Björn Blomquist at Hyper Island

May 13, 2008

Design and concept

Hi my friends!

I know it's been a long times since my last post, but I promise, I havn't forgot about you. The last couple of weeks have been very hasty and I havn't had a single minute to just sit down and tell about it.

I've been working on a 5 week long specialization about design and concept together with two other students here at Hyper Island. Working with sharp cases and real clients giving us a more then fair challange.

We choose to go extremley analog in the first phase of this project, since we wanted to brand our client as an "hand made" and "uniqe" company. Why? The reason for this is pretty simple. The company design one pice collections, making stage clothes for artists and other people with colorful personalities. So what makes them uniqe is that they handpaint each piece, so no piece looks like another.

Anyways, to get the handmade feeling that we were after, we started of by breaking the school budget and purchasing material for many hundred swedish crowns. mostly clay, but also other material that you need to build a physical model.

Now the company name is Rosegarden, so ofcorse, we wanted to create rosegarden.. the bright and romantic side of rock'n roll.

Our way to success..





















































As you can see, we had quite a lot to do, but I'll also tell you this.. We all agreed that this was one of the most fun projects any of us had ever done.

Our client was very happy with us so we are now working on completing everything,

Click here to view the current result

April 6, 2008

An interesting spring

Hi all!

I'm sorry, I know that it has been weeks isnce my last post here, but alot has happend since then so I've realy not have any time for bloging.

Anyways, we had deadline for our latest project last week. The Project Lifecycle, our first project where we i groups of 3-4 persons worked on sharp cases. My group worked for the swedish RedCross youth association, and their focus this year, Sex-hiv.

The mission was to creat a campaignish site that they could use as a portal and inform people about the risk of getting HIV when you're having sex. Our pretty early decieded that we didn't want to do as everyone else, and use some scare tactic, like showing some horrible pictures and telling people that they can die, cause they already heard that a thousand times before.. so we chose to inform in a fun 80:ish way instead. My part in this project was from start to be a designer, but ended up a front-end coder, so I had pretty much nothing to do with the design, on the other hand, if the css don't work, I'm the one to blaim for that :)

I'm just gonna post a few pictures of the project here, for a full case studie and url, check out my portfolio at www.bjornblomquist.com, cause I will upload it there as soon as I'm done moving (that's right, thats one of the reasons why I havn't been written in a wile.. anyways, here are the pictures.. peace!



March 12, 2008

Pretty much just a show-off from some listings

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anotherbookmark.com













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designcharts.com

March 8, 2008

Pushing against a WDA victory

At this very momet, our promotion site dm09stockholm is at the top of Website Design Awards listing contest against staying on top for as long as posible for best design and progressiv flash site :) that's realy cool..

place your vote at the WDA site

and some proof! :)
































We were also featured at FWA about a week ago.. the payment is sent so we are now waiting and hoping that we will be nominated for "site of the day" award and listed at their gallery.

March 2, 2008

New Portfolio Layout

It's my first flash site ever.. so it's not uber technical.. but it's up, it's alive and it's working :)

www.bjornblomquist.com