EVENT: Cut & Paste 2009

This past weekend (21.03.2009) I stopped in on "Cut & Paste 2009", an annual worldwide design competition. 4 designers are pre-selected, given a theme and 15 minutes to produce work.  2D, 3D and Video competitions were held.

Some great work was produced. As an audience member, the most interesting aspects where the individual workflows and directions taken by each artist. Some designs were very similar, begging the question of how a 'theme' also implies a given resolution... but in other cases the end results were wildly different. 

If nothing else, I can safely say that I am much, MUCH slower in CS4/Max than any of the contestants. Perhaps my office should start giving us restricted 'clock time' for our projects: "Design the vertical circulation in 15 minutes!" "Egress diagrams, go!"... every working day becomes a series of 32 15min design charrettes. 

Script: Old pattern, new colors

A B+W version of this had been my background for some time. Needing some time away from monocromatic themes, I added a few bits of code for random color values and re-ran the script.

int R = int(random(100,255));

int G = int(random(100,255));

int B = int(random(100,255));

fill(R,G,B,90);

10000x itterations shown above.

Script: It's been a long week.

A colleague of mine spent some time really, really trying to get a certain facade pattern into a project some months back. The studies were great, but the concept didn't end up impacting the design. Apparently it impacted me, and I've oft thought about how to replicate/study/iterate upon the idea.

Frames #00000001, #00001000, #00359000 follow.