Bachelor Student Wins Journalist Prize in Ossie Award 2009
2010-01-14
Nicklas Wallberg from Söderköping, Sweden took
Berghs Bachelor program and continued his studies at
Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia. In June he graduated as ECU’s first Bachelor of Communications student holding a major in Broadcasting. One of the features he made while at ECU snatched first prize in the prestigious journalist student award
Ossie Award.
”It was certainly a great feeling to receive this honor”, says Nicklas. “It was tough competition and we worked many late nights in order to produce this feature.”
In the category ”Best TV Current Affairs Story” Nicklas and his study mate Ana Quinn won for their skilled camera technique and distinct storytelling. The duo was competing against 18 other universities in Australia and New Zeeland.
”The feature treats Dr George O’Neils controversial treatment of heroin abusers in Perth”, Nicklas explains.
”During my two and a half years at ECU I had the pleasure to meet news reporters, anchormen, hosts and editors and it gave me an insight into an industry which I think can be difficult to approach otherwise. All the teachers at ECU’s Broadcasting program are hand-picked from the industry and many of them are still working with TV or radio in one way or another”, says Nicklas.
Broadcasting is the area in which audio and video signals are transmitted as information to an audience. Nicklas produced many TV and radio features during his years in Perth and got a deeper understanding for how journalists think and work.
“Apart from Broadcasting I also did a major in Public Relations, so it was great fun to see things from both sides. I’m convinced I know how to deal with media much better now than I would have without my broadcasting education”, Nicklas states.
Nicklas tailor-made his education so that he could take the units he wanted and receive his Bachelor of Communication degree with two majors. From the beginning he did Public Relations only, and had no second major. He chose Broadcasting-units just ’for fun’ but broadcasting grew on him and after pulling some threads he got his customized program approved by the university authority and thus broadcasting as a second major.
Jo McManus (picture above), course coordinator at ECU Broadcasting explains how Nicklas managed to become ECU’s first Broadcasting major graduate.
”Nick is the first graduate ever of the ECU Broadcasting major. To achieve this, he had to do some substitute units. It’s a testament to Nick’s work ethic – his enthusiasm and effort – that I as course coordinator, allowed him to do this. He is hard working, conscientious and meticulous. He would make a great employee, particularly in production”, says Jo McManus.
”At ECU we’re welcoming students from all over the world, wherever they’re from”, says Jo. ”Swedish students in particular always seem hard working and charming, so it’s a delight to have them on campus.”

Today Nicklas is freelancing in Melbourne where he lives with his Australian girlfriend. He is working on the music project
Tram Sessions together with his Berghs Bachelor mate Carl Johan Malmsten. In addition to that he writes as Formula 1-expert at the Swedish Fans website;
Svenska Fans.
Berghs Bachelor Spreading All Over The World
2009-12-18
Berghs is now letting out another class of 25 hungry Bachelor students. They are now spreading all over the world to complete their Bachelor degrees.

The Australian university Edith Cowan University in Perth distributed a scholarship on 2500 AUD (corresponding 16 000 SEK) to a student who is considered a good role model for future Bachelor students.
"Awarded to someone who not only has excellent results during the foundation semester at Berghs, but who, by consistently displaying diligence, devotion and creativity can also be expected to be an eminent student lliason between ECU and Berghs, and an ideal ambassador for the Berghs-to-ECU Bachelor Program in the years ahead. In short: a role model for future Bachelor students."Anna Kling-Hult, was announced the winner by the committee and she was overwhelmed by the announcement.
Anna Kling-Hult receiving flowers and scholarship from Lotta Blomberg.
”I am so happy and overwhelmed! I’m leaving for Australia on Sunday already. First, I’ll be celebrating Christmas in Sydney with my family, then I’m heading to Perth.”
In November, during the
Brand X-week, 8 Bachelor students from the Perth-university ECU came to Berghs to join the project.
“If it felt right to go to ECU before the students came here to visit us, it feels extremely right now. I’m so pumped and the scholarship came as a great surprise.”
