Yunomi, the largest online community for and by women in the Benelux, has been awarded the European Mixx Award in the category ‘Lead Generation’! No small feat–and we are fittingly proud of this achievement.

A few months ago, the Belgian part of the Yunomi team moved shop from Brussels to Antwerp to join the happy crowd here at Design is Dead. A lucky decision, because after the Belgian Silver Mixx Award of last year, last week this online community for and by women did one better: it took home the European Mixx Award in the category Lead Generation! This joint project of Emakina.nl and Design is Dead for Unilever is a huge success, as these numbers prove: with 315.000 members, 1 million visitors per month, and more than 3.6 million comments posted over the past two years, Yunomi can safely be said to be one of the most important online communities around. Gooooooooooo team!

A few days ago, Panasonic launched a new Facebook game called Evolta City. This clever and highly addictive game, concept & design by Design is Dead & development by Sevenedge, is a part of Panasonic’s campaign to promote its new line of revolutionary Evolta batteries.

Wondering how it works? In order to help Mr. Evolta build Evolta City, the first CO2-free city on the Web, you as a player collect power by inviting friends and taking a series of actions to boost their sustainability such as building eco-houses, buying electric cars or building windmills. Simple as that! Well, maybe at face value it is. But make no mistake: this Facebook game is much more than just another Farmville clone. Why? First and foremost, it is an exciting and fun game to play that will keep you busy for hours on end. In addition, the game is very easy to figure out, looks amazingly attractive (how could it not, thanks to our wonderful designers?), and is never ever boring due to the many options and challenges you encounter. We are very proud to have delivered such an exemplary piece of online gaming!

Your friends for a free phone? Sounds like a fair trade operation! BASE launched this member-gets-member procedure, and we created the accompanying website. A clean, userfriendly and agile hotspot where visitors easily find their way to the required information and gifts.

What happens when you put a Mentos dragee in a bottle of coke? Well, you get a fountain as explosive as a Design is Dead creation… Some fun-lovin’ fools turned this experiment into a World Record sport, and we happily created a very bubbly website for the belgian World Record attempt. In a (world) record of time, for that matter!

When Sancta Media decided to cross media and borders with this cultural project for kids, we gladly crossed those borders with them. Gently trashing up the cultural heritage of China, Mexico, Mali and India, we came up with a street-artistic website and some Design is Dead-cool animations.