Incredible Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds On The Internet

Including: 

• 695,000 Facebook status updates;
• 694,445 Google Search queries;
• 600+ videos uploaded to YouTube;
• 81 iPad’s being sold. 

Quite incredible, but maybe not surprising. Makes you imagine what the numbers and subjects will be at the end of 2012..

(via Business Insider.)

Last Group Feedback Session @Hyper Island

Yesterday our group from the Bukowskis project held it’s last process follow up/ feedback session at Hyper Island. It’s our last official group project here, so it felt kinda special. We discussed and shared our opinions on the project, and then ended with some feedback, of course! The feedback I got was very important and I felt the group really knows me, the good and the bad, so I was very thankful for their post-it ‘gifts’. Now I will try to improve in the things my team mates wrote to ‘Stop’ doing :) 

Here is a snapshot of the feedback post-its I received. Post-its from me-to-me, Malin, Richard and Fia. 

A Busy Week @Hyper Island

It’s Friday of week 5 of 7 during the Final Project module at Hyper Island, the last project where we are working in official groups at school before we go off on internship. This was a busy week, where we had mid-presentations for our class DM12 where some co-workers were present too - Bella Funck & Thomas Bjork - to give us feedback on our concepts and progress so far. This was a great session and one of the best things Hyper support us with: a chance to get real feedback DURING our process, enabling us to look at our project with different eyes and improve it before final delivery. This session certainly gave our group very valuable insights on what we presented for our client Bukowskis. 

Above our view from ‘stage’ presenting to the audience, and below photo of Malin & Fia during our presentation.

Today, there was an interesting panel debate going in Studio 1 of Hyper Island. It revolved around the question of ‘Are client briefs dead?’ debating the topic of briefs from different industry perspectives. It was comprised of (from the left)  :Patrik Falk, from Made by Many Stockholm; Mattias Wallin, CEO/Account Director @SpinnStockholm; Isaac Pinnock, Interaction Designer @Made by Many London and Tony Högqvist, creative director @Perfect Fools Stockholm. It was great to hear professionals’ insights on what Creative Briefs and Client Briefs mean, and what an agency should strive to do for a client, regardless of what they think they need and ask for. Some of the luxuries of being at Hyper Island are these events with great people from the industry that we get to interact with, for free, and just around the corner from our working desks :) 

Minutes before the panel debate begins. 

Panel debate in action. 

- So bring on week 6, that will be filled with even more exciting work, and will start with a team breakfast at 9am on Monday morning !

Introducing Aer Studio - an interview 

Interview I did during my work shadowing at Aer Studio, in Barcelona with José, Héctor & Daniel, 3 of the 5 members of the company. This was a chance to ask some further questions I had before and during my time shadowing the developers Héctor & Daniel.

Aer Studio an interaction studio in Barcelona developing concepts and interaction for digital interfaces ushered by the idea that interaction between humans and computers should aspire to achieve seamlessness. They work with clients such as Sonár Festival & collaborations with Frog Design.

They are a small studio who stays true to their long established values of having a family like feeling, and creating high quality projects based on advanced techniques through research in the area they choose to explore. 

Some of the team members have started their own school in Barcelona, similar to Hyper Island where they teach interaction / multimedia design. 

And find the other two members of Aer Studio, who were not able to be present for the interview here: Cristóbal & Nikoline.

Follow Aer Studio here: www.aerstudio.com & @aerstudio. 

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Work shadowing was a compulsory part of Specialization 1 module, where I picked Technology. This was the part of the module I learnt the most, and one of my favorite parts at Hyper Island so far, where you get a great insight into how a company of your chosen specialization functions.

Ever thought how the weather around major cities in the world, could be turned into an infographic? Well, Bård Edlund, born and raised in Oslo, Norway, created just that: The Weather Wheel.

The Weather Wheel  is based on widely available weather data, including wind, precipitation, and temperature, and is displayed in an alternating wheel , by each month of the year.

Bård is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in New York City. His design work has been featured on the sites of Entertainment Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, Jezebel, Gawker, Fast Company, FlowingData and many more. 

While at Aer Studio these last days I’ve been introduced to many data visualization sites and communities, that they collaborate very often with. Data visualization can be stunning, as well as useful and powerful. Also very interesting to build, and I hope to be able to know enough programming to create something like this.

Check Bårds’ website out : http://www.edlundart.com/ and also Co.Design, where they display one amazing infographic a day.

Enjoy !