Kavli – Saatchi & Saatchi

PHOTO: Hans Carlén
RETOUCH: Anna Nordstedt
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Pressbyran – Åkestam Holst

For this photo/CGI shoot we used tons of bananas, polygons and cinnamon buns. The original idea was to photograph the coffee cups, but by creating them in 3D we had more flexibility. To add some nice natural colour tones to the bananas, Art Director Fredrik Josefsson used a can of glossy yellow spray. The resulting images were used widely in print.

PHOTO: Hans Carlén
3D/CGI: Frederik Tennholt
RETOUCH: Frederik Tennholt, Andreas Lübeck & Erik Hemmingson
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

PHOTO: Hans Carlén
RETOUCH: Philip Cederman
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Swedish Open Båstad – ANR BBDO

The mastermind behind this creative double page ad is AD Marcus Göransson from ANR DDBO. The message is ‘Tennis without a net – is like summer without (Swedish Open) Båstad.

PHOTO: Martin Brunn
3D/CGI & RETOUCH: Johan Svensson
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Kungsörnen – McCann Stockholm

Images like these speak for themselves.

PHOTO: Hans Carlén
RETOUCH: Anna Nordstedt
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Atlas Copco

Atlas Copco is a Swedish industrial company that was founded in 1873. It is a global leader in the manufacture of industrial tooling and equipment. For this particular job we packed up our equipment and left the studios behind. The studio for these images was a underground test mine, over 30 meters below a shopping centre. You could say that we created these tough images in a pretty tough environment.

PHOTO: Martin Brunn
RETOUCH: Roger Sandberg
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Samsung xCover – Spinn

Wind, snow, rain or mud – who cares about the weather if you have the latest Samsung smartphone. It is built to resist anything, including water, dirt and dust. Markel Ahlenius from Spinn asked us to visualise this, and these images were the final result.

PHOTO: Hans Carlén
RETOUCH: Erik Hemmingson & Johan Svensson
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Vita – Lokrantz & Co

PHOTO: Pekka Stålnacke
RETOUCH: Andreas Lübeck
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Volt – Friskis&Svettis

Ad Jörgen Berglund and designer Åsa Stjärnquist from Volt came to us with this project for their brand new client, the Swedish sports association Friskis&Svettis (Healthy&Sweaty). Many elements needed to be retouched together to create the illusion of hand written text on steamed up windows.

PHOTO: Pekka Stålnacke
RETOUCH: Frederik Tennholt
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Folkoperan – Lowe Brindfors

AD Lina Brunzell from Lowe Brindfors contacted us for this pretty unusual model shoot for the promotion of the 2012 opera premiere ‘Cleopatra meets Julius Caesar’. Cleopatra is portrayed as a ‘rather loose woman’ in the eyes of Caesar, although in a very positive way according to the AD. The idea was born for a classical singing ‘blow up doll’ in a Cleopatra wig.

PHOTO: Pekka Stålnacke
RETOUCH: Frederik Tennholt
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

ATG V75 – Åkestam Holst

This image was created for ATG (the Swedish Horse Racing Totalisator Board) the only Swedish betting company with a license for horse race betting. Tobias Tolvanen, Art Director at Åkestam Holst needed a golden logotype lying on a blue fabric for V75. We shot lots of different photographs of the fabric and our CGI team created the logo. We first thought that the CGI element would be the most time consuming, but instead the real challenge ended up being the retouch of the silky fabric. The final image and campaign appeared on TV, in print and in ATG stores throughout Sweden.

PHOTO: Hans Carlén
3D/CGI & RETOUCH: Frederik Tennholt
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

What no chips?

Then how about pommes château from France or boiled new potatoes from Sweden?

PHOTO: Hans Carlén
RETOUCH: Anna Nordstedt
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Colourful images for a colourful shopping mall

PHOTO: Pekka Stålnacke
RETOUCH: Erik Hemmingson & Philip Cederman
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Pressbyrån – Åkestam Holst

If you can’t change the product then why not change the message?

PHOTO: Hans Carlén
3D/CGI & RETOUCH: Frederik Tennholt & Roger Sandberg
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

SaveMyDay – Morris Pinewood

In order to reach the heights of our creativity (or to get the most bang for the buck as he puts it) Mattias Frodlund and Hanna Moe of Morris Pinewood came to us in the very early stages of the international launch of the new group buying site SaveMyDay.com, owned by Metro International.

New images to relaunch successful ad campaign

As most things in life, two is better than one and that was the driving force behind this highly visual campaign by Fredrik Josefsson, AD at Åkestam Holst. The theme for the campaign was ‘A cup of coffee is seldom alone’ and together with Fredrik we created these twisty, twirly images using a whole mixture of our talents including photo, 3D and retouch. It gave us a lot of enjoyment making these lively and playful images and we hope you like them too – or should we say two.

PHOTO: Hans Carlén, Pekka Stålnacke & Petter Brandt
3D/CGI & RETOUCH: Frederik Tennholt & Johan Svensson
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Com Hem – King

PHOTO: Martin Brunn
RETOUCH: Andreas Lübeck
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Mixing business with pleasure

This was the first time working with our new client, Kelly and Pling. Under the art direction of Måns Hermansson we set out to produce these images for an in-store campaign showing the Electrolux range of rod mixers and the marvels they can accomplish. This is minimalistic food photography at its best.