The 25 students are now continuing their Bachelor-studies abroad and this spring another Bachelor class at Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm. You can still apply if you are interested in Berghs Bachelor. Read more
here.
AKQA coming to Berghs to find talent
2009-12-17
Daniel Bonner has been working at AKQA for a long time, here he answers to why.
What's the reason to your success?
Ambition to do something new. If we turned up to work every day and did what we knew how to do, I think we would only last six months, because everyone would get bored and would want to do something else. We have an ambition and attitude that what we did last week was fine last week, but we want to do something new this week.
And hard work, being part of any high performing team we need to do twice as much training as all the other teams. The reason world champions is because they work harder, they train harder. It’s a good place to be when everyone’s doing it.
How do you make people creative?
We let them do what they’re good at.
How do you find them?
We don’t interview people, we talk to them. We have a chat, there’s a certain attitude that come through. That we’re likeminded and want to achieve the same things. We not only need to attract talent, but maintain talent. And I think we do that by giving them opportunities to do what they do best.
We hire great people and allow them to do what they do best. Obviously guide them and help them along the way, but It’s very much about giving them freedom and opportunities with the clients we’ve got and allowing them to do what they do best. We also try to put the right people on the right work, that’s very important. You’ve got to live and breathe what the brands want to do and say. You’ve got to do some tweeks and changes in order to get the best out of people.
Daniel shares AKQA's visions and campaigns he's particularly proud of.
In order to help people to be creative you’ve to be prepared to make some decisions and change things around and not get to stuck in a rigid formula, becasue then it becomes a formula and everything looks the same and it becomes a factory. And you don’t want a factory so we want to change things as often as we can.
What are you most proud of?
I’m really proud of the team we have. We have a lot of people there who have been there 5-10 years. That’s not that unusual, so that’s good. We hire the right people who want to come along on this kind of journey. We have some people, like myself for example, who joined as a designer or creative and have grown through the ranks and have now become senior members of our staff. It has been great to see other team members develop.
I’m proud of the fact that we have always been at the forefront at what we do. We’ve always tried to innovate and pioneer new ways of doing things. I think we’ve been recognized more recently.
Without sounding arrogant, I think people have caught up to our way of thinking. In the past we were just seen as these a bit technical, geeky, web, digital. But now digital is cool, now the world has become digital and people are like ”oh those guys were alright”. We’ve kind of just been doing our own thing. We’ve stuck to our guns, and always done what we thought was right and I’m quite proud of that. We’ve never been sueezed to do what other people are doing.
What/who/what agencies inspire you?
I see a lot in the advertising world. Actually we were sitting there at some awards event –James and I, and we looked at each other and said, ”do you like anything?” I guess I saw one or two things that made me slightly jealous and made me go ”oh that’s cool, I wish I had done that”.
I think, looking outside, what inspires us are people, the way the embrace and the way they change. I don’t think we’re here to change people, but to inspire people to keep on doing more of what they already do.
So the way that people sit here with their devices in their pockets, the way they consume, the way they watch television, see social media, the web. I get on a plane and I’m really interested by the behaviour by how do they treat me?

Sofia Strömberg, Head of School Berghs, Daniel Bonner, Chief Creative Officer AKQA London/Europe and Pär Lager, CEO Berghs are planning the future.
What has inspires you from what you’ve seen of Berghs so far?
Berghs won our Cannes Future Lions School of the Year last year, and the guys did the entry with the Fortum Active, the gym.
This is a part of AKQA London/Europe are spreading our wings a bit. The resources of talent have grown pretty dry in the UK. London's a big hub and a lot of companies and businesses there. We find ourselves more and more spreading out and looking in different countries and centers.
Future Lions was set up to sproaden the net, to see not only who the students are, but where they’re studying and if there is a pattern. And there is a pattern. You guys, Miami Ad School, there aren’t many, but you do tend to get clusters of you can see where the talents start to lie.
