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

Some releases

Wrapping up the last quarter of 2008, we really worked our butts of on a vast variety of web sites, design concepts and a truckload of banners. The bulk of the projects where in cooperation with a few of our business partners, but we also had a couple of outsiders and even a request from the local municipal office.

For starters, we produced the official site for renowned Swedish actor Stefan Sauk. The site is a presentation of the actor and his work and contains movie clips, a picture gallery, biography, interviews and more.
Visit the site here: www.sauk.se.



Lundin Fastighetsbyrå is a real estate agency based in Gothenburg. They wanted to renew their old site and we where happy to oblige.
The result can be viewed here: www.lundin.se.




Libero is one of the leading Swedish producers of diapers and other baby products such as baby oil, wet wipes etc. Along with one of our business partners, we produced a micro-site in flash for their latest product campaign.
View it here: www.libero.se.




One of our business partners (our next door neighbour actually) came to us with a request to produce web sites for a few of their customers (all local companies). They provided the design and we nailed down the construction and back end programming.
Check them out here: www.valutec.se, www.volantic.se, www.simmine.com, www.optronic.se.



Skellefteå Kommun (the local municipal office) web where in desperate need for a overhaulin', and we provided them with the design and layout for the new and improved site. Here you can check out some of the sketches:










Part of our daily routines consists of banner productions for one of our business partners. In November 2008 we set what propably is a world record for banners when the swedish tele-communication company Tele2 launched a massive campaign spanning all medias. Around 750 banners where produced during a 10 day span and the hosting bureau had never seen anything like it.



Oh, by the way ... we produced yet another banner campaign with additional landing sites for IKEA just in time for the christmas break.



All in all we just had a great 2008 and are already way deep in new exciting projects that will launch shortly.

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

Summer release

One of the largest record stores in sweden is Bengans. The store is located in gothenburg but recently expanded to open a new store in stockholm. Bengans has been online since the late 90's and has always maintained a low profile on the web but with great support, ordering and knowledge behind the scenes. Since june they have been running a new website/shop. Visitors seem to find music quitker and with better accuracy so sales has been going up...

Check it out at: www.bengans.se
(Swedish & english version)

IQ in new clothes

For some time we have been rebuilding and redesigning www.iq.se to fit their profile even better than before. A couple of days ago we launched their new interface silently. Looks better, feels better, acts better!

Related link: www.iq.se

Pop community released

After a well deserved summer vacation we are all back in our office now. During the vacation some of us took on a community website together with Forsman & Bodenfors. The young girls that each year goes to a Music camp in sweden can now stay in touch with each other after tha camp is over. There is still lots of stuff to add to the community but on its release today it seems that the kids enjoy it enough for now at least.

Read about the Music camp "Popkollo" at www.popkollo.se
Check out the community at www.popkollo.com
Read some articles from GP, Barometern & Musikwebben
(articles and website in swedish only)

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)

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