BRACAU 27 BLOG'S

All of Hyper Island’s programs start off with a team-bulding course. The overall objective of the course is for the participants to become more efficient as group members and as leaders.
We believe that learning takes place when you are exposed to different situations and they way in that you handle the specific task that has been put before you. Reflection, group dynamics and understanding your own role are the keys to this process.

During the first weeks at Hyper Island, students focus on:
– Strengthening your knowledge about themselves,
– Understanding how a group develops,
– Personal development, as an individual and as a team member.

This will lay the foundation for all upcoming work at Hyper Island, where students, almost exclusively, will work in groups, giving a lot of attention to the group process but also to their own personal development.

20th May is the final day to apply for YH seats at our long term programs. In other words - there is still time!
Recently Swedish Metro published an article about how to become a millionaire by developing mobile apps. That could be you! Hyper Island will be starting a program for designing and developing applications for mobile devices this fall. Our other programs are also designed to take you all the way to the top, to become the most sought after talent in the digital and interactive communication industry. But that's not all. During your time at Hyper Island, this life changing journey, you will not only challenge yourself in creativity and idea generation but also as member of a team, developing leadership skills, team-member skills as well as trying out all the relevant roles and disciplines of a digital creator, project manager and producer.

Hyper Island in a Nutshell from Martin Bergén on Vimeo.

See you in August!

The Motion Graphics Design field as an art form has developed enormously recent years. Due to digital and interactive development the styles have been become more elaborate, more refined, and more complex. On another note, 12 minutes of every hour that is broadcasted on television is actually made up by motion graphics. In other words, there is a great demand for skilled and innovative motion graphic designers and developers out there. That is why we are constantly are keeping our eye on the industry's needs when we continue to develop our motion graphics program, bringing in top expertise to guide and feedback on our students work.


This one-year program takes you on a unique Hyper Island educational experience that touches on Flash animation, editing, 3D and compositing as well as web authoring and brand development and much more.
Your final 14 weeks will be spent on an internship, probably at one of 600 companies in Hyper Island’s global network and when you graduate you will be able to create innovative digital solutions including creating ideas, concepts, design, functions and technologies for future platforms at any top agency in the world. It is up to you!

Motion work by Hyper Island students.




Some inspiration:

Creamyorange 2008 Creative Reel from Nick Campbell on Vimeo.

contagiousmagazine.com writes about the Digital Media 11 students in Stockholm's Whydeo project:

"Now there's nothing we like more at Contagious than championing a bit of young blood - some of the cream of which courses through Sweden's progressive Hyper Island school, headquartered in Stockholm. It is here that a team of digital media students will today unveil a brand-spanking new communication experiment - Whydeo..."
Read the full article here

A combination of Twitter and Chatroulette. That is how the Digital Media students at Hyper Island Stockholm descbribe their new site whydeo.com. Users can record any question they like through their webcam and a video respons to that question can be recorded by another user who believes that he/she has a fun, interesting or relevant answer.

Digital Media Student Elin Aram was interviewed on the project in the Swedish trade magazine Resumé. Read the article here (in Swedish)

Daniele Fiandanca on what he learned while visiting Hyper Island:

"Last month I had the pleasure of going to visit both campuses of Hyperisland to deliver a lecture around my view of the past, present and future. It was fantastic to get the chance to interact with such talented students and to hear how they see things now and what they think will be big in the future. Here are some of the things I learnt from my visit:" Read the full post here

The Hyper Island Recruitment Tour returns to dear old Stockholm on 17 April. We are looking for the future talent of the digital media industry and would love to meet you all at Hyper Island's Stockholm headquarters at Telefonplan next Saturday.

Apply for a seat here

A new nation was launched last night at 9.pm. Its citizens consists of the Interactive Art Director Students at Hyper Island. Click here to find out more.

Ideas - The Cloudanian Way from Cloudania on Vimeo.

Hyper Island continues to bring in exceptional creatives from the digital media industry On thursday Rama Allen from Digital Kitchen comes to Hyper Island Karlskrona, and on Friday he visits Stockholm.

- Typically- I talk about my personal process and how DK works as well as umbrella theories on being creative and how I pitch. Then run through a few projects with details and background that supports these processes and my own style of thinking of stuff. Then I open up to a discussion and do Q + A.

Starting 2010 the Swedish military service is no longer mandatory. The Armed Forces are looking to attract talent – brain rather than muscles – to fullfill their missions abroad. Our student's challenge was to rebrand the Swedish Armed Forces from a traditional defensive collective into a modern employeer. How did they do it? Interactive Art Director students Robbin Ingvarsson, Fredrik Holmberg, Kristina Herngren, Anke Buchta, Simon Schlüter & Waldemar Wegelin made a movie about the process:

Hansa Pact for the Swedish Armed Forces from Anke Buchta on Vimeo.

