Last week's been somewhat busy. Here's what kept me from writing:

The type workshop kept me quite busy. We got a new assignment on Monday: cut up one of the letters of 'your' font into nine pieces and create a new typeface with them. For this I was teamed up with Linn, a swedish girl specialized in illustration. After taking two days of deciding on the letter and the way to cut it up we thought it was better to split for creating the font itself. I think you'll figure why from the results (above). Tomorrow I'll try and post some of the other group's finals. Working so hard on this thing kept me from continuing my big illustration project, which I was supposed to finish next Tuesday. Luckily I was able to talk to my teacher and am now able to send via e-mail. Phew! But that's DKDS.

As part of the workshop we also got to listen to a lecture by Bo Linnemann, one of the leading danish typographers and founder of Kontrapunkt. He and his staff have actually worked for quite a few big companies (Carlsberg, Microsoft, Danske Bank etc.) and created their share of type faces. Most famous probably being Kontrapunkt Font, which you can download for free here. Although I don't like all of his stuff, it is quite impressive how productive this guy is. On this occasion I was also able to watch the Helvetica movie again, which one of our teachers had organized. A thing I forgot to mention about it last time: it has a very nice soundtrack, which almost by itself makes the film worth seeing.

And: Last Thursday Felix arrived! Hooray, first visitor from back home! After already having gone to Stockholm and Berlin beforehand, I'm his third and last stop on his visiting-friends-across-europe-for-christmas trip. Since his arrival we've been quite busy:

• Thursday, 9 p.m.: Picking Felix up from the airport.
• Thursday, 11 p.m.: Going to Simon's place to celebrate Sebastian's fake Bar Mitzvah, which was actually just an excuse to get drunk and spend a nice evening with friends, and which meant that in order for Felix and me to catch up to everybody else's alcohol level we had to down several tequila, vodka, absinthe and muskat shots (in that order) in the first half hour. But hey, it worked :) It also led me to finding out that Felix, just like me, is a notorious party smoker...
• Friday, 8 a.m.: After having slept 4 hours and having a massive hang over I had to drag myself to school to print and present my workshop results. Luckily my body seemed to have somehow functioned on autopilot, as I don't remember half of that morning except for feeling miserable and very zombie-ish.
• Friday, 1 p.m.: Getting back home, sleeping for three hours during which Felix discovered Copenhagen for himself.
• Friday, 7 p.m.: Making dinner and calling up some friends to go to Vega for what would turn out to be an amazing night out, but I'll let you read about that in the next post.
• Saturday, 2 p.m.: Having had a good night's sleep, we got up to the sound of many people's voices and the clicking of plastic parts. And suddenly we found ourselves in an assembly line putting bike lights together... Let me explain: Simon and two fellow students had to come up with a good business idea for a university project. The idea was so good, that in fact it is now being realized. To encourage people in Copenhagen to use more bike lights (which is actually a law) in order to prevent accidents at night, they suggested to the city police to give out light's as 'Christmas Gifts' when catching people not using them and fining them 500DKK. These people still have to pay the fine, but at least they get some lights for it. The city is sponsoring the whole thing BUT Simon and his friends had to deliver the lights ready made: equipped with batteries and wrapped as a gift. So now, they had to cut open 2000 packs of bike lights, put batteries into and a ribbon around them. Too much work for three guys alone. So this morning, Sus, Julie, Rebecca, Astrid, Noah, Jonas and a few others came around to help. And at 2 p.m. they had two more guys doing the dirty work :)
• Saturday, 4 p.m.: Going on a quick sight seeing trip to Christiania, and eating some of the best food I know: Strawberry Cakes from Lagkaghuset. I could eat these things all day – if I had the money.
• Sunday, 3 a.m.: After some chilling, a good dinner, playing some Playstation and watching a very confusing movie by the name of A History Of Violence (I think we just didn't get it), Felix has gone to bed and I'm writing this post.

Sorry for this massive amount of text but there was obviously some catching up to do (Falko, I hope you're happy now ;)). Pictures to all this stuff will follow the next couple of days.