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Even before the first year is over, the Interactive Art Director program is a true success. The students are extremely attractive in both Sweden and abroad. More than half of the students are doing their internship at top international agencies.

The Interactive Art Director program is a new one-year full-time program at Hyper Island. The program aims towards students with two years of previous design experience. The program is based on Hyper Island's unique pedagogy, where students learn-by-doing and mix change management, creativity with interactive sessions from the worlds leading industry professionals.

The first group of Interactive Art Director students are currently doing their internship at agencies such as Farfar (Stockholm), Goodby Silverstein & Partners (San Francisco), Wieden + Kennedy (Amsterdam). R/GA (London), Le Bureau (Stockholm) and Åkestam.Holst (Stockholm).

"There is a great need for competence within interactive media in Sweden as well as abroad. Hyper Island is the leading educational centre to fill this need", says Mattias Hansson, Hyper Island's CEO. "The fact that our students are spread out in cities such as New York, Peking and Karlstad, tell you a lot about the high level of our students competence. It is no coincidence that we have internship requests from seven of the ten most rewarded interactive agencies in the world."

A great opportunity to take a closer look at the school is to visit Hyper Island's open house on the 12th of April. During the day you can meet current and previous students, lecturers, listen to various DJ:s as well as the staff of Hyper Island.

A list of the agencies with interns from the Interactive Art Director Program:
180, Amsterdam
Abby Norm, Stockholm
Åkestam.Holst, Stockholm
Artificial Duck, Hamburg
Citat, Stockholm
DMG Group, Peking
Farfar, Stockholm
Fjord, Berlin
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners San Francisco
Great Works, Barcelona
Le Bureau, Stockholm
Lowe Brindfors, Stockholm
LPIP, Sydney
Odopod, San Francisco
Ogilvy, New York
Poke, London
R/GA, London
R/GA, New York
Sid Lee, Montreal
Storåkers, Stockholm
The Other Media, London
Vasava, Barcelona
Wieden+Kennedy, Amsterdam

Hyper Island runs educations within interactive media and leadership. The school was founded in Karlskrona in 1996 and started a new bransch in 2007 at Telefonplan, the biggest growing design area in Stockholm. Hyper Island offers five different full-time educations within interactive media and a business management education. Starting this year, Hyper Island also offers "Hyper Island Master Class", interactive media courses for industry people.

For more information, please contact
Mattias Hansson, CEO, mattias.hansson@hyperisland.se
Åsa Silfverberg, Director Karlskrona, asa.silfverberg@hyperisland.se
Roger Sjögren, Director Stockholm, roger.sjogren@hyperisland.se