The Barbarian Group Wins Inaugural Innovation Lions Grand Prix

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CANNES, France—Nine years after winning its first Cannes Lion, a gold for Burger King's "Subservient Chicken," The Barbarian Group has secured an even bigger prize: the Grand Prix in the inaugural Innovation Lions contest for a software-development platform it built for creative coders.

The platform, Cinder, "provides a powerful, intuitive toolbox for programming graphics, audio, video, networking, image processing and computational geometry," says its website.

Andrew Bell, the lead architect for the software, recently told a digital graphics blog: "Cinder began life as the in-house creative coding framework for The Barbarian Group.

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