Kelly and Pling even wanted moving images to complete the stills on this project. This gave us the opportunity to work closely together with our friends at Snask Film. Using the same look and feel as the stills, Snask produced this beautiful, modern and stylish ad:

PHOTO: Hans Carlén
RETOUCH: Roger Sandberg
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi
FILM PRODUCTION & POST: Snask Film

My 8 favorites – Judit look-alikes

This is the latest instalment in the Com Hem campaign by the people at King. It carries on the spirit of the fictional twin characters Judit and Judit through eight different look-alikes to illustrate the variety of channels supplied by Com Hem. The original campaign, celebrating Com Hem’s 10th anniversary, premiered in 2009 and has been extremely popular, much due to Judit and Judit’s Youtube cameo.

PHOTO: Hans Carlén
RETOUCH: Anna Nordstedt
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

150 years of clean water

Once again we have been entrusted by Emanuel Pinje and Torbjörn Olofsson from Carlsöö to supply images for Stockholm Vattens (Stockholm Water) yearly campaign. This year Stockholm is celebrating 150 years of tap water. Some people (mostly us proud swedes) like to think it is the cleanest tap water in the world. These wonderful views of Stockholms clear and crisp tap water are currently appearing as large format posters all over the city.

PHOTO: Pekka Stålnacke / Client
RETOUCH: Erik Hemmingson
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

The truth unveiled

Together with the team from DDB, AD Jennie Arvenäs, Web Director Jeffrey Salomonsson and Producer Mattias Colden, we made this fascinating documentary revealing the secrets behind the making of some classic McDonalds, the BigMac, the Quarter Pounder, the McFeast… Tickets to Cannes already booked, for sure!

Photo: Hans Carlén
Assistants: Petter Brandt & Olle Kirchmeier
Producer: Akram Janzi

I am a Festis!

Believe it or not but Festis was originally launched under the brand name FEST-iS in 1961 and was Sweden’s first still orange drink. A lot of changes have been made since then and behind the latest modern and youthful design is AD Isabelle Dahlborg Lidström from No Picnic. For this project we modelled and created all of the images for this spring seasons many exiting tastes.

3D/CGI: Frederik Tennholt & Johan Svensson
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Talking Letters

In this digital age there is nothing that quite beats getting a personal letter through the post – unless of course it is a bill. This new and fun campaign for Posten was put together by Åkestam Holst’s AD Lars Holthe, PL Maria Ljung and designer Oscar Gardö. All you need is a computer and your voice – you do the talking, the computer does the writing and Posten delivers your letter.

PHOTO: Pekka Stålnacke
RETOUCH: Philip Cederman
FINAL ARTWORK: Martin Dickins
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Future Classics

NK was founded in 1902 and is Stockholm’s most famous luxury department store. This latest campaign is all about celebrating the past and the future by collecting previously sold goods to create an exhibition of NK classics. The future classics being this years NK spring collection. The team from Garbergs including Josephine Fahlstedt were the masterminds behind this project.

PHOTO: Hans Carlén
RETOUCH: Erik Hemmingson
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

We really put our hearts into this one!

Our friends at Åkestam Holst, AD Annika Trangius and PL Agneta Oppenheim, briefed us on an idea for a series of ads, posters and leaflets for the drugstore chain ”Apotek Hjärtat” (Pharmacy Heart). Together with the Nobel prize gala florist Gunnar Kaj we took the ideas one step further for the Christmas campaign. For the following January campaign we teamed up with the talented stylist Malin Thorngren and we brought out the magic once again. Since then this theme has continued to evolve leading to new and fresh ideas. Always from the heart.

PHOTO: Hans Carlén
RETOUCH: Erik Hemmingson
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

State-of-the-art skincare

Is this one of our 3D state-of-the-art splashes you may ask yourself? Nope, not this time. In fact its a mixture of photographed splashes retouched together to create this final image which reflects the precision, purity and quality that are synonymous with Switzerland and the Skincode brand.

PHOTO: Pekka Stålnacke
RETOUCH: Erik Hemmingson
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Make room for summer

These colourful images were created for IKEA’s little summer catalogue for the traditional little swedish summer house. It was certainly one of the smallest IKEA catalogues we have ever seen – just 88 x 104 millimetres.

PHOTO: Pekka Stålnacke
RETOUCH: Anna Nordstedt
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

A view from above

PHOTO: Martin Brunn
RETOUCH: Anna Nordstedt
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

No products? No problem.

This project comprised of an extremely large order of images from ACOs range of products. As the products had only just been signed off from the design stage this was the perfect situation to create them in 3D, thus providing the client with images before the actual products had been manufactured and were on the shop shelves. We did shoot the fruit though.

3D/CGI: Johan Svensson
PHOTO: Martin Brunn
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi

Design of the Month

Axfood commissioned us to produce the entire collection of their newly designed range of cleaning products ‘Såklart’ (So obvious) in 3D. By creating each product in 3D we could easily apply the newly designed artworks from Bas Brand Identity onto the wireframe models. We then created and delivered to the client high quality, crystal clear images viewed from different angles, and group pictures where we could easily interchange the products. The design for this range was awarded ‘Design of the Month’ by the swedish advertising magazine Resumé. Read more here…

3D/CGI: Johan Svensson
PRODUCER: Akram Janzi