The Hyper Island Recruitment Tour comes to Stockholm! Apply now or read more here
Date: February 27
Time: 9 am.
Location: Dialoggatan 16 in Hägersten
T: Telefonplan

Don't be a stranger!

Last night Danish architect Bjarke Ingels talked at Hyper Island Sessions. The talk was on the architect’s view on the world, his visions and philosophy as he showed various examples of his bureau BIG's (Bjarke Ingels Group) work. Bjarke is known for his playful and humoristic way of doing things in combination with a strong social and analytic pathos


Later he was joined by Swedish architects Bolle Tham och Martin Videgård who talked about the architect’s social responsibility with Bjarke and the audience. Emma Rost, editor in cheif for Room, moderated the discussion

Digital Media students Johan Robert and Elin showing a potential student the ropes

We would like to say thank you to all everybody who came to our guided tour of Hyper Island Stockholm yesterday afternoon. There where a lot of clever and interesting questions that our current students answered before guiding the visitors/ potential new students through a few hours in the day of of Digital Media or Interactive Art Director Student.



Would you like to visit Hyper Island? Check out our website for upcoming dates that will be published shortly

Are you thinking about applying? Read more here

6 months of Hyper Island in 1 minute from Karolina Brantås on Vimeo.

Fredrik Weinestad, Digital Media student at Hyper Island recently won a Crunchie award, alongside competitors like Google and Facebook. The Crunchies are sort of like the Oscars for Internet start-ups, celebrating the biggest innovations of the year. Read the full article here

photo:Resumé.se

Interactive Art Director students Azin Ashourvan and Hanna Wittmark have been hand-picked by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners for a job at the famous agency after presenting a sucessful case brief in a module that was lead by creatives from Goodby.

The job, which is a four month internship starts at the end of march. Hanna and Azin's Baby Talk is a brief for a product that should be able to generate a revenu at stimulate the five senses at the same time. Watch the brief here


Read the interview in the Swedish trade magazine Resumé here (in Swedish)

Hyper Island are proud to announce that we will be offering 3 new long term programs in the fall of 2010.

1. Motion Graphics Designer and Developer in Stockholm
2. Mobile Interface Designer and Developer in Karlskrona
3. E-Commerce Manager in Stockholm

Laura Jordan Bambach, Creative Director from LBi (Lost Boys International) talked about digital branding at Hyper Island Stockholm and Karlskrona this week.

"The lecture was about the changing nature of the industry and the troubles that agencies are facing trying to find a place. Digital is about Conversation and the big question is: how do you make sure that your having the right conversations. There is also the question if the clients are ready to come on this journey with us and how far can we go? . Are they going to try and interact and converse or are they going to buy traditional market space. The answer is: we can go as far as the clients lets us"

What do you think about the Hyper Island student's work?

" I have known Hyper Island for a long time and think what you are doing here is fantastic. It is a great privelege to be here, for me and for the students."

Joy-Ann Bouwmans and Jasper Mittelmeijer from Amsterdam Worldwide came to Hyper Island in Stockholm and Karlskrona in December.

What were you here to talk about? And what kind of questions did the students have for you?

We came to Hyper Island to talk to the students about their portfolios. Right now the Digital Media students are at the start of their portfolio module and you can imagine there are a lot of questions when it comes to creating one. So we were here to answer all of these and help them on their way. We also talked to the Interactive Art Directors in Stockholm who all come from different backgrounds. The questions from the students ranged from what work to put in and what to leave out to how personal you can get in a portfolio. It has been 3 inspiring days talking to all of the Hyper Island students and we hope to have inspired some of them.

What is your take on the Hyper Island students? Are they the future of the digital media industry?

Jasper: Haha! That doesn't sound like you would take no for an answer. And I think it's exactly that level of ambition and love for the work that will get Hyper Island students pretty much anywhere they'd want to go. With the creative and social skills they develop in here, I'd say Hyper Island students will be a great addition to any agency or studio. I was well impressed. Thanks for that!

Joy: As an old student it’s great to see the students are all still very eager to learn and very driven, focused. The best thing about Hyper Island is its ‘learning by doing’ approach which prepares the students to adapt quickly to new situations. I think this is a very useful skill within the ever-changing environment of, what we call today, digital media. Who knows what digital media develops into in the future, but Hyper Island students will be fully prepared to adjust themselves to and take on any situation. Thank you for having us and hope to see you in the near future!

Le Laboureur - Made for Hard Work (Hyper Island, Interactive User Experience)

This was an interactive concept for french work wear brand Le Laboureur; re-defining what Hard Work is, by letting workers of all professions claim recognition and get appreciated for their efforts.Made by Hyper Island students Sveinung Skaalnes Anna María Larsson, Lasse Korsgaard, Nathan Ross and Ämeli Hansson (Interactive Art Director 2010.)

Le Laboureur - Made for Hard Work from Sveinung Skaalnes on Vimeo.