Nidar Favoritter

This is a small project I worked on for Nidar Favoritter while at Jimmy Royal.
Nidar Favoritter is a series of products with “norways favorite chocolate pieces”.

The client wanted the customers to be able to create their own favorite piece, and the winners (selected by a jury) would end up in the actual bag. The campaign resulted in more than 53.000 favorite pieces submitted and 3,5 million pageviews.

This job gave me a lot of experience with BitmapData-manipulation, and was one of the first projects I did entirely without a .fla file (late to the party I know).

Design was done by Daniel Tveiten, back-end by Tommy Stomlien and flash development by me.

The campaign is no longer active, but you can see an archived version here.

KiMs – Smaken av din fredag

Campaign for KiMs (potato chips) where the users where allowed to create a new flavor, design the bag and battle it out for a cash price of $18.000!

KiMs got more than 50.000 submissions and 44.000 registered users – generating more than
7 million page-views during the campaign period.

Due to the big cash price, security and cheating was a big concern. The whole team put a lot of effort into making the system as secure as possible. A user had to create an account and verify by email to enter the contest. Furthermore a users could only “battle” a bag one time a day, making cheating and boosting your own bag more difficult. Some users tried to create multiple accounts with disposable emails, but this was easily discovered in the excellent admin system that Tommy built.

Design was done by Daniel Tveiten, back-end by Tommy Stomlien while I did the flash programming.

The campaign is now in it’s final stage and is closed for new submissions, but you can view an archived version here.

Litago Kuene Bestemmer

Kuene Bestemmer is another fun project I got to work on, also for Litago while at Jimmy Royal.

After letting the consumers decide what the next taste would be through a series of campaigns, the client wanted to let the cows producing the milk decide for themselves.

The job turned out great, with live video-feeds from the farm and real-time tracking of the cows. I did the map, position-tracking and video-streaming in flash, while Tommy Stomlien did all the back-end and the rest of the site. Concept and idea by Dist Creative.

The site won the “Craftsmanship Of The Year” award at Gulltaggen 2011.

You can learn more about the project here or see the archived version of the site here.

SpareBank1 Pensjonskalkulator

Project done for SpareBank1 while at Jimmy Royal.

With the introduction of new pension scheme in Norway, SpareBank1 wanted a website to show and explain how this affects your future pension. My task was to implement the “industry standard for pension calculation”, a 20-page document with mathematical formulas and tables, as a visual calculator.

In collaboration with Petter Hansen at SpareBank1 I managed to port the entire pension calculation to Actionscript. This included among other things tables for life expectancy adjustment and index/value adjustment.

A lot of effort was put into making the user-interface and information easy to understand.

Click here to visit the site and try the pension calculator.

Litago KuKunst

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Litago over several years while being employed at Jimmy Royal.

On this particular job, we wanted the public to design a 3d-model of the brands famous cow.
More than 40.000 cows where designed and submitted during the campaign period, and I’m proud to say that we won an “FWA Site of the day”.

I did the framework, php/mysql back-end and all the individual pages – while Håvard Stranden (my boss) did the actual drawing editor. The design was done by Sandro Kværnmo a former Jimmy Royal employee, now with Strømme Throndsen Design. Concept and idea was done by Dist Creative.

The campaign is no longer active, but you can see an archived version here.

KLIKK! for Amnesty International

After winning the KLIKK! 2009 competition we got to do a pro bono job for Amnesty International Norge.

The goal was to help people around the world who have been subject to network censorship by their own government through collecting “digital” signatures.

The idea was to create attention through gentle, continuous and perhaps a little different “nagging”. We created a series of banner-ads that kept track of how many times, where and when the user had been exposed to the banners. Based on the local users-statistic and signature statistic loaded from our servers, we presented a series of different customized messages.

To be able to collect and store the statistic about the user across different browsers and domains, I came up with the idea to load a small shim-swf from a feeding server. Because the shim always loaded from the same domain, we could read and write data (timestamp, host/domain, current screen etc.) to the same SharedObject, regardless of where the actual banner-ads were deployed.

All signatures were stored on our server, alongside geo-location of the user and what host the signature came from. These data were then in turn used to generate more statistics that were exported to the feeding server, and loaded into the banners.

The design was done by Sandro Kværnmo, while I did flash development and mysql/php. The feeding service was donated by Wox.

Check out the banners here!
(refresh the page to see different screens and stats)

Nycoplus – Overskudd til å gjøre det

Product site for Nycoplus nutritional supplements done while at Jimmy Royal.

The illustrations where done by Elisabeth Moseng, the design by Anders Aakre while I did back-end and flash development.

Click here to see an archived version of the site.

Trygghetsrådgiveren

This project was an audio/video based information campaign for TrygVesta, a norwegian insurance company.

The goal was to educate users about everyday risks by taking them through various scenarios of video and voice, asking them to complete tasks along the way.

This was the very last project I did at Apt, and through it( and the team I worked with) I learned a lot about stuff like audio/video syncing, the flash drawing api and advanced font-rendering techniques.

Design and video was done by Roy Kristoffersen, while Alexander Pope and I did flash development.

Click here to see an archived version of the site.

Plan Norge Jubileum

This is a project I did at Apt for Plan Norge, a norwegian charity, celebrating their 10 year anniversary in Norway in 2007.

The idea was to show users the history of the organisation through a chronological timeline of images, text and video.

Due to circumstances outside my control, the site never launched properly – but I really enjoyed making it and think it turned out quite nice.

The design was done by Marius Lundegaard, while I did the flash development.

Click here to see an archived version of the site.

Gi Litt

This is a project I did way back in 2004 or 2005 for Plan Norge while working at Apt.

The concept was to have an interactive christmas tree where the public could light candles by sending a text-message, and by doing so supporting the Plan Norge charity.

The site won the “Innovation Award” at Gulltaggen 2006. The 3d-elements was done by Gimpville, the design by Magnus Cederholm, back-end by Anders Stalheim Øfsdahl and flash development by me.

Check out the site here.

WOW by BikBok

Fun little site for the kids clothing brand WOW by BikBok done back in 2004 /2005 while employed at Apt.

The design was done by Eric Lauritzen, back-end by Anders Stalheim Øfsdahl and flash development by me.

Click here to see an archived version of the site.

(Please keep in mind that this is an old site, and everything might not work as expected)

Toyota Aygo

This was a great project done at Apt way back in 2004 (i think) for the launch of Toyota Aygo.

Toyota wanted to target a young audience and focus on the ability to customize the car and it’s unique finance options.

We ended up creating a campaign site with an online design tool where the users could paint and draw on the car in a pseudo 3d-space. The designs where entered into a contest, and the winner actually got the car in his/hers own design. To complement the site we also created banner-ads, fashioned as a parking lot, feeding in the latest designs submitted.

This was a big ass job back in 2000-and-something, and there was a huge team involved in this job – so sorry for not mentioning all of you here. To read up on the job and everyone involved click here, or check out an archived version of the site here.

(Please keep in mind that this is an old site, and everything might not work as expected)