Following the nominations at the Webbys, FITC and The One Show, the Red Bull Soapbox Racer is now also nominated at the Clios 2010 in the category Beverages / Non-Alcoholic. We are pitted against the Coca Cola Happiness Machine by Definition 6, a nice example of a viral video done right:
Our friend Hawken just released his first iPhone app, Facemakr, and apparently I'm in it. So if you ever wanted to create a portrait based on my likeness, now you can!
Following the recent nominations we are now competing for a Webby as well, in the coveted category Interactive Advertising / Game or Application. And again, we need you! Please vote for the Red Bull Soapbox Racer at the People's Voice Award for a chance to win a Good Deed of the Day-Medal.
Update: Soapbox Racer wins the People's Voice Award. Thank you, people!
The Red Bull Soapbox Racer has been officially nominated at The One Show, and today also at Flash in the Can, in the categories 3D Flash and Flash Game.
Soapbox predecessor Flight Lab won at both events in 2008: bronze at The One Show, and winner of the 3D category and a Best in Show award at FITC.
Update: You can now vote for the Red Bull Soapbox Racer at the FITC Peoples Choice Award - Look for the box that says Flash Game or 3D Flash.
Update 2: We won! Red Bull Soapbox Racer came first in the category 3D Flash. Many thanks to all of you at FITC!
This film is a portrait of a German artist who voluntarily isolated himself from the public for ten years to create more than 1200 paintings. When Oubey finally began considering the possibility of a new exhibition, he was killed in a traffic accident in August, 2004, at the age of 46.
The project.
The project MINDKISS posthumously realises his plan. Dagmar Woyde-Köhler, initiator and head of the Mindkiss project, commissioned Stefan Sagmeister / New York to design a book about the project and as:if Film Matters and Less Rain / Berlin to create an experimental cinematic portrait of Oubey.
Our aim was to explore not only the complexity of Oubey’s world, but also the material potential of his work and, not least of all, himself in the artistic process. In a first stage we selected private super 8 and video clips from Oubey’s legacy as well as HD material we shot in his studio to edit an 11 min long cut of the final version.
For the final piece up to 100,000 particles are animated simultaneously in 3D, each one corresponding to a pixel of the movie. They align, dissolve, mimic the motion within the movie itself and react to the user. All of this is precisely timed to fit the story arc and the music. Everything happens in real-time, nothing is prerendered. The software is running in Adobe Flash.
Oubey’s interactive portrait is accompanied by a mesmerizing soundscape of french composer Kangding Ray.
The movie has a running time of 11 min and can be downloaded only until April, 4th at http://www.oubey.com/en/loft/welcome
(Links to PC and MAC versions are on top of the page, the link under the image is just a short trailer.)
The Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin shows 100 examples of contemporary Japanese product design - modern interpretations of traditional items. Many are crafted from equally traditional materials, using techniques perfected over centuries, like these lacquer ware bowls.
Katachi
Die leise Form aus Japan
03.03.2010 – 02.05.2010
Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
Julius Wiedemann and Rob Ford from the FWA teamed up for TASCHEN Verlag to present you with "sixty success stories from clients' briefings to final projects" - and two of them are ours. Both our Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab and Vandalsquad feature as examples for a successful investment online.
You can flip through the entire book here, or read more at the TASCHEN website. The Internet Case Study Book is out in April 2010.
The title says it all. The Red Bull Soapbox Racer is nominated at The One Show. 36 days to go...
Bestiarium - Fantastic exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, until 24th of May. It seems that because "it's with animals" a lot of people bring their kids along. And then face difficult questions when standing in front of images like the above one.
Fantastic pictures by Mr. Koxvold, on Flickr. Reminds me of some of our Less Rain stationary, after being in the sun for too long.
Looking for some iPhone fodder? App.itize.us is a "painstakingly curated presentation of the best produced and designed iPhone applications". And Gizmodo has a list of the 53 best iPhone games of 2009. Nice to see that "Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor" tops the list as game of the year.
Interface from id's classic DOOM first-person-shooter appears on billboards in Berlin. By street artists Mr. Talion, Epoxy, Baveux and Kone. [Flickr]
Martin Andersen created this stop motion animation for the New Zealand Book Council's promotion to "read more":
Carsten Schneider studied Communication Design at Merz Academy in Germany, and holds an MA in Interactive Media Design from the London College of Printing.
The last 12 years he spent in London and Tokyo, moving through the ranks of interactive design agency Less Rain to become one of their creative directors. He has been working on projects for the BBC, the Barbican, Haunch of Venison, Red Bull, NEC, Honda and Volkswagen.
Together with his Japanese family he is now re-discovering Berlin, hunting down rare specialities such as natto, raw jelly fish or chicken knuckles. Although highly unlikely he is still hoping his family will succumb eventually to the temptations of Döner and Curry-Wurst instead.
Carsten Schneider
Designer, Director
Meyer, Miller, Smith.
Linienstrasse 154a
10115 Berlin
Germany
Work +49 (0)30 2809 5020
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Meyer, Miller, Smith
Linienstrasse 154a
10115 Berlin
Germany
Work +49 (0)30 2809 5020
Fax+49 (0)30 2809 5023
