If you have been in the industry for less than 5 years, don’t miss Digital Archaeology, hosting a dozen of the most influential sites of the last 15 years and curated by Jim Boulton. Amongst them, the original Antirom website - an paradigm shift for anyone getting into interactive media in the mid-nineties, the groundbreaking early work of Daniel Brown, the original K10K portal and the first online portfolio of less rain, called Walter the Fish.

If you use Safari, you might still be able to view Walter the Fish in the form it existed in 1999, containing all of our experimental / non commercial work between 1998 - 1999. It has been an amazing 12 years since then; respect to Gordon Davies, our tutor in Middlessex University’s Design of Interactive Media MA course - where it all started for some of us.

Here is a list of the Less Rain collective as it was at the time the site was frozen in history:

Lars Eberle - design
Vassilios Alexiou - shockwave programming / sound
Gunnar Bauer - design
Rose Merrill - copy
Sonja Mueller - photography
Simon Sadler - spare brain
Thomas Meyer - programming
Carsten Schneider - design
Craig Hutchins (RIP) - photography
Achim Hagemann - sound
Luis Martinez - programming

We just found out we are finalists in the entertainment category, down to the last three out of 41 submissions from all over the world. The final winner will be chosen by online public voting, one vote per email address, between October 11th 2010 and 12:00 noon on Oct 26th, 2010. Fingers crossed!

Art-spire has made a list that although not exhaustive, it does cover the subject very well and also of serves as a historic reference. Somewhere in there you will also find Less Rain

In a quest to inspire young children to explore their creativity and imagination, Made in Me stumbled upon Less Rain and hired us as the production partners for the Land of Me - a suite of six creative software activities for children aged 2 and up to play with grown-ups.

Made in Me provided amazing words, illustration, animation and sound, Less Rain provided design, interactivity and technical direction to bundle everything together in a very sophisticated Adobe Air app!

Unfortunately its not for free, but you can download a functioning demo version here as well as watch some very informative videos here.

Visit Made in Me Website

This year Less Rain is the only German agency to win a coveted Webby Award, aka "The Internet Oscar". Nominated from almost 10.000 entries, our Red Bull Soapbox Racer won the People's Voice Award in the Game or Application category. Thanks again to everyone who voted!

Andreas Lutz wins the only other Webby going to Germany, in the Student category for his portfolio "Because clicking is so 90s!". Congratulations!

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:

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!

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!

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.

Update 2: We won! Red Bull Soapbox Racer came first in the category 3D Flash. Many thanks to all of you at FITC!

Less Rain is looking for a versatile Flash developer for full-time employment in our Berlin office with a solid background in object oriented web development and in-depth experience in AS3. We are seeking a motivated and confident problem solver with an eye for interaction design and a passion for web technologies.

You will be working in an international team of experienced developers in Berlin. Your role involves working closely with our front-end designers and the developer team to implement projects ranging from mini-sites to large scale consumer & corporate websites. You will be working on projects such as:

• http://www.redbullsoapboxracer.com/
• http://www.alfaromeogiulietta.co.uk/
• http://www.passage-experience.com/
• http://www.redbullflightlab.com/

Requirements

• 3+ years experience in Flash development and solid Actionscript 3 skills
• A feel for good interaction design and usability
• Experience in working with frameworks such as PureMVC or Flex
• Experience with Flash integration technologies (XML, Remoting, Webservices)
• Experience in related technologies and APIs is an advantage (i.e. Papervision 3D, Facebook API…)
• English speakers are welcome!

Please send your CV and portfolio to Thomas Meyer.
We can only accept applications via e-mail.

For further information about Less Rain visit:
http://www.lessrain.com
http://blog.lessrain.com
 

After almost a year in development, we finally went live with www.costanavarino.com, and immediately got ‘Site of the day’ in www.thefwa.com.

We have been working on the branding of this prime holiday destination since 2 years now, arguably the biggest branding exercise Less Rain had ever gone through. To this end we have enlisted the help of our friends at Praline

The website aims to collect information from all areas of knowledge related to Costa Navarino - history, flora, fauna, traditions, food - and prepare the visitor for the wealth of experience Costa Navarino has to offer.

The site has been built in a totally dynamic way, with full screen content and a variety of AS3 animations connecting all pages and interface elements in a seamless fashion. It features a computational soundtrack, using a small number of samples to construct 25 different sound scapes, saving a great deal of download time.

The Red Bull Soapbox Racer has been showered with awards this week. After winning gold twice at the Davey Awards, we’ve also won gold at the London International Awards in the Online Games category - ahead of Dentsu, Tribal DDB and Sapient. Soapbox Racer is currently also nominated at the British Interactive Media Awards.