VISION from Ola Syse on Vimeo.

A collab with Digital Media student Alexander Gårdenberg, Ola Syse and Drasko V.
Filmed analogue in a studio with ink and edited in After Effects.

What is Whydeo?

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)

Hyper Island students win 50000 SEK

The digital media class at Hyper Island Karlskrona has made a campaign for argentinian wine producer Finca Flichman's Gestos wine earning them 50 000 SEK. In 23 days they produced a micro site and and ad spot,. Watch the result here (in Swedish)

THE XV

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.

New tour date for Recruitment Day in London

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

Scholarship available for Hyper Island students

The Tomorrow Awards believes in supporting the next generation of creative professionals. To this end, 10% of all entry proceeds will be devoted to a scholarship fund given to renowned international advertising schools. For the inaugural year of the Tomorrow Awards, the selected schools are Hyper Island of Sweden and VCU Brandcenter of the USA.

Tomorrow Awards will showcase and award creative and technological excellence without any categories. The concept of a category neutral award show - the first ever on a global scale - allows only the best ideas to rise to the top, regardless of media or platform.

Read more here

New Program at Hyper Island Karlskrona

Interested in designing and developing these kind of things?

There is a new program at Hyper Island called Application Designer & Developer for Mobile Devices. There is already a large market for these types of applications, and agencies are looking all over for creative, curious and skilled people to start working as application designers and developers. Apply here!

Read what Blekinge Upplevelseindustri writes about it here

London calling

The Hyper Island Recruitment Tour has covered New York, Stockholm, Sao Paulo, London Barcelona and Olso.
On 24 April we return to London in pursuit of the future talent, the rising stars of the digital and interactive media industry. For more information visit the Tour site!

Together with our students, Hyper Island staff has toured cities all over the world in order to meet up with creative, curious and business-minded people that are interested in becoming Hyper Island Diploma Program students for the fall 2010.

Click here to get to the nominations page.

Daniele Fiandanca on Hyper Island

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 Recruitment Tour is back in Stockholm

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

Turning great ideas into wine

We heard it through the grapevine...
As a respons to the Digital Media student's Help us grow campaign the Argentinian wine producer Finca Flichman are letting the students produce a promo and a campaign site for the Gestos Cabernet Sauvignon och Finca Flichman Shiraz wines.

Read more (in Swedish)

Intriguing post

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