Monkey: Journey to the West is a stage adaptation of the 16th Century Chinese novel Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en. It was conceived and created by the Chinese actor and director Chen Shi-zheng, together with the British musician Damon Albarnand British artist Jamie Hewlett. This production is a triumph of collaboration - between old and new, sight and sound, East and West. Developed in conversation between Beijing, Dalian, Paris, London and Manchester it brings together traditional disciplines - acrobatics, singing, dancing - with emphatically modern technology including animation and dazzling video projection.

In order to solve a complex need for the mixed sales of physical and digital products Grapewire built a custom web shop with ties to multiple suppliers.

The Monkey Store covers all kinds of related merchandise ranging from kites, tea, books and CDs to digital music download.

Since the first show held in 1999 (in an airplane hangar), Iceland Airwaves has become one of the premier showcases for new music – Icelandic and otherwise – in the world. It’s been called “the most innovative music festival since CMJ” and “as responsible for all of Reykjavík’s recent positive press as Björk herself”.

Some of the world’s most exciting artists, including Suede, The Flaming Lips, The Hives, Fatboy Slim, Thievery Corporation and rising stars such as Florence And The Machine, White Lies and Friendly Fires have made the short hop from Europe or North America to share the stages with Iceland’s finest talents: Sigur Rós, Gus Gus, Jagúar, Quarashi, Leaves, Trabant, FM Belfast, Steed Lord and many, many more. And when the live bands are finished, top DJs spin across the city until dawn.

The Grapewire team designs, engineers and manages online operations including ticket sales for this years festival.

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Following a careful analysis of how and when the Airwaves team needed to maintain information about artists and venues the Grapewire team implemented a flexible maintenance system which also tracked information on the hundreds of acts willing to play the festival.

The actual ticket sales combined simple online sales incorporated into the Airwaves site, accepting payments in five different currencies and a physical outlet. The same system was used at the Airwaves center when wristbands were handed out.

Both the web version and the mobile guide were constantly updated and featured some unique ways plan the ideal venue hopping experience.

This custom solution addresses the complete communication needs of the festival in all phases of the production from the early planning phase right to the last email announcement of the upcoming 12th Iceland Airwaves festival in 2010.

Grapewire has partnered with Streamburst in bringing the massively popular series to your desktop. All the shows are protected with a personal watermark but still delivered in standardized format swaying away from proprietary DRM solutions for high quality online video content.

A series of complicated distribution contracts is behind popular TV assets like the LazyTown children's program. The show has been exposed to over 150 markets throughout the world some the first order of online business was to make up a matrix of where and when the assets are made available. Through use of geo-blocking, access of each market is controlled to make sure that the online availability of the TV episodes and the music are not in breach of existing contracts for that particular territory.

Watermarking technology was also applied to deter from content theft. All the technology behind the presentation, selling and distribution of the TV episodes and music is built into the unique look and feel of the LazyTown website.

The LazyTown Digital Store is open so come on in!