Spot Your Friends - Spotify Platform Application

Tired of your music? Get a Spotify playlist with the tracks your Facebook friends play and enjoy.

The introduction says it all. When you're out of luck for new music you should give this application a go.

By utilizing the Facebook Graph API the Spot Your Friends app searches through your friends' feeds and finds what music they've been listening to, sorts it descending in time and by popularity and presents you with one hundred fresh songs in a generated Spotify playlist. Sexy? Sexy!

Spot Your Friends also features an all-time-high toplist for the most played tracks - for all users of the application (which you, of course, also can get as a playlist). The community can't be wrong, right?

We conceptualized, designed and built this application for the new Spotify Application platform and it will soon be available through the App Finder in your Spotify desktop application (submitted December 9th 2011).

Vattenfall - King of the Slope

Energy for winter sports. Now in your mobile and on the web.

Vattenfall is an official sponsor of the International Ski Federation and now we're taking their passion for skiing to the next level with an app and an online community that makes your skiing more social.

The application has three major touch points; tracking your runs, challenging your friends and of course competing to be the King of the Slope.

We were hired to take this all one step further by working alongside the application development, designing and building an online comparison platform, somewhat similar to the well-known and liked Nike+ and RunKeeper.

By using Facebook Connect and setting up an account the online platform gives you the ability to share and compare (utilizing statistics, icons and graphs) your runs with a wide audience - everyone from your Facebook friends, to other users in your area. Or why not compare your last runs with those of famous skier Jon Olsson?

The platform also features such things as an interactive map for adding new ski-spots, top lists and ranking, reading more about the application and fetching a widget to embed on your site or blog visualizing how of an awesome skier you are.

Photographer Mathias Sterner

A photographer's portfolio with impact.

Our dear bearded friend Mathias takes awesome pictures. Like, seriously awesome. But he's no web-guy. At all. So, how can you resist helping an old friend when you get to work with beautiful material? We can't.

This is a photographers portfolio of 2011 - fullscreen images, smart and polite loading, keyboard navigation for the desktop, swipe-/touch-navigation for iOS and tons of stunning work.

We designed and crafted this with one mantra - to make a really arty production. And we think we succeeded.

Experiment - Online webcam-controlled RC-car

Ever wanted to control an rc-car over the internet? Well, of course you have!

By mixing and combining a lot of great technologies we built this rc-car which you remotly can control over the world-wide-web. Okey, let's get a bit techy on you now.

The foundation is a classic rc-car (Ferrari of course) with digital steering and speed that we got from our local toy-dealer. We re-built the controller to not accept steering and speed-commands from the levers, but from an interface-board attached to the controller. The interface board is then, through USB, connected to our server. On the server we run a controller-application we built using Ruby and libraries like Ruby FFI and LibUSB. On top of this we have a Ruby Sinatra application and API for controlling the actual car. So, now we got a car that we can remotly control over the internet by sending requests to our just built GET-API.

But why stop there? How about visuals? I don't know about you, but we find it quite hard to steer a car without eye-sight. With that said, we had to integrate a webcam. Biggest challenge - latency! How do we avoid having the webcam streaming pictures too late, causing us to steer in the wrong moment? Well, first we mounted a classic chatroulette-type-of-guy-webcam to the car, attaching it to a wireless-usb-hub and then having the server receive the images and broadcasting it to our Ruby application. Massive fail! It was like drunk-driving - totally out of control.

We had another brainstorming session and ended up with attaching an Android-phone (HTC Desire) to the car. The phone run an application which broadcasts an image-stream to our local 5GHz wifi-network. This is then picked up by our Sinatra application which displays the stream as well as let you talk to car by the API.

Now we've got an rc-car, controlled - steering and speed - over the internet, with images delivered almost in real-time. Pretty sweet. But let's push it a bit more, shall we? Why not make the steering a bit more intuitive? Yep. If you access the Sinatra application from your iPhone or iPad you got a whole other experience - fullscreen image-stream as on the desktop, but the car is controlled by tilting your phone forward/backward/left/right.

