boundaries’ we’ve created a dynamic typographic treatment using virtual projection and a full surround sound audio mix. Creative by Mike and Fletch at the Leith, voiceover by Radio One’s Mista Jam and soundscapes from Benji Merrison, mixed at Factory, London.

The ad is rolling out across cinemas in the UK and is now supported by YouTube and Spotify versions.

AV Magazine have just published a comprehensive technical feature on the new First World War Galleries at IWM. Featuring a number of the exhibits ISO created, the article explores the innovative methods that IWM have used to change the way that narrative-based museums create galleries.

Focussing on the balance between technology and content, the feature explores how interactive and animation elements came together to deliver an experience which reveals the poignant and varied realities of the war.

Since the Museum’s re-opening this Summer, there has been an overwhelming response from the public with visitors waiting in queues of up to three hours to experience the new gallery.

Read the full feature online with AV’s digital publication.

The Queen has opened the Science Museum’s new gallery with her first ever tweet.

“Information Age: Six Networks That Changed Our World” is the UK’s first permanent gallery dedicated to the history of information and communications technology. It spans 200 years of transformation, from electric telegraphy, broadcasting and telephony to satellite communications, the web and mobile voice and data networks.

ISO developed ‘The Cell’ one of six story boxes; specially commissioned installations from writers, technologists and digital designers. We collaborated with playwright Dawn King and Andrew Rice of Cambridge University to explore mobile connectivity. A series of character-led narratives provide snapshots of contemporary digital life. Visitors can connect to The Cell via their own phones to unlock enhanced content and add images, comments and take part in live polls; building up a live data record of the Gallery’s visitors.

BBC Radio 4 ‘Hidden Histories of the Information Age.’

The Guardian The Five Greatest Inventions

ISO Creative Director, Damien Smith will be at The Lighthouse, Glasgow on Friday 3 October to discuss the graphics and visual effects created for Glasgow’s XX Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony.

Damien will be one of five speakers at the event, which also includes Graphical House (designers of the Commonwealth Games souvenir range Scotland Can Make It!) and 4C Design (designers of the Queen’s baton).

To book your place, visit here.

AV Magazine has published an in-depth technical feature on Glasgow’s XX Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony. The article looks at what it took to create the visuals for the 100m wide LED screen at the event.

It also details the audio and lighting plans for the night, including the installation of 2,200 lighting fixtures without obscuring Europe’s largest ever LED screen.

Read the full feature online with AV’s digital publication.

ISO have been working closely with Jack Morton Worldwide creating over 2 hours of CGI and motion GFX animations for the Opening Ceremony of the XX Commonwealth Games 2014. All work will be shown on the largest LED screen in Europe, measuring nearly 100m wide. The Queen will officially open the Games in Glasgow and welcome over 4000 athletes from across the Commonwealth.

A variety of styles and techniques were used including time lapse photography, particle based animations and hand drawn illustration. The final content was developed alongside the choreography, lighting, pyrotechnics and live OB directors as the visual backdrop for the set piece performances and Athletes Parade.

You can watch the full opening ceremony on BBC iPlayer here.

The first episode of the new series of Channel 4’s short film strand, The Shooting Gallery kicks off with a voyage into the surreal with two short films entitled The Boy and Worm airing tonight (Monday 21 July) at midnight.

The strand will showcase six new episodes from a range of creative directorial talent.

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

For more information go to Channel 4’s Shooting Gallery site.

The Imperial War Museum, London will re-open to the public this Saturday having undergone a £40m transformation and has devoted a gallery to the First World War in this, its centenary year.

ISO have been lead AV and interactive designers for the Gallery and have produced 17 new media installations. Lead by Creative Director Mark Breslin we worked closely with the IWM’s curators and the exhibition designers at Casson Mann to present IWM’s extensive physical and digital collections of war at home and the Western Front to dramatic and poignant effect.

Our work includes large scale atmospheric film installations, interactive tables and strategy games. A whole host of techniques have been deployed including location filming, live action performance capture, motion sensing, development of bespoke software frameworks, 2D and 3D animation and visual effects.

Watch the time lapse transformation of the galleries on the BBC here and The Guardian’s review here.

“fascinating, and frequently heartbreaking exhibits”

The Times