Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament 2007 from Cut&Paste on Vimeo

Humans team up with machines to battle face to face in the Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament. Designers meet in fifteen minute rounds with some prepared elements. Like most forms of expression, hip hop culture has officially infiltrated the world of design. In the glorified tradition of MC's and B-boys, graphic artists take stage in front of large crowds to exhibit their skills on the fly. Design and battle are an odd juxtaposition, you can't really judge style points on mouse clicks and key commands, but Cut&Paste is on its fifth year and running.

The event began in New York in 2005 attracting a fairly promising 800 person crowd...five years later the tournament has announced its 2009 world tour. With dates in North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific, there's a chance you may be within traveling distance to witness a visual communication battle of epic proportions. Most of the deadlines are fast approaching or have already passed, but it's never too late to start practicing your freestyle graphics.

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Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament 2007 from Cut&Paste on Vimeo

Humans team up with machines to battle face to face in the Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament. Designers meet in fifteen minute rounds with some prepared elements. Like most forms of expression, hip hop culture has officially infiltrated the world of design. In the glorified tradition of MC’s and B-boys, graphic artists take stage in front of large crowds to exhibit their skills on the fly. Design and battle are an odd juxtaposition, you can’t really judge style points on mouse clicks and key commands, but Cut&Paste is on its fifth year and running.

The event began in New York in 2005 attracting a fairly promising 800 person crowd…five years later the tournament has announced its 2009 world tour. With dates in North America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific, there’s a chance you may be within traveling distance to witness a visual communication battle of epic proportions. Most of the deadlines are fast approaching or have already passed, but it’s never too late to start practicing your freestyle graphics.

posted by: Scott Starrett

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  1. Sam says:
    February 12, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    There’s a similar more lo-fi version of this idea you can watch every Friday on the web: Layer Tennis. http://www.layertennis.com/

  2. Frodo says:
    June 10, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    I usually don’t post in blogs but your blog forced me to, amazing work.. beautiful !

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