BRACAU 27 BLOG'S

Motion Graphic Designer Martin Bergén describes his internship at B-Reel in Stockholm. This is how he sums it up, in a short but sweet manner.

Hyper Island graduate, Christian Johansson, was recently interviewed by Digital Abstracts on what inspired him to become a designer, what made him kiss his mama goodbye, leave Sweden and Hyper Island and how he ended up at Your Majesty in New York. There is also some thoughts on Flash, the pros and cons of being a Senior Art Director and what to do if you feel uninspired.

Read the article here

Six guys from Hyper Island's Digital Media 10 class decided to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and try their luck at different agencies in the land of the brave and home of the free. By the looks and sound of it, there is no place they would rather be.

HINYC REPORT from Gregory Solenström on Vimeo.

For the third consecutive year, SI (The Swedish Institute) is organizing its widely acclaimed Young Leaders Visitors Program in Sweden, a program that is facilitated by Hyper Island. Via social media and network building, the YLVP is designed to support young opinion makers from MENA* in their efforts to promote freedom of expression and democratic development in their region. New features in this year’s program are extensive cooperation with the Tällberg Foundation at Rework the World and the presence of participants from Yemen.

In 2008, over 20 people took part in the program, including the world-famous Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas. In 2009, the participants numbered 35 from eight countries, and at this year’s program 28 people from 10 countries will be taking part. The program runs from 10 to 30 May in Stockholm and Karlskrona. Through the Young Leaders Visitors Program, SI is taking on the highly important task of making the blog movement in the Middle East better known to the world.

“A burning issue in the region is the need to give young people a chance to express themselves and to find meaningful work,” says Javeria Rizvi Kabani, the YLVP project leader at SI.

After the program ends, this year’s participants will meet up with participants from previous years and with some 2 000 dignitaries, decision-makers and grassroots activitists for two intensive days at Rework the World in Leksand, central Sweden. The theme of this 5th Global YES Summit is international networks and new green jobs. Thus the aim of developing long-term, productive networks for the YLVP participants looks thoroughly realistic.

For the first time, participants from Yemen will also be attending YLVP 2010. The list includes:

· A 29-year-old woman from Tunisia who on her own initiative has compiled a list of all Internet users in her country who have had their profiles on Facebook blocked by the censors. She has then sent the persons concerned technical solutions enabling them to get round the censorship.

· Ali Fahkry from IndyACT in Lebanon, who is working with environmental issues both in his own country and in the Arab world in a very exciting way, using social media.

· Hana Al-Khamri from Yemen, a journalist and human rights activist whose articles have often been too controversial for newspapers to publish. To get them out, she has used such channels as the Al-Jazeera Talk Blog, a site that is blocked by the Yemeni government from time to time precisely because of the sensitive nature of its content.

· Kacem Jlidi from Tunisia, a project leader from dance4life, which is an international initiative combining dance and social media seeking to give young people a powerful voice to counter the stigmatization and taboos surrounding HIV. This initiative was described as an excellent example by Kofi Annan in 2004.

The Swedish participants in this year’s program are Johanna Wallin, a journalist resident in Palestine, Gabrielle Jönsson, a journalist based in Shanghai and Dhaka, Andreas Hasslert from Ibn Rushd and Marina Ferhatovic from Swedish public service television (SVT).



Follow the YLVP live at www.ylvp.se
Background (in English): http://www.si.se/ylvp_background
The YLVP on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXkOOw6KaY0
Rework the World: http://www.reworktheworld.org/

There is still a chance for all you aspiring Hyper Island students that might of missed the opportunity to visit us on our global tour. As of late we have included another tour stop, "the digital recruitment" that makes is available to apply anytime anywhere.
The Digital Recruitment is available for students that are applying for a seat at Hyper Island's Diploma Programs.

Read more on the Hyper Island Tour Site.

Hyper Island's YH (AVET) Programs are open only to persons fluent in any of the following Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Faeroese) regardless of nationality or citizenship.
This is a government regulation requirement for all YH-programs. We are happy to give persons who don't speak any of the above listed Scandinavian languages the opportunity to apply to our Diploma Programs.



(If you are applying as an YH student, please click here)

What is the XV ? We'ill find out more on 14 May. Until then, check out this teaser from the Digital Media 11 Class in Karlskrona.

What is XV? from whatisxv on Vimeo.

Due to volcanic ashes and the travel chaos that has followed, the Recruitment Day in London has been re-scheduled for 22 May. Read more here

Click here to get to the nominations page.

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

For B-Reel's latest CAT Scan installment, the company challenged its interns to come up with an intriguing post. Martin Bergen, also a student at Hyper Island, emerged the winner, conjuring drugs, Einstein and murder to help jump start your creativity. Read the post here

We invite you all to join us for the Hyper Island Recruitment Day as we return to Stockholm
on March 27.

The Recruitment Day is for students applying for the Diploma seats at one of our long term programs.
(Read more on the difference between applying as a YH-student and Diploma student here)

The details:

A Recruitment Day takes approximately 8 – 10 hours and consists of:

A personal interview. Informal meetings with Hyper Island students and staff
An individual creative task
A team assignment

Address: Dialoggatan 16, Hägersten, Stockholm (4th floor). For application information click here
Time: 9 am.
Date: March 27 2010

We look forward to meeting the future talents of the Digital Media Industry. If you are ready to experience a fun, frustrating, enriching and life changing educational journey, the first step is to sign up for a place at the Hyper Island Recruitment day. Are you looking for the best job in the world within Digital Media? Apply for a seat NOW!

Download the catalogue here as a pdf

Director of the Hyper Island Diploma Programs, Hussain H. Kabani and Digital Media student David Walegren attended the Young Leader’s Social Media Cafe in Lebanon to speak about Hyper Island. The conference hosted around 20 speakers coming from various backgrounds but with one common interest: Social Media.
Most speakers talked about how social media today is being used to cause social change in their community. The Middle East is struggling with many issues ranging from freedom of expression to social inequality. Social media is acting as a catalyst in resolving cultural issues and not just providing new channels for advertisers to target consumers.

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.

What do we learn at a Hyper Island Master Class? Participant Kathy Hepinstall made a list Did you for instance know that Banner ads are uncool, like a golfer’s pants and most people in the world will never own a computer. They will interconnect with the digital world on their cell phones. Even in places where there is no electricity, people use their cellphones...

Hyper Island students Henrik&Sofia create the world's first mixable youtube video.