This has been interesting for us and it’s all part of a longer journey of trying to connect more directly with where the centers of talent are. To be efficient with our resources and our time, you’ve got a school, which obviously has got high standards, and it’s infectious and 97% of your students get jobs, so why shouldn’t we fish where the fish are?

Sofia guiding Daniel Bonner through the school telling him about different student projects.
Susanna Designs Sydney Billboard Campaign
2009-12-01
The former
Berghs Bachelor student Susanna Livijn Wexell’s work is going to attract a new generation of creatives to
Billy Blue College of Design. Susanna has never been afraid of asking questions when she doesn’t understand and has never been afraid of developing her own creative style. Maybe that’s why Billy Blue asked her to design their most recent Sydney billboard campaign.
Sanna helping Billy Blue College of Design to grow down in Sydney's metro.
Susanna did her first semester of her Bachelor Degree at Berghs School of Communication. ”The semester at Berghs opened up my eyes to a field that I wasn’t that familiar with beforehand.” After Berghs, Susanna continued her studies at Billy Blue College of Design where she found the graphic design focus that she was looking for.
In 2010, Billy Blue College of Design in Sydney launches four new programs. In total, six-fulltime programs run alongside a number of part-time courses. Apart from the already established Communication Design and Digital Media Design, the school launches Brand Fashion, Commercial Interior, Residential Interior and Branded Environment early next year.

Sanna playing around in Sydney's metro.
The Sydney-school asked former Berghs Bachelor student and recently graduated Billy Blue-student Susanna Livijn Wexell, to present and promote the programs in a Sydney-underground billboard campaign.
“I wanted to inform people about Billy Blue and its programs, but in a discrete way so that you have to reflect upon what you see.” Only one month from the day she got the task from Billy Blue’s marketing department, Susanna’s billboards were up in Sydney’s metro train stations. “I worked so hard to create this campaign. I pretty much locked myself into my room to create models with a million things everywhere.”
Sanna worked very dedicatedly with all the components to her billboard campaign.
The concept came from a competition submission that Susanna created for the 2009 Billy Blue College prospectus, which she also worked on (but this time with classmate Daniel Sammut.)
Sanna plays with a red thread.
“We wanted to express Billy Blue as a concept. The red thread is symbolizing Billy Blue connecting us all, yet we’re all different individuals with different creative approaches.” Billy Blue liked the concept and asked Susanna to develop it for their billboard campaign.
Susanna’s idea contains four-letter words expressing the six different programs. “I wanted to make the billboard campaign fun and playful. After all, Billy Blue’s target audience is rather young; most of the students come straight from high school.”
Susanna studies Communication Design, represented in the campaign by the word “show”.
The other courses are described, each with their own word:
Digital Media Design: “move”
Commercial Interior: “plan”
Branded Environment : "feel"
Susanna asked multimedia student Leila Khiev for help to render the Digital Media Design billboard. “I wanted the image to be rendered professionally so that a potential student would look at the billboard and think ‘I want to be able to do that too’.”
Why Berghs Bachelor and why Billy Blue?
At Billy Blue the students work close to the industry integrating real life with schoolwork. “If you want to work with students from other programs you can, but it’s not as developed here as it is at Berghs”, Susanna explains. “The most positive aspect about having studied in Australia is that I’ve found my own style. Perhaps studying in Sweden naturally leads to you being molded into that typically Scandinavian minimalistic sense of design and style.”
At Billy Blue there are students from all over the world. The many different backgrounds are an enriching side of studying abroad, according to Susanna. “Here I feel I can explore more than I think I would have if I had studied at some design school in Sweden. You get a lot of multicultural inspiration at Billy Blue thanks to students from all over the world.”
There’s a difference in between schoolwork and the industry, Susanna states. “Last semester I did an internship at Debaser Design Studio, which focuses on the music industry. I worked on cd-covers, posters, logos for bands and such, which was a great way to get real-life experience. Thanks to that internship I feel more prepared to enter the work force.” Susanna will be going back to Sweden soon and is excited to start working in design.
