Design a day. Day 8

Day 8 of the new decade is coming to an end... Actually it's three hours already is it's day 9 here, so here comes my new design for design something a day... This time it's something inspired by a number of things, ranging from a book by a Scandinavian writer I used to read when working in a language school and finishing with a tune by Wham! that was playing in a taxi on a way back home...