To sum it all up - as of today I can sit at home in my sofa and steer an rc-car in our office with an high-quality image-stream just by tilting my iPhone in different directions.

Awesome, techy and exciting. But meaningless.

But fun.

Experiment - Office RFID Facebook check-ins

How about automatically checking in to Facebook Places as you enter the office or your home? Now you can.

When Facebook Places was released, the hype was massive. As to be expected. We wanted to take the regular check-in-process a bit further by making it a permanent feature in the studio.

All staff was equipped with an RFID-card (pretty much like a credit-card, but without loads of cash in it) to put in their wallets. These cards all have unique ids, by which they can be recognized. We then mounted an USB RFID-reader with good range in the entrance to our space. To control things a small Ruby application was made, which registers so called connections to the RFID-reader (built using libraries like Ruby FFI and LibUSB). This means, that every day we could see when people came and left. Like a modern version of the old industrial clocking-in-card type-of-thing. Pretty scary stuff!

Well, that wasn't really the purpose. With the coming and leaving part up and running we developed the application further. We created a Facebook Application and had all people in the studio grant it "offline-access", meaning that the application at any time is allowed to make a post to the users stream. With that in place it was just for us to keep track of the connections in the database and broadcast different messages to Facebook at different times.

So, when arriving to the studio in the morning, I just walk in to my desk and I'm automatically checked-in to Facebook Places and the Yours office, by a post in my feed. Sweet.

But how can we take it to the next level? Well, why not have us all choose a track from Spotify and have it queued to our office-playlist (broadcasting through AirTunes/AirFoil) when entering the office? Ok, done, by using our LibSpotify C-API we built before. But that's another project. And story.

The best cure for a cold monday morning? Walking in the studio, automatically getting checked-in to Facebook Places, making a coffee and your all-time favorite song (like this one) starts playing. Just nice.

AMF Framtidsresan

Who do you want to bring to the future holiday of your dreams?

The campaign is challenging people to think about what their dream holiday would look like. Who would you bring? Where would you go? When would you leave?

By doing this we wanted to create a magnificent and delightful mental-picture of how it is to be a senior citizen - and by setting that state of mind we wished for people to be more engaged in their coming retirement and the elated savings plans.

Built as a Facebook Application for easy access to your dear ones, the application lets you concretize your dreams - invite the friend you want to go with, choose a destination and a year by spinning the globe, and last by not least upload a picture of you and your friend to see how you will look when you're taking off on the holiday of your dreams.

The result is a postcard of you and your friend - aged and wrinkled - on the travel destination of your dreams. Of course you have the ability to share your postcard with your subscribers. And to download it.

B-Reel took care of the visual design. We made it all happen by handling all parts of the technical production (including the 3D-globe, built with drawTriangles).

Samsung Smart TV

Digital part of mixed-media campaign promoting the new Samsung Smart TV and it's awesome features.

Electronics giant Samsung is launching their new TV:s equipped with tons of goodies - under the banner Smart TV.

These TV:s let you watch web-tv, play-channels and YouTube directly in the TV. Furthermore, since the TV is wireslessly connected to the internet, you can rent movies, downloas apps, update your Facebook status and a lot more. Directly in your TV. No boxes. No computers. Pretty sweet, right?

To kick it all off and to serve as a landing platform (for traffic from ads and tvc:s) we built an informational hub - showcasing the many features of the new Smart TV.

Adecco Hamilton Movie Extras

Ever wanted to star in a real cinema picture? Yes. Ever wanted to hang out with Micke Persbrandt? Hell yes!

Based upon Jan Guillous ridicilously popular books about intelligence officer Carl Hamilton, comes three new screen adaptions during 2011 - 2012.

Now you have the chance to work alongside Michael Persbrandt and star as an extra in the third of these movies!