Susanna says you get the most out of your studies with personal dedication and interest. “Before Billy Blue I had barely opened InDesign, for example.” Looking at what she has now accomplished. “I realize I’ve learnt a whole lot since I got here.”
Buns and Berghs for WaterAid’s board
2009-11-24
This morning, WaterAid's board got more than cinnamon buns to their coffee at the board meeting. They got to meet the Berghs team who won first prize in Brand X 2009 for national brief. The winning team's concept involves sponsorship and toilets – better hygiene and sanitation for people in need.
The winning film (in Sweden) national brief: "The sponsorship toilet – save someone in need"."We started off by talking a little bit about our approach to the brief and then we presented the campain similarly to how we did at Karonlinska on the Brand X-project’s last day. We focused on the sponsorship activities and the sanitation issue”, says Canan Yasar, who studies Strategic Communication and Pr and is one of the proud members of the winning team.
After the presentation, which took place at WaterAid Sweden’s office at Skeppsbron in Gamla Stan, the curious board members had many questions to the group.
“They want us to develop our idea further and come up with a solution to how this can be applied to reality”, tells Canan. “We want to investigate how to keep costs down and who would like to help in different ways, become ambassadors and so on.”
The students are kept busy at Berghs with all their different projects but this is their “baby”. “We will prioritize this particular project in our spare time. It’s such an important issue and we manage to implement it in a light and sensible manner”, says Canan.
The group is extra proud to win Brand X, which is one of the greatest yearly integrated projects at Berghs, when all the full time students are working together in teams. Canan and the rest of the team will put their energy on the sponsorship toilet-campaign. “This spring WaterAid wants to meet again and we will then present how the sponsorship toilet will save people in need – for real.”
Read more about
Brand X 2009.
See all the films
here.
Group 11 members:
Petra Qvist, Production Management – Operative Project Management
Annica Sandh, Marketing Communication
Canan Yasar, Strategic Communication and Public Relations
Tobias Fant, Interactive Communication – Web Strategist
Mattias Johansson Räms, Graphic Design
Joakim Hanspers, Advertising – Copywriter
¡Mateo markets Madrid!
2009-11-23
Cristina Mateo from the organization
Fundación Madrid Ciudad Global 2010, wants Madrid to become Europe's third leading city after London and Paris. At Berghs she spoke about
place branding, about the usage of brands in the marketing of places and vice versa.
Cristina Mateo from the media and communications department at the Madrid organisation will coordinate Madrid's presence at the
World Expo in Shanghai 2010. For the first time ever, not only countries may display at the exposition, but also especially chosen cities, Madrid being amongst the chosen ones.
"Thanks to a promotion tour in Asia in 2005, which was a cooperation between City of Madrid and our famous football team
Real Madrid, Madrid established itself as as a stronger brand in China and Japan."
Cristina Mateo means that a place can be associated with a brand from the place or the other way around. As an example she brings up the Swedish brand Ikea.
”In Spain, Ikea markets itself with the phrase ¡Viva la República Independiente de tu Casa!, or 'the independent republic of your home'. This implies something positive to most Spaniards, and as they know Ikea is Swedish, Sweden is associated to the positive message that Ikea conveys".
Mateo talked about the interplay between perception and reality. "A message doesn't necessarily have to be true, but it builds people's perception, which either gets reinforced or wither when reality plays in."
Students stars at Estrella
2009-10-29
This year’s brief came from the Swedish potato chips company
Estrella. Established in Sweden in the 1950’s, the company wanted Berghs’ students to redesign and thus reposition their brand. Packaging, store presence and Internet, were the three main channels for the project called “Estrella is all around”.
The students certainly delivered ideas that made Estrella appear more innovative and more fun, as well as more attractive – exactly according to the brief.
The jury watching one of the eleven case films.
