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Read about what we do, how we do it, our design processes, who we are, what we have been doing and work in progress.

Last week we invited Claudio Pedica to come to our office for a chat about artificial intelligence, social sciences and digital media. Claudio is a research scientist and software designer at the Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines.

Oldest land-mammals in Europe

One of the greatest side-effects to working on an exhibition is that you get to learn so much in the process. Now our learning is on reindeer. Did you know that is the oldest land-mammal in Europe and it survived all the mammoths, wool rhinos, sabre-toothed-tigers and other prehistoric animals?

Art foetuses on the move

Students from the visual communication programme at the Iceland Academy of the Arts visited Gagarin to get an insight into our interactive adventures.

Tough cookies!

Breheimsenteret is talking on its form again after a fire in 2011. Peder Kjærvik and his team decided to rebuild this magnificent structure.

Nils Wiberg has bought a Safari hat and gone to Africa

Nils will be in Tanzania participating as an interactive installation artist in two arts festivals, the Bagamoyo Arts and Culture Festival and the Visa2dance festival.

Gagarin Newsletter

Since we are constantly preaching the importance of „tangibility“ in our solutions, we decided to send our latest newsletter out in a classic paper form!* It should reach you within a couple of days.

Marcos Zotes

Last week we invited Marcos Zotes to come to our office for a casual "chit chat" about projection mapping and other interactive thoughts. Marcus is an architect and artist from Madrid, currently living and working in Reykjavik.

Behind the scenes: The Hydropower Station

So we got this very exciting project to educate visitors on the workings of Hydropower Stations. How would we do it? Obviously our motion artists would produce some great looking charts and animations to clearly demonstrate the math and magic involved in producing electricity from water. Well – that is what we the tech guys thought until in one ridiculous brainstorm session.

Creative runners!

Four of our employes have finished a half marathon running (21 km) this year. Kristin influenced us unexpectedly by running a half marathon in Berlin last April and then Geir, Heimir and Maggi took on the same challenge last weekend.

“Six Thinking Pencils” featured in NICE Magazine

Our Six Thinking Pencils are featured in the Johannesburg-based Magazine. They call this "The Cities Issue", where they showcase creative work from established or emergent design/art capitals of the world.