You apply by snapping a photo with your webcam - or uploading a photo of yourself - and choosing which type of character you want to impersonate - "evil woman getting blowed up", "tanned guy in military shorts", "knife-throwing-ninja-dude", "cocky and armed girl", "snake-charmer" or the "queuing woman with veil".

Your uploaded image gets mounted in a corresponding character figure and just like that you're ready to send in your application. And use your new bad-ass profile picture, yes?

SWE pushed the pixels and we wrote the ones and zeroes.

Goliath Attention To Detail

The Attention To Detail campaign is an expression for the love of craftsmanship, the appreciation of things well done and Goliath's support for the off-beat, the experimental and the new.

The campaign is highlighting three communities - The Mesh Print Club, screen printers extraordinaire from Rotterdam, the Dalston FARM:shop, the London-based urban farming visionaries and Drop Coffee, genius baristas from Stockholm. The line of argument? People who also share Goliath's simple belief that everything they do should be done to the best of their abilities.

This immersive experience is a mash-up of story-driven video, shorter video-clips and interviews, propagated content from social media and lots of photographs.

Even-though the main experience uses the full power of Flash (deep-linking, 3D-transitions, video, music etc), of course we've built a custom (and awesome!) iOS-version for all you Apple-heads out there.

So, get over there now - watch, learn and be inspired!

Com Hem Tv-modul

Com Hem is launching their tv-module. No more boxes, just insert the module into your tv and you're ready to go.

As a part of the big launch campaign we crafted (design and development) a digital hub for information and ordering - with the purpose of making it easier for new, and existing, customers to wrap their head around this new service.

The site includes features such as investigating if Com Hem is your service provider by searching for your house on Google Maps Street View (of course with the help of Judit and Judit), the ability to see if your tv supports the new module and numerous order forms.

To make the content easy accessible and to spice things up this is a cross-platform-cross-device-one-page-immersive-parallax-scrolling-experience (yes, it renders nicely on your iPad).

So, get your fingers warmed up and ready to scroll away! And don't forget to scroll all the way down - the best things are always saved to last, right?

GANT Underwear

A new classic is born.
Introducing GANT Underwear.

As GANT now is launching an extensive line of underwear, we produced a campaign introducing the new sub-brand - GANT Underwear - to a wider audience.

With brand-immersive images and sounds the mood and tonality for the brand is shown off in this rich experience.

Experience the birth of a new GANT classic.

Telia Musiksätt Sverige

Do you want to take part in writing a new chapter of music history? It's time to tag all of Sweden with your favorite tunes!

As of today Telia are joining in on the ever growing online movement of tagging content and checking-in through GPS.

Musiksätt Sverige is an online service allowing Swedish users to tag their favorite places with their most awesome songs - this is done either via the map on the site, or the GEO-location function in your cell-phone. Or why not via the map in the iPad-version?

Not feeling someone's tune? Why not go ahead and challenge the place? Don't forget to get all your friends to vote your new awesome track straight to the top.

Huge mash-up site connecting to some of the most exciting API:s out there - a result of combining Facebook Places, the Spotify API (libspotify as well as the Metadata API), the map-service from Eniro, geo-coding from Yahoo and a million lines of code.

With the collected data we're able to automatically generate Spotify playlists based on a number of parameters ranging from location to artist, track, album and so on. Super-rad!

Telenor Banner Invitational

Telenor - one of the largest telecom operators - has a huge involvement in the golfing scene. To kick off the Nordea Masters tournament we built this five course golfing game.

You start out on the Telenor homepage where you tee-up and take your first swing. Next, you get redirected to play the second hole on DN.se. Playing this game will take you to four major Swedish sites - E24.se, DI.se, DN.se, Golf.se - before taking you back to the Telenor homepage where you play the final hole, where you really should expect the unexpected when the whole site starts falling apart when you hit certain elements.

After finishing all five courses you register to get into the scoreboard and have the chance of winning great prizes.

