the barbarian group
The original. The pioneers. The Barbarian Group is a digital services and creation company that delivers the best possible experience for the consumer through the integrated and disciplined use of the best possible practices, good ideas, people and technology. Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as fear, surprise
, art direction, design, technology, content creation, strategy, gaming, viral marketing, an almost radical devotion to Internet culture and nice red Swedish Fish™. In short, all skills in service to providing the best interactive marketing possible. To wit:
Art Direction
Oh yeah, man. Art direction. Boy, can we art direct. Oh ...
Design
Design. Graphic Design. Shaken, not stirred. We get asked ...
Strategy
This whole site, really, is a testament to the kind of ...
Games
Game design. We love games. Games are everywhere. And you ...
Viral Marketing
This is an old article I wrote. But it’s good for ...
2925
Those that know me know I am a sucker for multitudes. Many of anything intrigues me more than single things ever could. So it wouldn’t be much of a surprise to find out that I took 2925 dice and formed them into a bitmap image of the Madonna. Thats the Madonna, and not just [...]
Job 1,000
I have so many good new sites and projects to post about – and good stuff to update – and I totally will, soon, starting next monday.
But for now I just wanted to say that today The Barbarian Group passed job number 1000. Wow.
Congrats, everyone. I hope Pipeline, Jobs, TBG.com Admin, Resources and Cabal don’t break.
Songs about everything. Posters about songs about everything.
A few months ago we helped Adobe launch Photoshop Express, their free online version of Photoshop that lets folks mess around with and store (up to 2GB of) their photos. Excellent, right? Yes.
In that tradition of excellence, we also created a bunch of original songs for the members of Photoshop Express to use in their personal slideshows. When I say “we”, I really mean my good and extremely talented friend Sean T Drinkwater. This guy isn’t messing around when it comes to music. His songs are pretty awesome. See (or listen) for yourself at psxmusic.com.

More Transparency in Action
I did a long, sprawling review with Nick Parish a few weeks ago, and it’s made its way into a really fascinating article Nick wrote on pricing online production that I think it a great article, with a lot of really useful and TRUE insight into our business. It’s up on Creativity and in this week’s Advertising Age, so check it out here























