La Vagabond.

Another happy Fredag at work today! I seriously love this job so much. It’s always so much fun and I’m always excited to head to the office. I never thought I’d be paid to do what I love. But I guess that’s why I pursued this field right? Anywho today the director and the senior graphic designer went to meet with a client, he’s an ice cream shop owner and he assigned a branding project for us. He’s paying us through ice cream. We got to sample lakrids, green tea, strawberry and vanilla. Now that its been 2 weeks working at Seidenfaden I feel more certain about my career goals, I’m positive that this is the right path for me and that I want to do this for the rest of my life.

Just another day of branding research, so excited for this project!

Happy Fredag! Today was Jonas’ fodseldagen! He’s the director of Seidenfaden Design, we had wine and pastries at the office to celebrate. It was a chill day at the office. We did some brainstorming for a new product in the making. The focus was a wooden toy design. We wanted to create a new toy that represented danish design, somehow it lead to the creative director wanting to design sex toys…

On another note, I finished my first design project! I had to create a two page leaflet for Osti and their new cheese knife. 

I seriously love working at Seidenfaden. I love everyone at the office, the environment is so relaxed and everyone’s very outgoing. I’m going to miss Copenhagen so much… I never thought I’d be paid to do what I love and to work in an amazing city in a foreign country. This all still feels like a dream. I feel really fortunate having this opportunity.. I hope it’ll be my ticket to bring me back to Denmark in the future…

Yet another filming opportunity comes my way, this time I got to be part of a music video with s!vas. As usual I didn’t know what they were saying but it was still an amazing experience. It took place in a warehouse in Vesterbro. After 13 takes, the song got stuck in my head. They sang about California and Obama.

A few months ago, I was invited to be part of a live audience at a danish comedy show, Bad News with Anders Mad Lundsen. I have to say it was still pretty awesome even though I didn’t know what they were saying. It was pretty cool to see the behind the scenes of what it’s like to shoot a television show. 

First day of work as a graphic design intern at Seidenfaden Design was awesome! I love my boss, Wakana Sakihama as well as the rest of the design crew at the office. There wasn’t too much work today since its my first day, I was assigned to design the leaflet for Oski’s new knives and sketching some branding concepts for an ice cream shop in Aarhus, Ishhuset. I really love the working environment here, all day they played some of my favorite bands including modest mouse. Aside from getting paid, the firm also feeds me, there was so much food today. Shrimp potato salad, chicken, pasta and so much more. Though I spent all day on the computer, my eyes were pretty tired but this is the kind of work I love doing. Today has reaffirmed my dream of being a graphic designer in the future… Jeg elsker design, jeg elsker københavn…

As studio draws to a close, DIS held a BBQ to celebrate, there were moments of saying good bye to people. It felt strange how I’ll probably never see these people again after befriending them for the past four months, the idea hasn’t sunk into my mind yet. On another note, the BBQ did not disappoint. There was not only sausages but STEAK I haven’t had steak since Prague? That was pretty much the highlight of my meal since steak’s my favorite food. I was pretty fulfilled at the end, dessert would’ve been nice but I’m not gonna complain too much.

Tour of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

What I do instead of finals…