Science Communication Lab

Science Communication Lab is a design studio in Kiel specialising in visual communication for research. It was founded by the designers Tom Duscher and Konrad Rappaport — Duscher also teaches interactive media at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design — and mixes information design, animation and software development with science journalism, working for universities, research clusters and museums.

Projects translate hard subjects into formats people can enter: an interactive web feature and animation on cosmic neutrinos from the Milky Way, the Meet the Metaorganism learning app for evolutionary biology, a digital walk through the Viking Danevirke wall and Hedeby, a plasma accelerator visualisation for Kaldera, and an image film for the Single Cell Center Würzburg. The studio holds a German Design Award, among other prizes.