One of the less wonderful abilities of devices is distracting school kids from studying. When you add this to the traditional lures that have kept kids away from their books for decades, you have a problem. Swedish agency, Stendahls is fighting fire with fire – or apps with an app for client, Gothenburg Symphony, the national orchestra of Sweden. It has created a fun app that helps children to study better with classical music (and some high jinks).

The app, Octomonk, was designed after consultation with Gunner Bjursell, professor emeritus at Karolinska Institutet and world expert on how music impacts learning. Music, he says, changes and improves your brain and study is best done between periods of rest.

So Octomonk is a video game that lets children structure their study while also helping Octomonk triumph over his nemesis – all while listening to classical music by the Gothenburg Symphony Sweden.

See how it works here:

Credits:

Agency: Stendahls Sweden

Chief Creative Officer: Martin Cedergren
Creative Director: Christer Hedberg
Art Director: Kristian Gonzalez
Copywriter: Matilda Hedberg Dowdle

Original Concept: Per-Filip Bekken, Sofia Jensfelt, Alexander Lindberg & Alexander Närtell
App Developers: Rodrigo Vives  & Thomas Sempf
Illustrator & Animator: Joakim Nilsson

Client: Gothenburg Symphony Sweden
Audience and Business Developer: Eva Essvik
Head of Educational Department: Petra Kloo Vik
Music and Sound Effects: Gothenburg Symphony