Graduate.
It feels great to finally graduate, even though I did it from another side of the earth. Huge thanks to Hyper Island for helping me out to reach my goals and wishes. DM10 people, Good luck with whatever you proceed to do, i'll see you later. Stay golden! Holla.
/Greg, NY
Hairy days.
Came across these old render tests I pulled together with a very talented designer and friend - Riccardo Tagliabue. Thought his logo in hair, looked kind of funny.
Past.
Some old renders from the first part of final projects at Hyper Island, September '09. The idea was to have that image as a full screen campaign site with some kind of interactivity inside of those stalker cams.
TO: Sean.
Hey, Mister Sean - Congratulations! Here is a little "summin","summin" from me with direction from Jade.
Peace out, punk.
/Gee.
Year 2009.
January
The year of 2009 started out with an awesome New Year's Eve at Hypermansion. That's when that little black table burned down, my friend missed his flight to Israel and loads of crazy things happened.
I got convinced to follow my pals to Västerås. Got introduced to a bunch of great people there and discovered that the town wasn't that bad after all.
January was pretty cold otherwise, I hung out with my "tapir" brothers and made all kinds of crazy shit.
February
This is when "Swagger lounge" got established. The high season of "all-nighters" and pulling nice projects besides school. Great times.
Loads of hanging out at the office of Hyper Island, long days and even longer nights. Fred's reppin' me.
Crazy shot for the intro in my showreel. Who knew where that little piece of motion graphics could take me? 
March
The introduction of home-made ping pong at Hyper Island.
Shooting for our class promotion site (53colors.com) with Anders & Ina.
Hours and hours of ping pong playing led to Official Hyper Island Ping Pong Open.
April
Thought I met the love of my life what a couple of month later turned out to crash my heart in bits and pieces.
Work work work. Ditching school and getting some more work done.
May
Collective dancing "..with Leroy" at Hyper Island.
Took an awesome trip to Oslo, Norway with the boys. Crazy adventures.
Spring, soon to be summer and sun, quality time in the park with classmates and bro's before Peter's live gig.
June
Last days before vacation. Nothing but dance and partying.
Weird circumstances took me to the city of Örebro for a couple of days, realized that I'm not going back there for a while if ever.
Moved back to mom & dad after living at friends' places.
July
Had a blast working at Futurniture's office through mr.Lauding with the guys that night.
I even managed to score the beach a whole bunch of times.
And really got to spend some quality time with Sean (You are great). Here is spontaneous canvas painting session. (Is that someone sitting there besides you, Sean? Can't remeber.)
August
Greg: "It's summer, we should just go somewhere", Sean: "Let's go to London next week". So we did. Hooked up with Sam, got to know Abby, the times were just great.
Followed my parents to Gotland right after the London trip. And that was just as much "fun" as you can see in the photo.
When I got back from Gotland, my awesome friends threw me a birthday party. Thanks for the presents and for the lovely night.
September
Summer is over. Got this thing e-mailed from my mom, thought it was just great lines of text.
The weather still allowed some classic flip sessions at the tennis court with Björn and Andreas.
And more work and all-nighters.
October
Saw these two guys taking their idea from just simple words to twitter and then to real life clubbing project. Great job dudes, I am proud.
Final project. Working with this lovely group of people. Wish we could work more together.
I got my internship a while ago, but the visa application process just f*cked with my mind bigtime. I guess that's how many of my classmates felt.
November
We managed to squeeze in one last project. Hours and hours of photography, photoshop and lies. That project made me come even more close with my best friends and colleagues and unfortunately realize that some friends will just be friends and not co-workers. Such a pity that I missed my own presentation of that case.
Hey, look who made it to New York! Standing there all proud in Central Park.
I moved in into a loft/studio in Brooklyn with these three gentlemen. Feels great to live with some of my idols. Really if you only knew.
December
Got settled as a designer intern at Domani Studios, really nice company and great co-workers. I look forward to spend a lot of time here.
Got the most awesome visit from Sweden. Andreas "Tapir" himself, wow what a blast it was. Now that's someone who gets me. Loads of love.
That's pretty much it. Short recap of a pretty intensive year. I feel like I got a couple of years older in just a few months.
Thanks for everything.
/G.
Happy holdiays.
How you doin’?
Yeah, it's been a while since I wrote anything in this blog, but now when I'm in NYC, it feels like a right thing to do. So from now on, I'll be posting as much as I can.
I am doing my internship at Domani Studios, an interactive, production company. The place is great, I get to do what I love, the colleagues are awesome and it only takes 20 minutes to get here from home.
I am living with three other hypernauts in a big loft in Brooklyn, Andreas Tapir is also here to visit us for a couple of weeks.
What can I say, the weather is great, I am finally in the city I wished to be at since childhood - feels good.. Really good.
Fridge Viral.
We've been having long conversations about the mess in refrigerators here at Hyper Island, Stockholm. It all ended with a note on the door sayin' "put name on all your stuff". The particular word "stuff" got me thinking that things besides food are welcome in our refrigerators, so I made a little experiment, I put a weird paperfolded robot with my name on it, right on the milk shelf. Let's see how long it will last there.