The eleven case films demonstrated ideas involving packages with zip locks, handles, piña colada-flavoured dip sauces, not to mention the Iphone applications and imaginary potato lands. See all the case films here (only in Swedish).

2009 Re:Design Award’s jury consisted of:
Sara Larsdotter, Estrella
Nils Jensen, Jensen Pamp McCann
Jens Pamp, Jensen Pamp McCann
Anna Oddbjörn, Winner of Re:Design Award 2008
Sofia Strömberg, Berghs School of Communication
Mikael Storåkers, Storåkers McCann
The jury had a tough time to unite for a decision. Mikeal Storåkers from Storåkers McCann said “It was hard because they held a very good and even quality all the way through. There was a wild debate in the jury!”
Finally the jury came to a decision. 2009 year’s winner of Re:Design Award was announced: Group 6 – “It’s all potato”. The group members Emma Hammer and Fred Malmros from the Production Management – Operative Project Management class, and Nanna Englund and Henric Bergström from the Graphic Design class were happy and excited about the award.
“It’s all potato”-group member Nanna Englund excplaims “We really believed in our idea and we had a vision: to go one step further. I feel we really got our message across. I’m so happy!”
Their idea was totally focusing on the raw material – the potato. The packaging featured a potato, shaped like a potato and the group had carefully investigated the possibilities to even make the bag out of potato starch!
The group brought in help from their friend Mattias Carlsson to deliver their message. Watch the winning case film below (in Swedish).
Watch the other case films here (only in Swedish).
Sara Larsdotter from Estrella was overly impressed by the students’ work. “You took the essence of the only thing we actually make at Estrella – the potato – and made something great out of something so simple.”
Pål Pettersson, Program Director Graphic Design, says about the project, “This is an excellent opportunity to work in the way which is Berghs’ strength, i.e. integrated and close to reality”.
The winning team receives a travel scholarship from Jensen Pamp McCann, which is likely to go to Berlin this year. “Berlin is a city of our time, a great source of inspiration in design and communication”, says Mats Dafnäs from Jensen Pamp McCann.
“It’s all potato”-member and Graphic Design student Henric Bergström hadn’t gotten enough of Estrella’s brand. On Monday he starts a five-week internship at Jensen Pamp McCann. “Re:Design was just the warm-up. Now I’m ready to start working with it in real life.”

The winning team: Henric Bergström, Nanna Englund and Fred Malmros with Mats Dafnäs from Jensen Pamp McCann. (Missing team member: Emma Hammer)
The winning team getting personal feedback from Estrella's Sara Larsdotter.
Many people came to Berghs' Bar and Re:Design Award.
Charlotta Rydholm, Program Director Production Management – Operative Project Management, Sofia Strömberg, Berghs' Head of School and Hannes Kerstell, Program Director Strategic Communication and Public Relations eating chips and discussing the students' product concepts.
Busy night at Berghs' Bar.
Pär Lager, Berghs' CEO, Barbro Ohlsson-Smith, Ohlssonsmith och Pål Pettersson, Program Director Graphic Design mingling at Berghs Bar.
Watch all the case films
here (only in Swedish).
International Evening Mingling
2009-10-28
Stockholm was dark and cold on that October evening. But not for the ones who came through the doors at Sveavägen 34. Current and former students were mingling with the curious visitors who had come to Berghs’ International Evening.
Former Bachelor students Sara Boork and Fanny Källström were “present” on web camera from USA during the evening. Sara and Fanny chose to go to San Fransisco after their first semester at Berghs, to study fashion and graphic design at
Academy of Art University.
Bachelor teacher Clas von Sydow distributing the word to the ones who wanted to ask questions to Berghs Bachelor students in San Fransisco.Inspiring talks were part of the evening, which offered a special international touch thanks to the visiting Australian students from
Edith Cowan University in Perth. The six Australian students are on a two-week visit to Stockholm to join Berghs Bachelor on this year’s Brand X-project.
