Science Island: Architecture

• Date added

5 February 2026

Science Island (Mokslo Sala) is Lithuania’s first Science and Innovation Promotion Centre, bringing together cultural and educational programmes on Nemunas Island in Kaunas. The centre features over 140 installations, a state-of-the-art planetarium, and four laboratories.

Vilnius-based multidisciplinary architecture and branding studio Praktika developed the full visual identity, including a custom typeface, wayfinding, signage, and web design.

Client

Science Island (Mokslo Sala)

Year

2025

Praktika

Designer

Praktika

Typographer

Jacky Martinovic

Web Designer & Developer

Artūras Nausėda

Typefaces in Use

MS Dot (custom)
Science Island: Reel
Concept

At the heart of the identity is a single universal graphic element: the dot. Appearing across natural and human-made systems, from distant stars and planetary forms to cellular structures, atomic particles, Morse code, Braille, and digital interfaces, the dot serves as a unifying symbol, connecting science, learning, and design.

Science Island: Wayfinding
Science Island: Uniform
Science Island: Vinyl graphics
Science Island: Counter
Science Island: Uniform
Science Island: Poster
Visual Identity

The dot principle shaped the creation of the custom Mokslo Sala Dot typeface, built entirely on a dot-grid structure. Its controllable weight range allows light forms to merge with the grid, while heavier forms connect organically. The typeface works alongside the Science Island symbol, both structured purely through dots and grid logic.

Dot-based visuals extend seamlessly to illustration and photography, creating a flexible, scalable identity. Over time, visitors become part of the system, as portraits integrate with the dot graphics, reinforcing Science Island’s mission to make science participatory, curious, and alive.

Science Island: Posters
Science Island: Type design
Science Island: Wayfinding
Science Island: Interior
Science Island: Type design
Science Island: Type design
Science Island: Counter
Science Island: Tags
Science Island: Iconography
Science Island: Vinyl graphics
Science Island: Wayfinding

Praktika

Praktika is a multidisciplinary architecture and branding studio defined by an open yet rigorously structured approach to creating purposeful work with enduring cultural relevance. The studio specialises in cultural, spatial, and future-minded brand identities and has collaborated since 2017, originally under the name Acid, with their first major project being Kaunas – European Capital of Culture 2022.

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