I finally wrapped up Cut & Paste, the international digital design tournament that I brought to Portland this past Friday, September 21st.
It has been a project that started over a year ago with my soliciting the Executive Director to produce this iron-chef-like design battle in Portland as had been done in NY, Chicago, LA and San Francisco. With my persuasion we put Portland on the 2007 tour among other cities such as Tokyo, London, & Berlin. I led the Portland team and headed up the design and communications effort. Friday night we had 8 designers competing, 5 judges judging, 2 DJs jamming, 1 MC flowing, OVER 700 audience members cheering, and 1 very excited stage manager (me). The house was packed; portlanders came out in full force to witness this event for the first time in their hometown. The designers all did a fantastic job, and it overall was a huge success!

Above- 2 of the champion, Tim May’s 15-minute masterpieces.

Special thanks to the esteemed judging panel featured above: Eric Lawrence, Ziba; Jason Bacon, UNKL; Kristan Kennedy, PICA; Josh Berge, PLAZM; Jose Cabaco, W+K.

And of course the 8 contestants: William Elliot; Jake Hollomon; Mike Henderson; Crystal Beasley; Tim May (the winner); Lap Le; Eric Sellers; Kris Kanaly