Com Hem TV-profileraren

What is your true tv-personality? Let Judit & Judit analyze your personality, give you a profile and suggest what tv-channels that are right for you.

By digging through everything that can be accessed at Facebook - from your status updates and comments, to the things you like, your interests, events involving you, pictures you appear in and so on - the dynamic duo will scientifically tell you what you need.

It turns out more or less the whole studio ended up being profiled as "Festar Fredde" (something like "Party Patric"). Well...

For agency King and tv-gigant Com Hem we designed and built this profiler viral.

Skarp Agent

Skarp Agent is representing the top range of Swedish photographers covering the domains of fashion, beauty and lifestyle, still life, portraiture, food and interiors.

With that said, Skarp's got loads and loads of super-rad footage - both stills and moving imagery. Together with Garbergs we gave them a dynamic and living platform to show off some of their goodies.

Constantly growing - with the addition of more work and new artists - this is an ever evolving site.

Garbergs pushed the pixels and we provided some programming magic.

Fisherman's Friend Adventure

We wanted to put the theory of six degrees of separation to the test, once and for all. This is how we did it.

The adventure starts on a random Facebook profile, anywhere in the world. By jumping to another friendship-linked profile, and another after that, your aim is to travel across the seven digital seas of Facebook, in pursuit of one of your own friends.

One lucky winner got a trip for two, exactly like the one they took in the game.

The production - a true example of how pushing the limits of the Facebook API combined with some bot-scripting and scraping can create magic.

Average gaming time ended up being 31 minutes and 27 seconds. During the longest game Anna visited 178 profiles in 89 countries during 28 hours. Not bad having someone spend a day playing around with your brand?!

Ving True Love

Have you ever wondered who your true love is? Stupid question, we know!

Good news is: now you can find out, and then take that special someone on a romantic vacation with Ving!

The production - via Facebook Connect, the "True Love" application scans through your tagged photos in search of your soulmate. The result is presented in a deliberately tacky, albeit cozy, slide show, accompanied by the tones of Swedish sleeze bag Tommy Nilsson.

Experiment - HTML5 Multiuser
Sound Sequencer

In the middle of the raging HTML5 vs Flash debate we decided to make a coctail out of fresh digital technologies.

The result? A multi-user-collaborative-sound-sequencer-and-messaging-application. Built with HTML5 (canvas), CSS3, Tonfall, NodeJS and Socket.io.

Each colorful grid-item represents a tone generated by Tonfall. All visitors on the site is represented by a small movable dot, making this site a living multi-user-sound-sequencer. Of course you can also send messages to other visitors or just sit back and be taunted by the Yours-bot.

Not really feeling the groove? Try typing ‘@Yours i love top gun’ or ‘@Yours mario is my brother’ to trigger some easter-eggish fun across all connected users.

Posten Glädjespridaren

Fewer and fewer actual letters are being sent. Let's change that.

These days, when so much communication can be done electronically, people are sending fewer and fewer actual letters to each other. Still, it is nice to find something other than bills and ad leaflets in the mailbox every now and then.

That’s why Glädjespridaren (Joy-O-Gram) exists - to spur imagination and offer hands-on tips on what you can send to make someone you know really happy.

The production - a cute, simple and user-friendly micro site. The implemented theme function makes it agile and easy to pimp up for different holidays such as Christmas, Easter and so on.

Greenpeace Ställ om Sverige

Choose your weapon and get ready to give that nuclear guy a real beating!

An interactive mini campaign against nuclear power, produced for conferences and live events, such as the Peace and Love Festival. Choose your character - solar, wind or water - and give the evil nuclear boss a good beating!

The production - the Flash-animated site uses a web cam to register the player’s movements via motion capture. Every sudden move in the direction of the camera becomes a pulverizing punch right in the villain’s face.

Ikea Sovrumsnyheter

It's here! What you may ask? The new bedroom assortment of Ikea of course.

