Flexing my Design Muscles for Saturday’s Cut & Paste Tryout

Posted on February 25, 2009 at 2:02am

What a great night! It’s now the early hours after Shrove Tuesday, and after a pleasant evening at my friend’s house getting full on pancakes, I returned home to find an email from Cut & Paste letting me know that I’ve been accepted for an audition to enter into the main London competition round!

For those of you who don’t know what Cut & Paste is, it’s a design competition taking place in 16 cities across the world in which 2D, 3D and Motion designers battle it out in 15 minute create-from-scratch rounds in front of judges and a crowd of fans and well-wishers. Over a few stages, the contestants eventually get whittled down to one grand winner (for each category), who — along with receiving some sweet prizes — gets a place to compete against the other 15 winners in a global final in New York.

So, I’ve been given the theme for Saturday’s audition, I’m coming up with ideas, and I’m having a go at some speed sessions in Illustrator. I’m down to 30 minutes to get from blank page to presentable design, so I’ve just got 3½ days to knock 10 minutes off my time now…

Categories: Competition, Graphic Design, Illustration, Illustrator, Personal.