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Last night in, The D&AD student awards became yet another success for the Interactive Art Director 09 students Christian Söderholm and Dennis Rosenqvist. The duo won a first prize pencil for their work for the BBC.
Christian and Dennis, who already won gold and silver in Art Directors Club and two silver statuettes in the Clio Awards, celebrated the win to mark the start of their careers.


– The D&AD pencil is such an honour to receive. I mean, over 3000 entries from all over the world was submitted this year only so of course we are a bit proud of our selves, says Dennis.

The concept consists of a media player called BBC Tag Player, which the user can use to discover and add content in BBC’s programs. Christian explains the idea:
– Let’s say you watch a football game online via BBC. With the Tag Player you can easily find out everything you need to know about the players, like statistics and such, with just one mouse click on the player you want to know more about. And you can of course comment and add your own material to make it even more alive.

The team have, thanks to the awards, already received a lot of job offers from the industry. Dennis recently came home from Wieden + Kennedy London to work for Crispin Porter + Bogusky Europe and Christian continues to work for DDB Stockholm where he did his Hyper Island industry placement.

Dennis sums up:
– This is a perfect end to our studies at Hyper Island.

Read more about Christian and Dennis at www.christiansoderholm.com and www.dennisrosenqvist.com.
See the award winning entry here: www.dennisrosenqvist.com/bbc

Interactive Art Director 2009 students Christian Söderholm and Dennis Rosenqvist received Gold and Silver Cubes in the 88th Art Directors Club Awards.

Last Thursday, the two students went to New York to the annual Art Directors Club Awards. Back home they brought not only the experience of meeting people from the industry around the world, but also not less than two Art Directors Club Cubes!
Gold in Interactive and Silver in Integrated Advertising. Both for Skara Sommarland and the “Take the Challenge” campaign.


– Now we really look forward to the results from the nominations in the CLIO Awards, says Dennis Rosenqvist. Sadly, we can’t afford to go to the gala in Las Vegas. Besides, we have to work a little at our placements too, he continues, laughing.

We previously blogged about Christian and Dennis being on the Clio Awards 2009 student shortlist. Now they're also nominated in the D&AD awards!

D&AD released their nominations for this years student awards last Friday, Christian and Dennis are among the nominated with their work for BBC.
– Fantastic to receive yet another nomination, says Christian Söderholm.

The awards will be announced at the D&AD Student Awards Ceremony on 2 July 2009.
– Of course we hope for the best, Christian continues. A D&AD pencil would be an honour to receive. Especially if you think about the fierce competition.


Click here to see the nominated and award-winning work!


Christian is currently at his internship placement at DDB Stockholm and Dennis is at Wieden + Kennedy London.
You can read more about them at www.christiansoderholm.com and www.dennisrosenqvist.com.