This was from the start a school project here at Hyper Island. But since we are not allowed to develop a complete website me and Henrik Porseland decided to do this as a freelance work.
Stena Line is one of the world’s largest ferry operators, with ferry services serving Scotland, Sweden, Northern Ireland, Denmark, Norway, England, Wales Ireland, Germany, Netherlands and Poland. This website is made for StenaLine to promote the new boat between Karlskrona, Sweden and Gdynia, Poland.

It’s mainly a flash website, but to celebrate this new boat with StenaLine we built a confetti machine. The user can go to the website and blow in her or his microphone and confetti will be spred out at the terminal in Karlskrona. You can also see a live stream of  the celebration. To be able to celebrate we use facebook connect, but it’s also possible to use your email.

How does this work? When the user blows into the microphone a signal sents to the computer at the terminal. When it receives a signal it triggers a Phidget motor which releases the confetti from a tank. Here is some more screenshots from the site. Hope you like it.

Here is the link: http://ledighetdeluxe.se/#/en/

Credits: Alexander Gårdenberg, Ida Ragnarsson, Pawel Zwolinski, Henrik Porseland, Veronica Wallström, Alexander Rosén and of course the rest of DM11 Karlskrona.

I didn’t really kept my promise about keeping up the posting here. It feels great to be back in school and I’m filling out all the paperwork for the visa. I’m currently working on a cool project for a client and we are releasing the site in two weeks. I think it will be great! I also have some upcoming cool projects that I’m really excited about. Will post all of it here. And also some code samples that could be interesting for others.

In ten weeks I’m moving to New York with some of my best friends and also my girlfriend, we will be at different agencies and live the New York life I hope. We are all super excited. If you’re in New York in November give me a call!

Visit site: http://invite.whatisxv.com

For our class website we wanted to create a hype around it. We did secret sendouts to people in the digital industry with actual letters. It was a big secret and we wanted people to start talk about it. I wouldn’t say it was a huge success but people started talking.

In the third letter it was a link to our website and a password. When the user logged in with their personal password the logo of their company lighted up. You could also see other agencies that visited our site since their logo was lighted up.

My role
This was a part of the Marketing and promotion module so the whole class was idea developing. Me and a small group finalized then the idea. I was then one of the two developers of the site. Me and Henrik Porseland did all the Flash and I did all the back-end for it. John Karlsson and Alexander Gårdenberg was the designers for this site as well. This site was online for a month and the 15th of May we released our student directory with a great party at Sid Lee in Amsterdam.

Check out the invite site here

Visit Site: http://whatisxv.com

This is our student directory from my class at Hyper Island, Karlskrona. We did this site during the Marketing and promotion module and the purpose of it is to promote us as students and learn how to work with the whole group of 36 students.

What is XV?
XV means 15 in roman letters.

Three years ago Hyper Island went from the numbered crew concept to labeling classes with abbreviations, ordered by completion year and location. This ended a fine tradition. A tradition in which we would have been the 15th crew, instead of our current label DM11KNA, Digital Media 11 Karlskrona.
We felt that the crew tradition carried a great brand value and we wanted to rebrand the crew concept and salvage some of the value, so we created the secret Hyper Island Order and the 15th Chapter.

Process
This project was a huge one with 36 guys involved, many ideas and thoughts at the same time, do’s and dont’s & pros and cons.
The whole class become later divided in to different groups.

- Documentation
- Invite letters
- Invite video
- Finance
- Photo
- Web production

My role
My role in the XV project was developer.
I was involved in the whole idea development phase as well. Me and a small group of people finalized the idea of the website.
In production we were only four guys working on the website. The designers; Alexander Gårdenberg and John Karlsson and the developers, me and Henrik Porseland. We did it all in Flash first, but since all the hype around the iPad I decided to create a HTML/Javascript version of it as well. I was also responsible for the back-end of the site. I did a small CMS for the site and connected it to the flash and html version.

I’m happy with the final result and I learnt a lot during this module. A lot of AS3, Javascript and of course group dynamics.

Hope you enjoy the site!

Link to HTML version

Link to Flash version

For those of you who doesn’t know me. My name is Theo Stråhlén and I’m a student at Hyper Island in Karlskrona. I’m a developer in both Flash and HTML. So that’s what I will post here. Flash examples, javascript examples etc.

Hope you will enjoy my blog! And yeah, my domain is pretty bad. I had it since I was around 15 and I’m not a designer anymore.