Silver Lion Award for fb.se

Happy news arrived this morning!
The site for Forsman & Bodenfors (www.fb.se) was awarded a Silver Lion in the Cannes Lions Festival.
Congratulations to all winners!
http://work.canneslions.com/cyber/

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/

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 »

Golden egg awards is over for this year

I bet there are lots of people in the media business in sweden that have headaches this morning. The party last night was going on until early this morning =)

We got a diploma for our nominated production "Sveriges skönaste dialekt" and partly also a silver egg. The campaign "Born to be cheap" for Tele2 got a silver and we helped out creating all online campaign banners... approx. one thousand of those were made.

Congratulations to all winners, it was really fun to watch on livestream (bambuser)

Nominated in Guldägget

Today we found out that one of our website productions is nominated in the swedish commercial contest Guldägget (Golden Egg). The production was made last year for Swedish Radio called "Sveriges skönaste dialekt". You can read more about Guldägget here and read some more about the 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

CEO in contest

Our CEO Stefan is participating in Nokias 48h mission. We all want you to vote for him and his friend beginning tomorrow and ending sunday 21st at midnight. Check out his blog if you read swedish. Check out www.nokia.se/48h and cast your vote for Stefan & Eric!
(Voting activates sometime during wednesday 17th)

"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)

New header image

Just noticed that Andreas wired TIM logotype is on top of our blog. He made it in 3D a while ago between some project and we are thinking about making a real version eventually, would be a nice project for the friday evening beers =)

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 »

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!

We whish you all the best during christmas and new years eve. We have been very busy this autumn and have done lots of work that we never seem to get around publishing here or on our corporate website. Time just is'nt on our side when it comes to maintain our own sites =)

Lately we have been up to...
A campaign site for Systembolaget (Swedish Alcohol Retail Monopoly)
An intro & banner campaing for Sunwing (Ving Travel)
A campaign site for AMF (Pension funding company, to be released early jan. 08)
Some more cool stuff for Swedish Radio (to be published mid jan. 08)

There has been a couple of other projects going on also but most of them are not to be launched until late january so we cannot go into details on them.

We also recruited two more talented programmers. We welcome Nicklas and Mathias who will be working on some application development in C# and PHP. These guys are amazing!

The crew here at TiM are all looking forward to a great 2008 and whish you all the very best!

STHLM HIO

All members of the TiM crew was spending some time in Stockholm last weekend. We set our goals high to have a bit of fun and some work as well. We payed a visit to our friends at F&B and we had a great evening =)
We also made a decision to get find more talented people who wants to work with us so if you are great at what you do and want to create something with us, don't hesitate to contact us. (info at thomson dot nu)

Also - congrats to Eric who made his eight hole in one (discgolf) on Järva despite windy conditions!!

Some things we appreciated on our trip...
Ljunggrens - great food and a sweet music trip (Götgatan 38, Söder, Stockholm)
F&B - great people!
Järva - a good discgolf park
Clarion Hotel - Very nice and pretty cheap too

Also thanx to the local law enforcement (polisen) for not having any speed traps during our highway "Smokey & the Bandit" trip.

Tim goes Wakeboarding

A few of us got together and packed our wakeboards and went out for a couple of hours enjoying ourselves with fun in the water. Kim, Helena and Stefan are beginners and David is quite the semi-pro (if you ask one of the beginners anyways =)
Have a few shots from the evening below, enjoy...


Jumping the wave...


David airborn...


Stefan riding in the sunset.

TiM Round the Bay Race

Taste the wind, the water and the spirit of our crew on an evening sailing in two smaller ships. Having only mild and gusty wind it was a nice evening inspite the low temperature. The crew was divided into two teams. One that was against all odds (not on the CEO team that is) in a red boat and the other team in a green one.

It all started out well with the green boat towing the other since they had no motor on that one.

Well outside the port we set sail and after some tutorials on how to handle the sails we did some manouvering and then we had a few races between two fishnet flags and a portside mark which we rounded. One team wanted to say they won, and well, lets face it... With a dragging propeller on the aft the green boat did not stand a chance in the light winds.

Some pictures are attached and we hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed this wonderful evening in the northern archipelagos of Skellefteå.


Stefan acting as captain... Avast Ye! All hands hoay!


Side by side running the last leg


How come the "winning team" always is 2nd on all photos? Just a thought...


Shiver me timbers! Captain Davy!!


All hope abandon, ye who meets this lad on sea!

Mammon crushed

Mammon challenged us at bowling.
None of us have been practicing that for quite a while but why not try it we thought.
You should also need to know that Mammon has their office very close to the bowling center and they practically live there on their spare time.

Who won? We did ofcourse =)


Mammon: Chris, Lars, Mike & Olov


TiM: David, Eric, Kim & Stefan