This isn’t something I do often, this presentation feels importent.
Uservoice.com is a cool dynamic feedback forum that I just heard about trough the grapewine. I decided to get my own and see if annyone got a suggestion or two for newlaseridea.
Click here, or follow the feedback link in the contact box.
I and three other students went to Amsterdam during our second specialization module to do a three week project for Epitaph Europe.
What started as a research brief with the purpose to give us some ground for a promotional tour/CD-release snowballed into a online strategy for the entire record company.
They were taken and looked a bit worried after our presentation. It took then a bit more than 40 minutes to call us and say that they wanted to use it somehow.
A few weeks later they sent an email to tell us that our strategy is going to be presented to the big-shots in the states.
The greatest success yet.
Grönsaker Dirket aproched us and wanted a new graphic profile, they deliver vegetables and other foodstuffs door to door and grow almoast everything themselves. We creatd a new logotype, bags for vetables, potatoes, carrots, a newsletter and did a compleate redesign of their hompage.
As a project manager my big challenges in this run-of-the-mill kind of project was keeping the team inspired and interested in their tasks.
Since we have had some unwanted guests from the insect kingdom here at Hyper Island, I decided to write something about the insects, their take on the school, learning golas and so on. Yvonne Lu helped me out and made some illustrations. This great pice of literature can be foud at our internal blog My Daily Bread.
Sometimes when I have too much spare time I keep developing a small project named rebels or rebellion, I have small notes lying around everywhere, some short stories in a notebook, and a movie script on my computer. It’s a dystopian tale set in modern times in an unnamed European country where culture is strictly controlled by the government. Illegal clubs and file sharing networks try to distribute art, film and music to the people. The story follows Katie, a short quite ugly girl with a shotgun on her back and Rose, a tall man who distributes contraband top-40 songs as they accidently get involved on the first night of open resistance against the government and the civil unrest that follow.
The project is not developing fast and the final form is not set, maybe it could be turned in to one of these episodic buy online computer games that are so popular right now…
Our class released the traditional yearly Hyper Island class-site yesterday.
It was a HUGE project with 50-something peope working on it.
As Chief Copywriter I was in charge of text and all that stuff. I aslo sat in on some meetings the concept people had.
I ran a Blog named This Is Not A Blog during the spring and summer of 2007. There concept was strange, every post was an excerpt of a book, film, play or any other form of pop culture, twisted to fit what I wanted to say in the post. It also told the tale of Johan working as a carpenter over the summer and his strange relationship with Sally, the girl int the apartment below. If a reader guessed the source correctly they would receive a small price or something similar.
When I got into Hyper Island it died an undeserving death.
That’s life.
A Link to the blog – only in Swedish, sorry.
Project description: Create a portfolio to market yourself for the internship in the fall of 2008.
How it was done: I started by thinking about what I had done during this semester and how to present it in a way that showed both the project and my part in them, since I’m not a designer I found one who would help me with the design; Simon Mårtelius, a graphic designer at Farfar agreed to help me.
My part: Creating content and creating a good way of presenting it, I also researched different portfolios to find sources of inspiration for Simon.
How it came out: This is it. The hardest part was to exlude categories from the frontpage, I ended up using a plugin named Advanced Category Excluder. I learned a lot about how php works, not quite enugh to code but I get how it works and what it does.
Project description: Create a visual profile from another group’s concept and development business idea according to their demands. We were to create a graphical profile web platform and a logotype for the company-community Lingua.
How it was done: We got our clear roles in the project and worked against a lot of internal deadlines. The logo was created by the ad and the other people in the graphic department, the webpage was designed to be easy to use with focus on clear icons and a lot of interaction design.
My part: I was the Interaction designer and the copywriter, I read up on interaction design and built a map of the page on my wall to ensure easy navigation, I also made the decision to put the navigation bar in the left side of the screen for faster navigation.
How it came out: we worked a lot with the graphical profile and the client was satisfied.
