BRACAU 27 BLOG'S

Waldemar from the Interactive Art Director Class 10 packed his bags a few months ago to try his luck as an intern at W+K in Tokyo. In true Hyper Island style he has summarized his internship as a list containing 1o reflections.
Read them here

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.

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.

The Digital Media students are doing their internship all across the world. Andreas Johansson, who graduates this summer left Karlskrona in August for Boulder, Colorado and an internship within Interactive Production at Crispin Porter + Bogusky.

During the autumn he worked as Interactive Coordinator for Volkswagen, Amex, Guitar Hero and Brammo as well as a position as Junior Producer dedicated to the Volkswagen account.

”My Hyper Island education helped me a lot in terms of being a self managing leader, a problem solver and never turning myself into a victim but actually asking myself how I could have handled certain situations better and trying to understand the different behaviors of my colleagues. In some ways CP+B is exactly like Hyper Island. You make your own decisions and decide how much you want to commit to the company. My five months at CP+B, Boulder, could easily have turned into a "surfing the web"-"drinking coffee"-"chatting" experience but I decided to squeeze out every second of my time there, which I did.”

Interactive Art Director 2009 students are currently doing their internships all over the globe. A few of the students checked in with us to tell us how they're doing:

"I'm doing my internship at Fallon in Tokyo. If you don't mind cutting down on sleep, eating great food, sit in parks under cherry trees, getting stared at or being able to buy birthday cakes at 4 in the morning; then this is the place for you.

The Fallon office is located in a nice area of town called Omotesando. The people here have been very friendly and helpful. I get to work with big clients such as Heineken and Lancôme. I'm also trying to learn Japanese, but it's kind of hard.
All in all, I'm having a great time over here!

Arigatougozaimasu! (A very polite form of  'thank you')"
--Adrian Tomic, at Fallon Tokyo, Japan


"The first thing I noticed when I arrived at Great Works was the great big wall with drawings and messages on it. Everyone who visits or works at Great Works Barcelona leave their mark here, literally!


Another thing I noticed was the attitude here, everyone is really friendly and very relaxed, deadlines are met but without stress!"
--Lina Wahlgren, at Great Works Barcelona, Spain


"Droga5 is a great place filled with friendly people who do some amazing work. I think that Droga5 have redefined what advertising is and can be. Their work just blows me away, so of course I'm very excited to be a part of the team here. The most inspiring experience so far is to be surrounded by all these talented people and have the privilege to work with them. I hope to learn more about the strategy behind a succesful concept and hopefully I can also contribute with some of the experience I have gained from my time at Hyper Island.

Studying at Hyper Island has really helped me increase my knowledge and skills in digital media and without this experience I wouldn't be where I am today."
--Filip Kleremark, at Droga5, New York, USA


"It’s 23:13 in Amsterdam and I’m still at work. But don’t get me wrong, I’m still here because it’s fun, and also because we got a deadline tomorrow morning...
I like the place and the people who are very friendly, something I noticed the first day. Wieden + Kennedy have offices all over the world but I can only speak for Amsterdam, and this office is great.
Got to get back to work."
--Johan Schönfeldt, at Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam, Netherlands


"Arriving at Wieden + Kennedy in London, the first thing I noticed was that they had grown quite a bit since my last visit a couple of years ago. From around 50 employees to almost 160 – in the same office! That means that people are working in the kitchen, in the conference rooms, in the toilets (joking). Fortunately, Wieden + Kennedy is renovating a new building across the street to fill with people.

After almost four weeks, I can say for sure that the most inspiring experience so far has been the people that I have had the pleasure of working with. Everyone knows exactly what they are doing and why. With my former experience of sometimes having to work with less ambitious people, it’s a true relief that I don’t have to go on about stuff that needs to be fixed – it’s already been taken care of!

London has so far been a city seen from the tube, the office and our apartment, i.e. I haven’t had much of a chance exploring it yet. I have bought a bicycle though, so at least I now get to know the crazy left-hand traffic of the East end.

It’s only one week left to our pitch presentation so I better go get some sleep now. I’m beginning to feel a bit nervous but we (me and Hemant who is a copywriter from India) have some good stuff so I think it will be great. Welcome to optimisim, as we say at Wieden + Kennedy."
--Dennis Rosenqvist, at Wieden + Kennedy London, UK


Follow the class' internship experiences at their Internship Blog:
http://spaceisthelimit.com/blog/

Today is the last Wednesday we'll get to spend with our Interactive Art Director students in a while - they're leaving us to spend the next 13 weeks at their internship placements all over the world.

Hyper Island's students arrange their internships placements themselves, which makes us even more proud to announce where our Interactive Art Director 2009 students are going;

AD&D, Stockholm, Sweden
Birth, Stockholm, Sweden
DDB Stockholm, Sweden
Doberman, Stockholm, Sweden
Droga 5, New York, USA
Fallon Tokyo, Japan
Garbergs, Stockholm, Sweden
Good Old, Malmö, Sweden
Great Works Barcelona, Spain
Great Works New York, USA
Great Works Stockholm, Sweden
King Stockholm, Sweden
Locomotiv, Stockholm, Sweden
Lowe Brindfors, Stockholm, Sweden
North Kingdom Skellefteå, Sweden
Perfect Fools New York, USA
POKE, London, UK
Storåkers, Stockholm, Sweden
Syrup New York, USA
Syrup Stockholm, Sweden
Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wieden + Kennedy London, UK
Wieden + Kennedy Portland, USA

We wish you great learning experiences and can't wait to hear all about it! We'll keep following updates to your site, Space is the Limit, until we meet again!

