The Barbarian Group

The Barbarian Group is a technology lab meets creative agency. Founded by Keith Butters and Benjamin Palmer in 2001, the NYC based company has morphed from a highly technical production shop in its infancy to a full service problem solver for all things digital, ranging from strategy and code to UX, media and film production. The departments and thinking have evolved with the
pace of the Internet, but the passion remains: to use technology to creatively solve problems, to tell nuanced stories across emerging mediums, and to make the world more interesting.

Under the leadership of CEO Sophie Kelly, recent work included: helping Samsung completely rethink their in-store retail experience with Centerstage, explaining how General Electric uses acoustics and frequency to fix machines, and bringing new utility to Clinique's customer relationships on mobile. We also created an A.I. Challenge for IBM.

Barbarian Group places a unique emphasis on their technical capabilities and problem solving, with a range of developers coding solutions for out of home experiences, mobile applications and web. Our expertise is in open source technologies, building in
WebGL, HTML5/JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, and C++.

Developers at Barbarian are included early in the creative process, working hand in hand with visual and user experience designers and creatives from concepting to design to deployment. We keep ourselves up to date, as well as the rest of the agency, by learning as a team with Tech Workshops, speakers, and side projects. And we keep our code clean through peer review, camaraderie and Just Enough process. We don't just use open source technologies, we're also contributors with examples such as Cinder, our open
source software for creative coding. The agency was recently awarded the first ever Grand Prix Cannes Lion for Innovation for Cinder. You can learn more about it at: http://libcinder.org/