Berghs BachelorBegin your undergraduate studies at Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm and finish your Bachelor’s degree in Australia or USA. A Bachelor’s degree is the English-speaking world’s equivalent to a Swedish fil. kand., and requires three to four years of academic studies. Berghs School of Communication offers two Bachelor programs: A Bachelor of Communications and a Bachelor of Design. Read more
here.
Manhattan Monkeys – All The Way From Berghs
2009-10-27
After graduation from Berghs School of Communication’s Advertising Program, life took a pretty spectacular turn for Erik Högfeldt and Rasmus Keger. Before they knew it, both were employed at New York agencies that most of us could only dream of.
Erik had no idea what the future would hold for him when he first walked through the doors to Berghs School of Communication on that August day in 2007. At the school’s Advertising Program, Erik met a group of guys who became his classmates and best friends.
Two years later, after many hours of hard work and several awards, 23-year old Erik Högfeldt works as a copywriter at
Droga 5 on team with Berghs-mate Petter Hernmarck. At
R/GA New York you find art director Rasmus Keger and Axel Lindgren, whereas
Camp David employed Gustav Johansson as movie-director.
What happened?“I had a kind of obsessed idea that I was going to work with finance,” Erik says. “Luckily I didn’t pursue that stupidity. I realized I’m actually a creative. I had a talent for putting names to things.”
Through a friend Erik discovered advertising. “As a copywriter I can get the best of two worlds: coming up with creative ideas and then selling them for money.”
What did you both get out of your two years at Berghs?“Everything to the max!” Rasmus exclaims. “Including all the hours we spent working at different projects nighttime, I think we actually did a three-year program at Berghs!”
At Berghs, Erik and Rasmus met a whole lot of inspiring people; three of them were Axel Lindgren, Petter Hernmarck and Gustav Johansson. Instantly the guys formed a team that was going to be more successful than what they could have ever imagined.
A Success StoryOne Show, Clio, D&AD, YCN, Young Guns of the Month and Cannes Future Lions nominated several Berghs teams for their
groundbreaking ideas in 2009. The ‘Erik-Rasmus-Axel-Petter-Gustav-quintet’ was particularly successful and Erik explains why. “It’s all about meeting people that think differently from you. Our strength as a team was that we were all good at different things, and we raised each others’ performance levels.”
Erik adds that a combination of a good program and a personal interest, lead to the greatest results. “A school can only train you to a certain degree, then you must seek knowledge yourself in order to develop.”

What makes you successful in your creative work?“We know to kill the bad ideas and move forward with the good ones. We’ve learned not to waste time on things that won’t show results anyway.”
At Berghs the team tried to be open with their ideas and invite people in. “The end-result is going to be a whole lot greater if you’re in a team, each person with different talents and opinions”, Erik states. And the team certainly got to share the joy of great result.
How important were the rewards for your careers? “I knew early on in the program that I wanted to go to the US to work. Participating in different competitions was a part of the plan – to get to the US“, Erik says. “The prizes certainly have opened up doors to us.”
After the
Berghs’ students’ 2009 One Show College Competition success in particular, more people are familiar with Berghs School of Communication abroad. “Berghs’ problem is that ‘Berghs’ is hard to pronounce in English!” Rasmus laughs.
The young men have found that they’ve got a lot in common with other Swedes in New York’s advertising industry. “Many of the Swedes who work here started out at Berghs.”

What do you get to do at work?“The main reason we were employed here, is that the clients request the kind of digital, interactive stuff that we do well. We’ve been working on the greatest accounts ever since arrival. “
The Droga 5 office in New York has less than 70 people in-house. “Our agencies are rather spoiled with young talents since they’re so high up on the list of young creatives’ desired working places”, Erik says. Both Droga 5 and R/GA have showed great examples of innovative campaigns over the past years. “Their untraditional methods are so exciting in themselves.”
How do you deal with the pressure to deliver now that you’re there?Rasmus says, “If there’s one thing we’ve learned during our two years at Berghs, it’s that you don’t come up with any great ideas if you just think about how nervous you are NOT to come up with a great idea. Sometimes you do yourself a favor by taking a walk or actually going to sleep, so that you can see things clearer the following morning”.
