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.

Hamburger Bahnhof Site

Walton Ford Special Site

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.

First-Person Tetris

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":

The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia, and 50 more interesting articles. Interesting!
 

I hope this comes to a cinema (or DVD drive) near me soon: Visual Acoustics - The Modernism of Jules Shulman.

Grace, the latest project of Michael Hecken, is a new type of electric bike, combining the light-weight design of a mountain bike with the performance of a scooter. Top speed is 45km/h in the street-legal version, range between 30 and 50km, and it only takes one hour to fully charge.

Grace bikes are made to order, hand-crafted in Biesenthal, just outside Berlin, where Michael also hosts the annual ART Biesenthal.

Machinarium is a new point-and-click adventure by Amanita Design. Following in the footsteps of predecessors Samorost 1 and 2, your goal is to guide a character through a number of beautifully illustrated and animated scenes. Eurogamer has a more detailed review here.

The Red Bull Soapbox Racer wins the "Best in Class" Award at the 2009 Interactive Media Awards. Congrats, Less Rain!

Partner agency Less Rain wins gold today at the London International Awards in the Online Games category, with the Red Bull Soapbox Racer. Sapient, Tribal DDB and Dentsu were left in the dust.

The Soapbox Racer is currently also shortlisted for a British Interactive Media Award.