A few weeks ago, a lector from my previous school told me he nominated me for the Febelgra prize in Belgium. Febelgra is a federation of Belgian graphical companies, and each year they nominate potential talent within the graphical industry. The four nominees who all studieds at Artevelde College, had to do a presentation for the jury. And since I’m still in Sweden, I did this via a video-conference with Skype, and a computer in Belgium I could control from Sweden using iChat and MobileMe.

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My dear neighbor Alexander Strand Kristensen and me have been having a small verbal prank war going on since Hyper Island put us so close to each other. Over the passed few months, an occasional ‘You suck!’ became mandatory as well as more diverse expressions such as ‘Sucker!’, ‘You suck more man!’, ‘You sucky sucker!’, and more of these nice and friendly conversations became a daily habit.
But yesterday, our prank war went  to the next level. I was rather surprised when I saw that my friend Alex had changed my desktop wallpaper to this typographic and esthetically correct piece of art. I must say I was rather pleased more than insulted. None the less, this means the game is on, the war has begun, the battle shall start! Prepare yourself Alex!

Yesterday we did a photo shoot of our entire class. Every person had to do a happy, angry and sad face. The pictures were taken by Lasse and Azin, and they did a great job. Here’s a quick movie, hopefully the picture will be available soon.

At Hyper, we learn to work on several different projects at the same time, by having a major project running while lectures give us smaller projects. Our major project at this moment is improving IKEA for the next coming years. We have seven weeks to finish this projects, and at this moment only 3 weeks are left. While this project is running, we have the chance to attend several lectures on the material we’re learning within this module. These projects don’t mean to be big or impressive, but should express the fact that we learned something new, and understand the things we’re learning. Here are two examples of such projects.

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