The delightfully abrupt end to the summer came when the guys flew to New York to show their portfolios. “Two hours after landing we were pitching ideas at Droga 5. We never even got a chance to get nervous”, Erik explains.
They both highlight the importance of being humble. “You’ve got to find a balance in between knowing your spot and respecting the people in the industry. But, at the same time you must ‘disrespectfully’ just go in there and share your ideas. You can’t be scared of doing that, even if you’re the youngest or least experienced in the company.”
Wieden+Kennedy Recruits Spunky Swede
2009-10-27
Ebba Hult hadn’t even completed her two-year Advertising program at Berghs when the job-offers came rolling in. Wieden+Kennedy were smart enough to pinch this twenty-three year old talent before somebody else did.
The Amsterdam office where Ebba works as copywriter for the global firm employs 130 people from 25 different countries. “I think agencies today must recognize young talents. And as long as you work hard, age doesn’t matter.”
Placing Ebba On The MapEbba grew up in a small town two hours south of Stockholm. At an early age, Ebba knew what she wanted to achieve, and her town of 5000 people just wasn’t the place for it. Ebba took a job at the local supermarket, which allowed her to learn languages and explore the world.
After gaining experience through internships at Swedish firms such as Storåkers McCann, Ebba knew she wanted to become a copywriter. Her choice of school fell on Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm.
One Of The Most Driven And Ambitious Talents AroundBerghs really is quite a small school compared to the internationally known names such as Miami Ad School. Ebba says “This might sound cocky, but agencies do themselves a favor by keeping an eye on Berghs. Berghs trains some of the most driven and ambitious talents around.”
Ebba explains Berghs students’ high standards by the fact that it’s rather hard to be accepted into the program. “To get into Berghs, you must show your skills in a portfolio, plus you get interviewed by the practicing professionals who teach at Berghs.”
For two years, copywriters and art directors in Berghs’ Advertising program work together. During her first year, Ebba did a 3-week internship as a copy at Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam. Then, while Ebba was on summer break from Berghs, Wieden got her temporarily back on the team.

“Swedish Nobody” Becomes “International Somebody”During her second year at Berghs, Ebba won the
Swedish Association of Communication Agencies Scholarship. This enabled Ebba to attend the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival and the Roger Hautchel Academy in Cannes.
Wieden+Kennedy+Ebba = True“It’s great that you can get an award for creativity. For me, competing during school was a way to get a job at one of the international agencies.” All the hard work paid off when Ebba received job offers from several international agencies, even before graduation. The already established relationship with Wieden+Kennedy made them win her back on board.
What’s the Ebba Hult key to success? Ebba explains that she wants to create ads that she herself likes. “At Berghs we really learned how to engage our audience rather than merely instruct.” And what Ebba creates, people want to be part of.
“Even though I’m a copywriter, I also learned how to think as a planner at Berghs.” Ebba believes one of her strengths is that she has a totality to her creative thinking. “Sometimes we collaborated with students from the other disciplines but we always had to develop our own strategies when getting a brief.”

Swedishness Is CrazinessAt the Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam office Ebba gets to work with big clients: Nike, Coca Cola, Honda, Nokia, Heineken and Lego, to name a few. “The greatest difference in working for an international firm, as opposed to a Swedish one, is that you have to find truths and insights that everybody can relate to. I know how Swedes think, so in Sweden it’s easier to be crazy when creating advertising.” However, Ebba reckons that being a Swede is an asset in the industry. “Swedes have a good reputation abroad, we’re good at digital and we work hard.”
Berghs’ Concept: A Win-WinCannes Future Lions named Berghs 2009 “School of the year” and Ebba can see why. “Berghs shouldn’t change much in order to keep that position. Its reputation will continue to grow if the school keeps its winning concept.”
