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Q&A with Cut&Paste Chicago’s Lucas Buick
4/2/2009 1:15 PM By AriIt'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:
Q&A with Cut&Paste Chicago’s Lucas Buick — Part IV
3/26/2009 1:39 PM By AriCut&Paste Chicago is right around the corner but we have more behind-the-scenes chatter to share with you from Lucas Buick, the founder/creative director of design company Synthetic Infatuation and the Chicago design ambassador for the Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament 2009. It's getting down to the wire and if you haven't gotten your tickets yet to the event, go get them now so you're not shut out. And you'll save $5 off the entry. You don't want to miss this fast-paced design event where 16 designers compete in 2D, 3D, and Motion Graphics events.
Artisan: If each event is 3.5 hours do the competitors get any breaks — or is it just straight-up designing?
Lucas Buick: No no, it's 15-minute rounds at a time. It's in heats of four and then winners move on. The semi finals — the final four battle for 15 minutes and the judges then pick the final two to move on to the finals where it's a final 15-minute head-to-head. The event will be a 2D competition and then the 3D folks to their first round and we go back to the 2D folks and it goes like that. Then the Motion Graphics people finish and will be able to reveal what they've done and get judged.
Artisan: How many people usually show up to the events?
Lucas Buick: We're at the Congress Theatre this year — we have a huge venue in comparison to the other shows. We're expecting between 1,200 and 1,500 folks to come out. Tickets are $15 online and $20 at the door but there are group discounts. In the past, it was held at Crobar (2006) and that got filled to capacity. In 2007 it was moved to Logan Square auditorium. Then in 2008 there wasn't a tour.
Q&A with C&P’s Lucas Buick — Part III
3/23/2009 9:23 AM By AriWe're back with Part III of our chat with Lucas Buick, the founder/creative director of design company Synthetic Infatuation and the Chicago design ambassador for the Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament 2009. Do you have your tickets yet? You better hurry if you want to save some coin on the entry fee. Don't get shut out either — the event at the Congress Theatre on April 4 will likely sell out and you don't want to miss the excitement as 16 competitors go head-to-head in 2D, 3D and Motion Graphics events. Be sure to return to our blog every few days to read more of our interview with Lucas Buick — and find out what goes on at the event!
Artisan: You mentioned that you love the idea of bringing the design community together — how to you go about doing that?
Lucas Buick: I go to art openings and talk to people and through things like AIGA (the professional association for design) we reach out that way. I've been able to work with a group in Wicker Park called the Movement and we're putting on a preview show the Sunday before Cut&Paste in the basement of Crocodile and showcase past contestants in the bar so people can see what it's all about.
Artisan: Who gets to participate and why are they chosen?
Lucas Buick: Everyone submits their portfolio or website through our website and we make selections from there. We invite people to come in and do a test round. We're looking for not only for people who can do great work but we have to test them so they can do [design] in 15 minutes. What we're asking them to do is sort of ridiculous. Nobody gives you 15 minutes to design a product. A large thing what we look for is are they comfortable doing that in front of people and can they put on a show? This is really entertainment — they have to entertain the crowd. Is their process interesting? Will it translate on the screen?
Artisan: What's the vibe during the event — is it more Britney's Circus Tour or WWF?
Lucas Buick: [Laughs.] It's a little bit of everything actually — it's the WWF for the art geek community. It's very over the top. There are cameras everywhere. The competitors [computer] screens are projected on large screens behind them. There's a DJ spinning and an over the top MC talking about what's going on. It's a party atmosphere. It's 21 and over so people are drinking and hanging out. There's also an audience competition where they can attempt their own 15-minute challenge. It's definitely Britney meets WWF.
Cut & Paste: Learn More Here!
3/16/2009 6:15 PM By Sharon PotschHave you attended a Cut & Paste before? Trust me, the summer Olympics have nothing over seeing a row of graphic and web designers sweat. Our guest writer Ari will be featuring a small series of blog posts talking about this year’s Cut & Paste event on April 6, 2009. You know the saying—be there or be square.
Designers: Signing up for Cut & Paste?
1/23/2009 7:56 AM By Sharon PotschIf you've seen Cut & Paste in action before, you know it's an event not to be missed. But like most fun things in life, it's much more fun to be a participant than watching from the sidelines. Today's the last day to sign up for 2009's Cut & Paste event. If you want to register, do it before midnight tonight.
