Cannes Lions

Our production for Forsman & Bodenfors (www.fb.se) made it to the Cyber Shortlist in Cannes Lions this week. Now we are crossing our fingers for it to make it one step further.

Check it out: http://www.fb.se
Cannes Lions Cyber Shortlist: http://work.canneslions.com/cyber/

Fifth & Seventh place in this months Resume

This months Resume contest for web gave us a 5th place for Grin Widget "Skynet Take Over" Widget and a 7th place for Ving "Mallorca" website.
We are of course very happy about that =)

The Grin widget was made together with Åkestam Holst
See it here.

Ving Mallorca website was made together with F&B
See the website here.

Bronze awarded in One Show

Last weekend the One Show Interactive awards ceremony took place. Forsman & Bodenfors website was awarded a bronze pen. We are very happy to see our work being recognized and we also want to congratulate F&B that took three more bronze awards for AMF "MMS", Wasabröd "Sandwich" and IKEA "Come into the closet. Let's dance".

Check out the F&B website here »

New site for Forsman & Bodenfors!

Forsman & Bodenfors new website is released.
The site is built with the intention to give the visitors quick and easy access to the whole F&B portfolio. To get easy access, the whole site is built around a visual search engine that gives instant feedback (autocomplete with images) when searching. Enjoy watching F&B's work in the gallery with easy navigation with arrow keys or navigate traditionally with your mouse. There is also lots of amusing facts and statistics about the site, most frequent searched words, who is the most contacted person etc.

Visit the site here: www.fb.se

BRIO campaignsite released

Last week the brand new stroller "Brio GO" was released. It is an easy to carry stroller that folds together especially designed for parents "on the go".






Check it out: www.brio.se

"EM-Bevakaren" took a 6th place

In Resume's monthly web awards our production "EM-bevakaren" got some recognition. 6th place is really good considering the competition. "EM-Bevakaren" is a pretty simpla application specially designed for the european fotball championship. The application showed live odds, results, video clips and standings in the championship so people could follow everything at work. With a click på the space bar the application masked itself as a quarterly financial report so no one coming close could find out you were more interested in football than your work ;)

Cyber Silver Lion in Cannes

We were among the winners last week in Cannes getting a Silver Cyber Lion in Cannes.

Check it out at canneslions.com »
Visit the site »

Everybody needs a Smile(y)

It has been up and running for a couple of weeks now - the Smiley Factory at Windows Live that is. The website is a small generator that creates smileys to be used in Windows Live Messenger. Its a pretty cool idea and we are happy to see it being used.

There was some trouble reported with the installer on some machines running Vista so if you try it and experiences something unusual just take a screen shot, write down some words on your configuration(s) you think might help and we'll try to duplicate it and fix it. Email thoughts and bugs to support [at] thomson.nu

Design/Advertising agency: Joy
Techniques: Flash AS3, C#, C++ and lots of image mathematics ;)

Check it out: www.windowslive.se/smileyfabriken/ (swedish only)

Flash 9 dirty dirty smuts and some good stuff coming too...

Flash 9 / AS3 has some issues regarding unloading content that one of our developers pointed out this week. GSkinner writes about it and explains more on the issue.
The impact for us is crucial since almost everything we produce uses loaded content with contained functionality.

Check out GSkinners post "Failure to Unload" here

Next generation flash... Diesel
There are som really interesting news with rendering in 3D , kinematics and other advanced features but what hits us most is the new format for the source - XFL. The flash format specification has never been public but with this new xml formatted source the future opens up. This means that anyone could create a flash authoring tool in javascript or any other language for that matter. Adobe Air anyone? Flash As A Service? Possibilities are endless if only a XFL compiler is available *crossing my fingers and hoping for this to happen*.

Firefox & wmode=transparent bug

I think it was around 2005 we saw this the first time but it seems this odd behaviour is still out there. If you're running Firefox on Windows with a flash embedded with wmode="transparent" any input text fields may not work as expected with all keyboard layouts. Eg. if we want to write "@" with our swedish keyboard we only get a "2". Lots of other characters also seems to not be working correctly. Really weird but lots of people have been blogging about it so it looks like it's a well known bug.

Komatsu Forest web site released

The brand new web site for Komatsu Forest is launched. The site contains lots of new features and is totally redesigned. The production was a successful collaboration between a good mix of companys where everyone brought in their knowledge to create the best result.
Post-launch there are some more implementations to be done and launches of the site in different languages are also in the pipeline.

Screenshot of old site:


Screenshot after redesign:


Advertising agency: T/R
Creative/Flash: Thomson Interactive Media
Html/CSS/Javascript: Artopod
Implementation in Content Studio CMS: Sogeti (Umea)

Check out the site here: www.komatsuforest.com

One more award...

I've just come back from a three week trip in asia to discover some good news. Our production "Sveriges skönaste dialekt" snuck in on an honorable 2nd place at Resumés monthly webbawards. I'm happy that a short campaign like this got noticed...

Check it out here »

SOTD

Today we got "Site Of The Day" Award for "IKEA - You need a quiet space."

Check it out on thewfwa.com

"Sveriges skönaste dialekt!" released...

Together with F&B we hace released the competition where everyone can join in and make sure the coolest dialect in sweden. Our country is very long and the dialect differs a lot between the south, middle and north areas... not to mention the obscure dialects of some parts up in the mountains =)


The site - a screenshot


Recording interface - a flash media server is used for the recording.

Check it out at: http://sr.se/p4morgon (swedish only)

Award!

Again we are proud to see another production awarded. Last month we took first place in resume "Web of the month" with "Ving Travel Alert" and this time...

First place for "IKEA Calm bedrooms"!

Hey, we did not think we could do it two months running but we are glad to see our hard work made it happen.

Check out the article on Resume here.
Check out the site here

The Beauty and the Beard

Found this one, really nice idea and concept.
Enjoy!
http://www.ffk-wilkinson.com/