Thursday evening, November 6th, we celebrated our Digital Media 2009 Stockholm students who will start their internships next week.
Our Stockholm students will be joining Digital Media Karlskrona students who are currently at companies all over the world, doing their internships since August this year.

With placements in London, Stockholm, New York City, Los Angeles, Boulder, Göteborg, Barcelona, Madrid, Amsterdam, Paris, Sydney and Skellefteå, we wish our students the best of luck! We look forward to hearing of your future learning experiences.

You, too, can follow the students at their DM09 Stockholm blog.

One of my responsibilities as a co-worker at Hyper Island is to be the contact person for students who do their internships. Our goal is always to meet with the students in person, but this can be hard to achieve when the students are spread out all over the world. For example. the first Interactive Art Director students who are doing their internships right now, are everywhere from New York, Sydney, Montreal and San Francisco to Peking, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Barcelona. In fact, we've got an Inteactive Art Director student on all five inhabited continents in the world.

One of them is Stina, who is at Poke in London. One of Stinas colleagues during her internship is Nicky, who also has a blog about sock monsters, typography, web things and other stuff that strikes her fancy. Nicky's also been kind enough to host the third stop in our virtual road trip.

Allright, I'm off for my first class in Japanese!

We met with Ogilvy New York to tell them more about Hyper Island. They were excited to get to know our students better - Arash Kazeminejad, Creative Talent Sourcing Manager tells us more:

What makes you interested in Hyper Island students as interns? What do you imagine makes students from Hyper Island stand out?
In my experience, Hyper Island students tend to be more well rounded compared to other advertising and design students. Most other schools seem to focus on the “big idea”, but Hyper Island students actually have the technical ability to execute their projects while maintaining their vision. I also like that the program puts an emphasis on conceptual thinking, management skills, and teamwork.

Is there something particular from the Swedish culture that makes students from the school a good complement at Ogilvy?
When I read about the past crews from Hyper Island, I liked seeing that students come from all over the world. I think the global perspective at Hyper Island is good for us because we are always looking for fresh thinking from a different viewpoint. The influence of Swedish culture is also very positive in a work environment because it is relaxed, but at the same time, very pragmatic. I also think that Swedish culture is unique because it incorporates design into daily lifestyle.

What makes Ogilvy a good place for students to spend their internships? Some may view Ogilvy as a huge corporation where students/interns could get less experience with real work than they expect, what is your view on that? From a student's point of view, what are the advantages of spending one's internship placement at a larger company?
Yes, Ogilvy is a large company, but size should be seen as an advantage, not as a disadvantage. As a company, we emphasize the need to have greater collaboration between design, interactive, broadcast, and print. This is a unique quality in the agency world because few companies have the resources Ogilvy has. We also encourage people to go beyond what a job description says and to take initiative if you think that you can add something special to your given project. I think that any Creative or Designer can appreciate this opportunity. A lot of other agencies talk about the depth of their resources and how integrated they are, but we are ahead of our competition because we have been running an integrated program longer than any of the other large-scale agencies. Unlike like many other large-scale agencies, we do not outsource our work. Instead, we do most everything in-house.

What about Ogilvy would you personally like to recommend to potential interns and hires in the industry?
Ogilvy is taking on new types of projects that go beyond typical advertising. For example, we are getting into areas such as building ecommerce platforms, creating and maintaining sites, as well as making branded content. We also have a very supportive work culture and emphasize that a person be well rounded on both a personal and professional level. All in all, an internship here at Ogilvy is a productive experience that will really enhance your overall thinking and growth.


Thank you Arash and Ogilvy!

Crew 11's Johan Gustafsson tells us about his August 2006 - March 2007 internship placement experience:

I just got back from my 7 month internship at Big Spaceship LLC. in New York City. At Big Spaceship I worked mostly with animations for broadcast/web, and realized that motion graphics was the thing that really got to me. The biggest project I've ever worked on, was creating an animated theme for New Years Eve at Times Square. I was also involved in several major projects such as: Ghost Rider, Hungrysuitcase.com, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts TV-spots and Grindhouse.

Case Studies, as seen in reel below:
Target - New Years Eve theme
Creating the main animations for the celebration of New Years Eve at Times Square, NYC. This project had a timespan of 3 weeks.
The six different themes Target wanted us to create were: Cheer, Dance, Peace, Play, Hope and Celebrate.
We animated every theme separate for three different billboards. Reuters, Nasdaq and Discover.

This was one of Big Spaceship's broadcast divsions first jobs. For me, as an intern, it felt great to be a part of something huge like this.
See a video of the result here!

Hungrysuitcase.com - Royal Caribbean
Hungrysuitcase.com is a site made for the travel agency Royal Caribbean. Everything is based on a talking suitcase named Sammy. He's in lead of the entire show, telling you where you should travel, by letting you pack your own suitcase full of interesting stuff. Thereby, generating wether you should go to Alaska, The Caribbean, Mexico, Hawaii or Europe. This was a huge project that took 4 months, and almost everybody at Big Spaceship pitched in.



At Big Spaceship I was treated like an employee and was handed real client work from day one. When you're given that kind of responsibility, it feels like you landed in the right place, you hit the spot, you're home.
I'm really happy with my internship, I came to a great place, and I've learnt a lot.
The Big Spaceship crew did a really good job making me feel like a part of the team, a valuable member. Big up to the crew!

The next step for me is to keep evolving within the fields of Motion Graphics. This is the fastest growing extension of computer graphics, and it gets bigger by the hour.


Best of luck to you Johan!

Hyper Island met with top agencies in London, Barcelona and Stockholm and asked why they appreciate their Hyper Island interns and why they think Hyper Island is an extraordinary school: