ljudbilden & piloten

Both “Animals” and “Hitchhiker’s Choice” are nominated and will be screened on New York International Children’s Film Festival.
wonderful!

I’m hooked on drawing on my iPhone.
Perfect for the 20min busride to the studio, boring waits and the once before so meaningless visits to the toilet…no more.
i use both Sketchbook mobile and Brushes.
both good at what they do.
Here’s some Brushes drawings. Click to see drawingvideos.

And here’s the latest sketchbook drawing.

We made this for Sony Ericsson’s new magic headphones MH907.

Director/Animaton/Clay/Characterdesign: Kristofer Ström
VFX/Compositing/Animation: Eric Buchholtz
Music/Soundeffects: Douglas Holmquist
Agency: Top Dollar
Campaign AD: Malin Olsson
Producers: Bart Yates, Nicholas Wakeham
Studio: Varelsen
BehindTheScenesFootage: Johan Sundell

sonyericsson.com/putyourearsincontrol

made this so that the people in gothenburg shouldn’t forget that biking is indeed a great way to go from A to B and B to anywhere…

Director/animaton/AD: Kristofer Ström
VFX/animation: Eric Buchholtz
Producer: Nicholas Wakeham
Music: Douglas Holmquist
Agency: Frank&Earnest
Studio: Varelsen
BehindTheScenesPhotos: Martin Ottosson

Upptäck cykeln igen

Behind the scenes

a prize at KOLLA.SE third year in a row, this time a silver for the ANIMALS video.
oh yes thank you!

2008 was pretty much all “the Carphone Warehouse” and “x-factor”
lost count on how many idents and spots we made…it was quite a few.

Here’s the main two
A breif History of communication

There was a time

oh yes, once again nominated at the yearly KOLLA.se
and yes, flattered as always
we’ll all know if the prize is ours on the

the nominees are:
Dennis Eriksson - A Fox, A Moose & Aren’t We Going That Way? No, We’re Going This Way.
Hanna Nilsson, Sofia Østerhus/Byggstudio - iittala pre-opening window
Kristofer Ström/Ljudbilden & Piloten - Animals

Here’s a compilation of some of the animations i’ve made for KOBRA (Swedish Television - SVT)
There’s more…a lot more.

And this little vid me and Erik Buchholtz made for Minilogue just got nominated at KOLLA.se

this is old but i just saw that i never posted the video

Director & Characterdesign: Kristofer Ström
Animation: Martin Ottosson, Stefan Narancic
Prod: Blink Ink/Bart Yates
Photography: Johan Sundell
Music: Douglas Holmquist
Prodass: Björn Wahlström
Agency: S-W-H

also got awarded with best illustration at art directors club in netherlands

Sometime in 2008 i was asked to contribute with some of my clayfigures in a Ford commercial called “Zeitgeist”
helping out with light, sweat and camera was Johan Sundell

and here’s the whole thing, directed by Noah Harris a fellow Blink Ink‘er

As you can see…i’ve been really busy and there’s been no time to update this blog.
I will, soon.
There’s a lot to write about so it’s a lot to sort.
For those of you who’s been waiting, thanks for your patience!

K

From the latest issue of Creative Review.

“Blinkink has put together this set of splendid limited edition prints, featuring artwork by four of the directors repped by the company. Shown clockwise from top left, are posters by Ben Hibon, Pleix, Kalle Haglund and Kristofer Ström”

many thanks for all the votes!
i won the people’s vote category
…love you still!

happy happy joy joy!
i won gold for my KOBRA animations and silver with the Zonnatura TVC. Both at the yearly Kolla.se.
And Zonnatura won best illustration at the Art Directors Club Nederland.

…hey hey hey…what can i say but happiness!