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One Race Wear

We've just completed the development of the One Race Wear microsite for our friends Bionic Systems and their client One Industries. Bionic Systems were responsible for the project and art direction, we added our Flash treatment:

Bug in Firefox 3.0.1 MAC

In the last few days I've been experiencing weird rendering problems in some websites while using the latest stable version of Firefox (3.0.1) in MAC. Searching google I found more people having similar issuses like blinking pages when using SWFAddress for Flash in FF3 MAC. - SWFAddress Help Forum - Firefox 3 + ...

.NET Awards 2008

Less Rain has been nominated for agency of the year at the 2008 .NET Awards, and our Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab has been nominated for website of the year! Vote now, at thenetawards.com. Update: Voting is over, Flight Lab made it onto the short list for website of the year! ...

Less Rain and RDF launch ‘A Message From Earth’ on Bebo

The 'A Message From Earth' project invites Bebo users to submit messages and pictures that consider the planet from a fresh perspective. A selection of these messages will be broadcast from the National Space Agency in Ukraine on October 9th. The messages will travel on an ...

Talk about the Weather Vol.3

Tuesday August 5th: Volume 3 of talk about the weather! Four inspiring, colourful and must-see presentations made a great evening! Learn more about talk about the weather and subscribe to our newsletter. By subscribing, you will get an invitation once a month automatically. See the photos of Vol.3 here.

Less Rain London is looking for a Senior Designer

We are looking for a senior interactive designer / creative lead with a solid academic background in design and substantial online experience in building rich-media websites. You will be responsible for coming up with concepts for corporate & consumer websites, designing interaction with the information architecture in mind, as well as ...

Internship at Less Rain Berlin office

We are currently looking for an intern. Do you have open eyes and an open mind? Are you interested in travelling through digital culture, experiencing new pixel breezes and swimming in a pool of creative ideas? If you’re: - interested in working for a creative web design agency in the center of Berlin - excited ...

Flash loading and browser cache test-suite

As a little homage to our most popular and seemingly helpful blog post about the Nasty XML load bug in Internet Explorer I created an app that tests the caching behavior of the browser it's running in. To recap - Loading XML files in Flash over an SSL Connection in Internet ...

Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab - Mini Hangar Widget

As a practical add-on for our loyal Flight Lab users we created a mini hangar widget that users can embed on their blog, social platform profile etc. We happily used Clearspring as the platform for our widget, just click "Get this and Share" and take it away. If you enter the ...

Talk About The Weather

On Tuesday June 10th talk about the weather had its debut. While slurping either the London, Berlin or Tokyo cocktail the audience listened to TINA ROEDER, LARS EBERLE, DAVID KRINGS and PETER BUENNAGEL. Learn more about talk about the weather and subscribe to our newsletter. Become a member of the facebook ...

Ronzo’s Disstopia

Disstopia features all new canvases, collages, installations and drawings by long time friend and less rain collaborator Ronzo - also known as Ron Jonzo. The new work is based on an apocalyptic vision set in the wastelands of what was once the City of London. When: 19th of June - 06 of ...

Stofanel Investment AG

We've recently completed the website for the German/Italian property investment firm Stofanel Investment AG. A subtle use of Flash and Papervision 3D creates an abstract, dreamy and atmospheric paper space to reflect the company's vision of a harmonious relationship between nature, architecture, community and self. The corporate identity we developed in collaboration ...

Flight Lab at FITC (update)

Flight Lab just won at Flash in the Can! Nothing on the site yet, but I found it here. Hope it's true. We were nominated in the categories "3D" and "Technical Excellence". While we won the first one, the latter went to preloaded for "Launchball" - congratulations! Apparently, we also won ...

O2 The Memory Project

Last Friday we launched the first part of The Memory Project, an online 3D image bank (made with PV3D) of the 21st century 'cyclorama' created by artist Jason Bruges. Inspired by Bluebook, the artist Jason Bruges has created The Memory Project - a 21st century 'cyclorama'. ...

Flight Lab at FITC

Flight Lab is a finalist at this year's FITC Awards, in the categories 3D and in Technical Excellence. Cast your vote at the Peoples Choice Award at http://awards.fitc.ca/pc/

Red Bull Flugtag Flight Lab

Bring on the wood and sheet metal! Break out your saw! Cut the pieces to size, assemble them, paint them and... voila! You've built your own airplane. Now it's time to get it off the ground... will it fly...? As of today, Less Rain's new 3-D model ...

Developing Flight Lab

At the beginning it's always simple. "Everybody draw crazy airplanes and then fly them." We wanted a fun experience, no boring modeling session, no nerdy flight simulation. Just draw an outline, booom!, airplane wing Flight Lab uses Papervision3D to show 3-D models and these models have to be created in a ...

Apple’s new iShelf touch

Shortly after introducing the world's thinnest notebook Apple is surprising us with another superlative, the world's thinnest CD rack - the new iShelf touch. It's ultra thin, and ultra unlike anything else. Now you can really show off your CD collection, not just on your tiny iPod touch screen or your ...

Do you know your target group?

satire of an adidas spot. and this is the original with all the heavily branded kids

Tine & Mikkel go gold!

Mikkel Due Pedersen and Tine Päch form Less Rain London won the O2 Mobile Movie Award 2007 with their movie "Wild Nights". MTV-host Patrice Bouédibéla presented them with the award on the 9th of February in Berlin, as well as cheque for 10.000 Euro. Here is a translation from ...