As part of a huge omni-media campaign, the aim was to spur inspiration and buying spirit for the release of Ikea's 2010 bedroom assortment.

The production - an inspiring flash site with three different rooms and styles. Deep-linking every product made it easy for everyone to share their personal favorites, as well as clicking through for an instant purchase at ikea.se.

Experiment - Multiuser iPad Pong

Care for a game of Pong? Well, then you have to master this multi device Pong.

Warning - this is strictly for the true fanboys!

Having three Apple iOS-devices laying around? Well, then you can master the arts of our multi-user-multi-device pong - two iPhones as controllers, one iPad as the field.

Built using HTML5 canvas, CSS3, websockets and NodeJS. Awesome!

Swing by our office for a challenge.

Telenor Jul

Christmas is here! Let Telenor help you with the gifts this season.

Swedish telecom gigant Telenor wanted to showcase a selection of products for the shopping-intense Christmas season.

The solution ended up being a wintery gift inspiration and product showcase campaign. Light on the content side, heavy on the visual.

BASF iPad Application

Re-creating a Flash-interface in iOS for deployment in the Appstore? We did it.

Global chemical brand BASF wanted people to be able to see their Flash-site on the iPad. We built an iPad application (iOS) that is more or less a mirror of their existing energy-saving website.

Cancerfonden Fulhetskontraktet

Since growing a mustache is pretty hard (and not too popular) for most women, we needed to find another way to include them in the battle amongst cancer.

"The mustache battle" is a non-profit campaign with the sole purpose of raising awareness of prostate cancer. Simple grow a mustache to show you care. Since growing a mustache is pretty hard (and not too popular) for most women, we needed to find another way to include them in the battle. We made a contract to help them support their partners in the struggle.

The production - the user got to customize a contract for her partner, promising him certain rewards for growing a hearty mustache. Facebook Connect made it possible to access and mustachify his tagged pictures, to visualize the conditions of contract fulfilment. Ultimately, it all resulted in a printable, physical treaty ready for signing.

Lufthansa Relationsresan

We're sure you've got tons of great friends on Facebook - but how well do you actually know each other?

We mean, like really know each other? Who do you know? And who knows you the best? Would you be able to take a trip together - and how far would you come?

With Relationsresan you can put your relationships to the test. And the best - it's on safe grounds.

In the first month, with no media budget what so ever, over 129 000 people tried out Relationsresan.

Take A Break

All stressed up by work or school or just plain bored? Take a break!

Choose the length of your break, lean back and let Take-a-Br take care of the rest.

The production - the simple, visual site automatically generates and imports an adequately long playlist with popular YouTube clips, for you to watch instantly in your browser.

Apollo Visning pågår

How to make people crave for a luxurious all-inclusive vacation with Apollo?

But of course, invite them for a viewing and let the resorts speak for themselves!

The production - a total of 30 hotels in Thailand, Egypt and on the Canarie Islands are presented in a traditional apartment-viewing manner, all the way from copy to photos and overall layout.

Fritidsresor Dagarna du minns

What will you remember from last year? Let Fritidsresor help you remember, what you should remember.

We helped our friends over at Daytona creating an online solution for the concept "Dagarna du minns" (The days you remember) as a part of a bigger transmedia campaign.

The solution came to be a Facebook application that collects your status updates over the past year - helping you remember, oh well, the days you should remember.

Launched through-out the nordic countries - Sweden, Norway, Denmark & Finland.

Eventum

Eventum re-launched their organization. We re-launched their online presence.

While renowned communications and event agency Eventum are finishing off a fantastic year we built them a new dynamic and living home on the world wide web (yes, internet).

Focusing on what’s important - the produced events - imagery and videos play a central role in this intriguing showcase.

Tre X10

The objective was to boost the launch of the new Sony Ericsson phone model X10.

The prodution - a visual micro site, showing off all the neat functions of the phone in 3D. The site also collects and presents opinions and reviews on the phone from different social media, all in real-time.