'Finish Him!': Cut&Paste Tourney
By Morgan Short, May 21st, 2009 | In Art
MORRRTRTAAALL KOOMBAATT!!!111!
This Saturday, the Cut&Paste Digital Designer tournament will set designer upon designer -- like ravenous dogs -- in a showdown of creative supremacy at the Shanghai Sculpture Space. No quarter asked. None given.
Cut&Paste is a galactically-transpiring, live design tournament featuring competitors in three categories: 2D Design, 3D Design, and Motion Design. They get a fixed amount of time to come up with something and their work is projected on these massive screens for the audience to watch. Some judges will judge the thing, victors will be crowned, losers derided, good times will be had by all. The whole shebang is hosted by MC Tang King and Vivian Tothill. Saucy beats by Kidplastik.
For betting purposes, SmartShanghai wanted to get a look at the contestants at this thing. Here's a random smattering, separated by competing category, along with a little biog action. Many more are competing and not featured herein (16 in all), and they're just as wonderful and talented as these. Good luck to everyone. Eye of the tiger! Take it over the top!
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Weight Class: 2D
Sally Zou
Age: 23Fighting out of: Shanghai, China
Dojo: Wieden+Kennedy, Momorobo
Website: www.momorobo.com
In addition to her full-time gig with Wieden+Kennedy Shanghai -- she was previously at McCann-Erickson -- Sally also works on projects as a member of the Momorobo Collective (Singapore/Shanghai). Recently, Sally was the only Chinese artist selected by Australia's YEN Magazine to receive a 2009 Curvy Artist honor.
Miguel Udaondo
Age: 34Fighting out of: Madrid, Spain
Dojo: Evasee
Website: www.evasee.com
Hailing from Spain, Miguel started his creative career as a graphic designer and illustrator for the Men's Department at fashion label Zara. In addition to his design work, Miguel also likes to paint murals, adorn sneakers, and play music. He's responsible for http://weblog.evasee.com, which is a good read (for English AND Spanish readers).
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Weight Class: 3D
Elttilz Lau
Age: 26Fighting out of: Shanghai, China
Dojo: Elttilz Studio
Website: www.elttilzstudio.com
"A digital designer with 4 eyes and 7 fingers and 10 photos and some ideas."
Mkay.
Saka Yang
Age: 26Fighting out of: Shanghai, China
Dojo: Oriental Sun
Website: http://saka99.spaces.live.com
Saka's passion for architecture inspires his design and photography projects. From a young age, Saka has loved games and toys; six years ago, he moved from building Legos to building 3D models, and he hasn't looked back since.
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Weight Class: Motion Design
Maxime Depondt
Age: 29Fighting out of: Paris, France
Dojo: Make Me
Website: www.makemegroup.com
Upon arriving in Shanghai three years ago, Maxime worked for various clients before founding Make Me with business partner Harauld "Ox" Sextus. At Cut&Paste, Maxime will be representing Make Me and showing off their design dexterity: "Get ready for the show, this is Design with a capital D."
Motion sample here: www.makemegroup.com
Steven Jong aka Jiang Yunsheng
Age: 26Fighting out of: Fushun, China
Dojo: iPart.cn
Website: www.jongart.cn
Steven fell into design by default. A less-than-stellar student in high school, his gaokao marks landed him in a technical school rather than a top university. He soon realized, however, that this was a blessing in disguise. ¡°I was lucky. I got exposed to art and design rather than just the dogma-like, technical know-how, like the star students. My degree is ¡®cheaper¡¯ than an university one, but it worked out much better.¡± In design school, he discovered a love of art that combines music and action, which is why, today, he works as an interactive designer.
Motion sample here: http://www.vimeo.com/3817932
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The Cut&Paste Design Tournament is this Saturday, May 23. Doors are at 6:30pm, and it gets underway at 7pm. Tickets are 120rmb at the door (80rmb for students). That includes the competition and entry to the after-party at Yuyintang hosted by FREE THE WAX and featuring FREE THE ROBOTS -- not just a sterling electronic act, but also an ideo-political stance I think we can all get behind.
The official Cut&Paste site is here.
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