Q&A with Cut&Paste Chicago’s Lucas Buick

It's the final stretch before Cut&Paste Chicago on April 2 — we're freaking out. Can you tell how excited we are about the event? If you still haven't gotten your tickets, you better pray there are some left — go online now and get yours. Don't wait — you don't want to miss this one-time-a-year competition. How else are you going to know that you want to try and participate next year if you have no idea what goes on? Well, here to tell us a bit more in the fifth and final segment of our interview, is Lucas Buick, the founder/creative director of design company Synthetic Infatuation and the Chicago design ambassador for the Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament 2009. Seriously, when you're done reading, go buy your tickets.

Artisan: So, after multiple rounds and a winner is announced in each category, what happens when it's all done?
Lucas Buick: The winner is crowned with an actual crown or tiara, the winners get prizes — anything ranging from new laptops to software to design ephemera. The winner of each city in each category will fly to New York in June and take on the rest of the world. Each of the 17 cities will fly into New York in June for the Global Championships. I think the prize is a new workstation from Apple, software, a new library from Pantone — things like that. Wacom is a big sponsor as well and the winner will get a Cintiq screen where you can draw on.

Artisan: Who judges the event?
Lucas Buick: Our judges are the esteemed panel from all the design studios and ad agencies from here in Chicago.

To learn more about the judges, visit the Cut&Paste website for each category:

• 2D Design
• 3D Design 
• Motion Design

Tags: Cut & Paste, Industry Trends

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