Thursday, June 19, 2008
Hyper Island students are winning amazing awards in Cannes at the moment! And Hyper Island is mentioned again and again in the media. Have a look here for example. (Only in Swedish though. Sorry!)
Hyper Island is often mentioned in the media all over the world. The british Knitware Blog recently interviewed Hyper Island CEO Mattias Hansson about the school and if you are interested in what we do, you should really check it out!
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Flowers, strawberries and champagne!
Roger hands out compliments!
Thoughtful faces!
Gifts for everybody! Cheers!
Ball, means cool in Swedish and this is a word the class used to describe each other.
Monday, June 16, 2008
We brought everything we could find, stuffed it in the car and took off to Småland!
We shared a tent with Piraja where we gave the festival visitors a boring little white card, and asked them to make it more interesting and fun. 
They could use whatever they wanted to use. Like crayons, sticky tape, hair, a used tissue and so on.
The visitors were very creative!
During the amazing The Hives concert we were seriously cold, but jumped as much as we possibly could too keep warm!Our summer tour has moved on and three of our students are currently hanging out at Dreamhack, the worlds biggest LAN-party with 12 000 visitors and a lot of events and computer game tournaments. I e-mailed Niklas Palm some questions about the event, and this is what he replied:
Hello there! What is it like at Dreamhack?
- It's a totally new experience for us three here and we have never seen so many computers at once before.
Are people sitting quietly in front of their computers or are they socializing as well?
- Most of them are actually sitting at their computers. There is a little expo area here as well which can be pretty crowded when there are no events going on.
What are you doing there?
- We have a little booth in the expo area trying to inform people about Hyper Island and handing out catalogs and collect e-mail addresses.
How is it going?
- Since the average visitor is about 14 years old or younger and there is a lot of stuff going on its quite hard to get them interested in a school for people in their 20's and above. But we are doing our best.
Last week Hyper Island had a visiting lecturer from Crispin Porter + Bogusky, one of the biggest agencies in the US. The vice president, Mr Winston Binge, came here to talk about the agency and give the students some advice for the future. I asked him some questions between his meetings with the students.
What do you think of our students?
- I have a lot of respect for Hyper Island students and the work they do here. I definitely want to work with your students.
How did you hear of the school?
- If you work in this business in the US you know of Hyper Island. People talk of the talent. You guys are world famous.
And what kind of people are you looking for?
- Smart people who likes to have fun, who like pop culture, who have passion in what they do. Team players who like technology. And people who can innovate the industry.
What is going on in the industry at the moment?
- There are a lot of demands from clients at the moment so there are a lot of opportunities.
Do you have any advice for our students?
- Dare to change the business. Be entrepreneurs, and don't settle at being the best at only one thing. Try different things and find out what you really love to do. You don't have to do it all the time, but work towards it.
And what do you think of Sweden?
- Well this is my first visit and it is great. We don' have much time for sightseeing because we've been at the Moving Images convent in Malmö and to Hyper Island in Karlskrona and Stockholm, and now we are going back home. I wish I could stay longer.