While at school, Berghs students work with some of the most well-respected professionals. Industry representatives lecture at Berghs allowing today’s practitioners to keep an eye on tomorrow’s. Thus, the cleverest firms recruit promising students even before they graduate from Berghs.
Ebba Of TomorrowWho knows what the future holds for this young lady? She likes Holland. “Amsterdam is like a soft mix of my tiny home town and a metropolitan city.” The American firm makes Ebba curious to work in the US one day, but she also wants to get to know the Asian markets. “Language wise, Asia might be hard, but familiarizing yourself with different markets and different ways of working is really rewarding.”
It’s impossible to miss this miss’ spark. Her funky attitude and crazy ideas can take her anywhere. From the Swedish ‘nowhere’, via Berghs, to one of the greatest agencies in the world. As for the future, we’d be delighted to get her back to Berghs one day, training tomorrow’s communicators – and the cycle can continue.
Alan Webber meets Berghs
2009-10-01
Alan Webber, the founder of the world’s leading business magazine
Fast Company, visited Berghs to discuss communication. The award-winning editor, author and columnist made a quick stop in Sweden to launch his book ‘Rule of Thumb’. He prioritized Berghs School of Communication for a lecture and said “this is an enormous treat for me”.
Alan states that there’s a cross-generation mentor process happening in communication. “I learn a lot from 23-25 year olds. I have a mentor who’s 24 years old. She teaches me social media and I teach her entrepreneurship.”
Mr Webber shared his rules of thumb with the participating Berghs students. “Everything communicates. You’ll gain admiration, respect and attention if you know what you communicate”, Alan says. “But knowing it ain’t the same as doing it. Your reality-based learning-style at Berghs is why you’re going to get so good at it.”
After his hour-long speech, Berghs’ Head of School Sofia Strömberg and Alan involved the students’ in an open forum. “That’s why I’m here – to learn stuff from you. I want to take your opinions and ideas home with me.”
Berghs wins gold galore – more gold at D&AD
2009-07-03
Gold at One Show, gold at Client Pitch, gold at Clio Awards, gold at Cannes Lions and yet more gold at D&AD last night. This year Berghs School of Communication brought home a grand slam by winning each and every existing international communications contest.
“We’re ecstatic! We’ve worked so hard at Berghs, spent lots of late nights in the studio. And now all our hard work has paid off,” says Therese Jonsson, Berghs student whose project won two silver medals at D&AD.
The widely respected D&AD contest was established in 1962. It aimed to set standards for the industry and celebrate creative communication. Each year contestants from all over the world submit more than 25,000 entries in a bid to win the prestigious prize – a statue of a larger-than-life pen. Berghs School of Communication won a total of eight prizes at the awards ceremony in London.
Students Harri Leppäla and Petra Muda were selected as “Student of the Year” and won first prize for their project for ebay, the online auction site. Their assignment was to communicate how ebay projects it brand promise: “Shopping worth talking about.” The students based their presentation on the idea that much of what one encounters every day is desirable. Prospective shoppers simply photograph the objects their desire and send the photos to “Find it” on ebay which quickly helps them find what they’re looking for.
“Not only do we effectively communicate ebay’s brand promise, we even succeeded in developing their offering,” says Petra Muda, recently graduated art director from Berghs.
Click to see Petra Muda and Harri Leppälä’s winning idea for ebay.Student of the year:Petra Muda, Harri Leppälä
First prize:Hampus Mattson, David Lundgren, Johan Riddarström (Integrated - Blyk)
Petra Muda, Harri Leppälä (Viral - eBay)
Second prize:Therese Jonsson, Magnus Ivansson (What else do you do)
Therese Jonsson, Tor Lemhag & Harri Leppälä (What else do you do)
Petter Hernmarck, Gustav Johansson & Erik Högfeldt (Viral - eBay)
Commendation:José Hernandez, Anna Oddbjörn, Tor Lemhag (What else do you do)
Gustaf Jonsson (Online brand channel - Youtube)