A couple of month ago we where included on a list I never had dreamed about.

“The list represents the biggest innovators of the year, who—through repeated demonstration of sheer brilliance or even just one spectacular feat—brought new spark to their respective fields of advertising, entertainment, marketing, technology, design and beyond.”

Absolute amazing! A great award for our whole office!

The article of North Kingdom.
The article about Creativity 50.

We won both Grand in the 2008 New York Festivals (NYF) Innovative Advertising Awards and also won Gold for Best Microsite. It is amazing how much good publicity this project have given us! Unfortunately we did not have time for this years Got Milk campaign for Got Milk, but I hope to have the chance again next winter.

Here is an article in the Swedish Resumé for the awards.

“Det har talats länge om hur filmberättandet tar plats på webben. Men med Coke Zeros kampanjsajt inför fotbolls-EM 2008 visar Skellefteåbyrån North Kingdom att det är från spelvärlden webben har mest att hämta.”

Read the whole story here.

Shit! We did it again!! We won x 2!!

FWA Site Of The Year
FWA People Choice Award

“This is only the second time in FWA’s history that the same site has won both the SOTY and PCA awards, so huge congratulations!” - Rob Ford, The FWA

Last time we won the doubale was with our Vodafone Future Vision back in 2004. Amazing!

1 Year Long Global Competition
12+ million site visits
365 Site Of The Day Winners
12 Site Of The Month Finalists
1 International Public Vote
82872 votes cast
1 People Choice Award Winner

“Holy Cow! Getting the FWA PCA is from our view the greatest prize you can win. We have always tried to put the users in the first room and this is a proof that we have succeeded!” - David Eriksson, CEO North Kingdom

It is also a recognition to the whole North Kingdom Team and a reward for all the love and passion we put into our work.

Here is a Swedish article as well by IDG.

As I will re-locate to our North Kingdom Stockholm or Gothenburg office shortly, we need to find someone that can take my Art Director position and responsibility at our northern head quarter, where this photo is from. There are also some other openings that might be of interest to you like Creative, Flash Developer, Information Architect, Production Manager and Account Manager…

Read more here.

Some of our team in Skellefteå… I’m the glad one in the middle with hat.

This weekend we went to Svansele Wilderness Camp, 60km from Skellefteå, with the whole team of North Kingdom and spent one night out in nowhere. We had no electricity, no running water and definitely no internet, but lot of fun!

   More pictures and information here.

Together with Goodby, Silverstein & Partners we won two Golds Statuettes, at London International Awards with our Get the Glass project. What a great year!

Awards is not everything in the world but still, it is little sad that small creative agencies like ours never get the cred as we should have…

We also had a finalist with our Vodafone Journey.

Wow! Advertising Age has listed North Kingdom as one of the “The Hottest Digital Agencies Around”.

“Despite waves of consolidation across the ad-agency business, there remains a healthy bunch of independent digital shops doing everything from search optimization to building web interfaces to simply doing damn good creative. Some of these shops are near-acquisitions for digital-hungry giants; others are adamantly opposed to becoming part of something larger, hanging onto the romantic notion of David vs. Goliath.”

I am very honored! And I can tell you that we are not Goliath!

Here is a note about it in the Swedish press: Resumé

Amazing!!! My company has been chosen to FWA Hall of Fame! I am very proud of all our employees! You guys are the best!!!

“North Kingdom is the first company to ever have won both a Site Of The Year award and a People’s Choice Award. The fact that they made this, so far, unique achievement is even greater seeing that they won both in the same year for their pioneering Vodafone Future Vision site. North Kingdom is one of the very few agencies who consistently produce the most creative and progressive websites and is hailed as one of the world’s best by their industry peers as well. - Rob Ford, FWA Founder.

Wow! Otroligt roligt! We don´t know what to say up here! We are very glad and very honored to be mentioned at the FWA Hall of Fame! It means a lot for us! We are a small agency but still fighting with the big bulls! Nothing is impossible in this branch! - Robert Lindström, Art & Design Director / Co-Founder, North Kingdom”

For the third year in row we have our North Kingdom days up in Skellefteå just before our summer vacation. It is three days of education and internal discussion about how we can improve ourselves as a team. On the picture you see David Eriksson speaking about our visions in Rogers parents summer cottage just outside Skellefteå.

   More pictures and information here.

“The 10th annual .net awards are upon us. Who’s won, who’s lost, who’s the hottest property on the internet?”
North Kigndom was given the Interactive Site of the Year by the international .net magazine.

The award was again for our “Get the Glass” campaign! Awesome! Sometimes it is easy to forget all late hours you have spent in a project. If it was worth it? Well, that is another question…

But still, it is always great to get recognition like that! Thank you .net!

Project: T-shirt Design. My work: Illustrator/ Designer. Client: North Kingdom.
Information: A t-shirt concept I made for North Kingdom.