One of the most difficult things about starting to freelance, is knowing how much to charge. If you charge too little, you could be considered unserious, if you charge too much - you’re likely to lose the client (unless you have a reputation and a portfolio to back it up)....

The last five weeks has been an intense, sometimes hellish, yet rewarding time. During this period, my business partner Stephanie Rydle and I have conceptualized and released the first version of our business - Swedishfresh.com, a website which promotes up to five Swedish designers every quarter to the international market. I...

Our latest module at Hyper Island  - Information Society, called for all students to contact "digital media influencers", - those that stood out for creating/leading ground breaking campaigns that help form our digital future. A recent campaign which caught my attention and heart was Space150's Augmented Reality campaign for clothing brand...

RSS Graffiti has doubled in the last three months and now serves over 170.000 feeds to approximately 100.000 profile and fan page walls on Facebook. A great milestone, for a small side project started by it's two founders Yannis Roussochatzakis and Dimitris Komis 20 months ago. I have personally followed Yannis...

It's day 2 of the intensive Hyper Island way week, based on the infamous UGL courses - to learn about yourself, team dynamics and the role you play in this. Most of our exercises are based upon the effective team leadership/membership principals by Dr. Susan Wheelan.  It is Wheelan's  belief that...

The last two days marked our induction program for Diploma students. The highlight of the induction was the Scavenger hunt - which transformed 7 individuals to a single entity - set on winning the task at hand. The hunt took place in Gamla Stan, Stockholm and included fun activities, such as...

I absolutely love the concept of openIDEO - a collaborative open online tool for creating design solutions for social good. http://vimeo.com/13707896 Each Challenge (Big Question) is broken up in a four step process. Insipration. Concepting. Evaluation. Winning idea. Whether it be business acumen, creative or code - each user can contribute at...

The Story I am a fool for a fun, sexy website and a good deal, as much as the next person. Usually I can remain satisfied, as long as the experience ends there. However, we decided to take an offer from the well publicized collective buying site groupon.com for a, well,...